2200 words approx. EXCERPTED FROM DIGESTING INDIA—(published in the UK/US as “The Great Indian Food Trip”) by Zac O’Yeah ‘Welcome to Bihar,’ says the student who wants to shake my hand as soon as the train rolls into Patna Junction, the modern incarnation of Pataliputra, the once-upon-a-time headquarters of Mauryan civilisation. ‘I hope you’ll come […]
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I have little or no sympathy for those doubting Thomases who continue to question the stupendous growth of our economy-such people should be packed off to one of the coral reefs around the Great Nicobar, which shall soon be ground to dust once the mega-crony project there takes off; it will serve them right. For
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ISBN: 9780567710253 (pp. 208); T&T Clark (Bloomsbury Publishing) “Hindu and Catholic, Priest and Scholar: A Love Story” (2024) Memoir of Francis X. Clooney, S.J. “Hindu and Catholic, Priest and Scholar: A Love Story” is the extraordinary memoir of Francis X. Clooney, S.J., the Parkman Professor of Divinity and Professor of Comparative Theology, Harvard Divinity School,
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I was at the centre of a Venn diagram. One circle held friends from school and college, all from different communities..The other circle I belonged to was a Goan Catholic community, which shaped who I am. — Michelle Mendonça Bambawale By Selma Carvalho Michelle Mendonça Bambawale is an environmental activist, educator, photographer and
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A review of Betrayed by Hope, a play-script by Namita Gokhale and Malashri Lal, delves into the tumultuous life of Michael Madhusudan Dutt. Based on his letters, this genre-bending work brings to life the complex intersections of art, culture, and colonialism in 19th-century Bengal. What does it mean to resuscitate, in art, a life
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THE PERPETUAL OUTSIDER I first heard of Mani Shankar Aiyar sometime in 1990 when I was serving with Mr. I.K. Gujral, the Minister of External Affairs in V.P. Singh’s government. The Pakistan Foreign Minster had called on Mr. Gujral at South Block and they were reminiscing over old times when the conversation turned to Indian
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As I don’t have a copy of Ezekiel’s book, The Unfinished Man, I asked a friend who has a sort of “Ezekiel collection” if he has a copy of this book. Just received word from him that he does. That made me want to find out how many copies of this book are in public libraries
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Arundhati Roy was recently awarded the PEN Pinter Prize 2024. At the same time, several powerful individuals in her home country called for her to be convicted under anti-terror legislation. The charge? A comment in 2010 during a conference where Roy stated that Kashmir was never an integral part of India. So is Roy a
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In his seminal and thought provoking book, HOMO DEUS, Yuval Noah Harari has some very interesting observations about mankind’s quest for immortality. He postulates that, having triumphed over starvation (famines), disease (plagues) and violence (war),- the primary cause of deaths over the centuries- mankind in the 21st and 22nd centuries will strive to conquer death
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