Mythology forms a large part of the BJP-RSS combine’s world view ( such as it is), and the TINA (There Is No Alternative ) myth is an important part of it. TINA is, predictably, the last refuge of the government’s supporters who have now run out of money, oxygen, jobs, Remdesiver, vaccines, doctored statistics and […]
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In which category do we, dear reader, include the work that our mothers and wives do at home? Skilled or unskilled? Perhaps, in neither; for the reason that we take it for granted. My experience is quite different. The first time I got into the kitchen to make a cup of tea for myself, I
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Some say Fr. Stan Swami is a ‘torch-bearer of the Indian Constitution’. The government says, he is an instigator of violence, an anarchist who conspires, in tandem with the Maoists, to overthrow the government. As per Aristotle, the truth should lie in- between. What lies in-between in this case is that he was a sympathiser
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Jesus emphasized the importance of seeing things in perspective. That is what he meant when he asked us to mind the beam in our eyes. If you have a beam in your eye, what you can’t do is to see issues aright. When the Jews conspired, led by the priests, to kill Jesus, they believed
There’s Something Beyond the Law The tails are up in church circles that a legal victory has been won. A favourable High Court verdict has been secured. Long-standing injustice is corrected. Frankly, I am neither convinced nor impressed. Rather, I am disappointed. Of course I believe in equality. I believe in justice. But I also
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I am essentially a ” dhaba ” man. Give me a choice between a good, clean dhaba on a highway and a fancy restaurant and I shall plump for the former every time, even if you are paying the bill! This is not a reverse snobbishness, or my inability to decipher “Potatoes Dauphinoise” or ”
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Foothills. Such a lovely word. It signals an elusive geography—neither high-altitude mountains, nor flatlands or plains. As we learned from postcolonial theorists like Homi K Bhabha and Edward Said, foothills have that quality of the creative in-between space where differences can flourish. In anthropologist Dolly Kikon’s masterly crafted book Living with Oil & Coal: Resource Politics
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I have been asked by many on different occasions and diverse places about the spiritual meaning and significance of the mitre of our bishops and thirumenis. They are confused because they find no warrant for this in the New Testament, which is the basis for the Christian faith. Then from where did this come? Well,
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COVID is a physical pandemic. We are all concerned and anxious about it. But the surprising thing is that we are not mindful of the MORAL PANDEMIC that has been raging in our midst for long. In the long run, the latter is more destructive than the former. Let me highlight only one aspect of
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