Tamil Dalit Feminist Poetics: Resistance, Power and Solidarity (Rowman and Littlefield, 2024). ISBN 978-1-66692-132-8 193 pp Fundamental to our understanding of Dalit feminist poetics in Tamil Nadu is our recognition of the influence of Periyar, Iyothee Thass, and Ambedkar on Dalit writing. Periyar’s strident voice decrying untouchability and espousing a radical feminism and atheist philosophy […]
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Himachal is gradually slipping into a financial sink-hole, with a debt of Rs.85000 crore and almost 60% of its annual budget going to pay just employees’ salaries/pensions and debt servicing. The Union government, for vindictive political reasons, is further nudging it into the hole by denying it almost Rs.9000 crores of PDNA (Post Disaster National
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[DAWN, 9 Jan., 2025] To reassemble the origins of Pakistan, one needs time, money and luck. Collectors of deltiology (the study and collection of postcards) need all three to make sense of Pakistan’s jigsaw chronology. Our country’s visual history is a scattered puzzle, with pieces that are 5,000 years old with an undeciphered alphabet, a
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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