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Bengt Karlsson’s Review of “Living with Oil & Coal” by Dolly Kikon

Book Review of the Week, Book Reviews / Prabhu Guptara

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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A Word About Our Pompous Bishops

Columns / Dr. Valson Thampu

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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Yet Another Thought About COVID

Columns / Dr. Valson Thampu

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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When a Prime Minister Weeps.

Columns / Dr. Valson Thampu

Though most people do not dare to say so in public, the citizens of India, who are largely not involved in politics, felt unconvinced by the public display of sadness by the Prime Minister at the vast toll that the pandemic has taken on our sisters and brothers. Many felt that his seemed a less

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BOOK REVIEW: THE WORLD BENEATH THEIR FEET BY SCOTT ELLSWORTH

Columns / Avay Shukla

My review of this book was published in THE TRIBUNE on April 4, 2021. It is a fascinating account of the attempts made to conquer the ten highest peaks in the Himalaya in the last century. The article/ review is reproduced below. Avay Shukla “This is a book about the mountains. But it is

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MR. MODI MAY CONTINUE TO RULE, BUT CAN HE GOVERN ?

Columns / Avay Shukla

If Bal Narendra had spent some more time in school instead of rushing off to sell tea at a railway station which did not even exist at that time, he would have imbibed some wisdom from a couple of old adages: Don’t burn your bridges behind you because you may need them again tomorrow, and, Be courteous to

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SUNRISE IN PURANIKOTI

Columns / Avay Shukla

A new dawn in Puranikoti The sun doesn’t just rise in my village of Puranikoti ( 7000 feet, pop 190 ) – it explodes. One

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LEST WE FORGET

Columns / Avay Shukla

At the entrance to the Hall of Remembrance in the US Holocaust Memorial, Washington, the following words are inscribed: GUARD YOURSELF AND GUARD YOUR SOUL CAREFULLY LEST YOU FORGET THE THINGS YOUR EYES SAW. The Jews in France have a shorter version of this exhortation: N’OUBLIONS PAS or LEST WE FORGET. The Jews have a long memory. It’s time

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“The Rain-Maiden and the Bear-Man” by Easterine Kire

Book review of the Month, Book Reviews / Prabhu Guptara

Easterine Kire, the prize-winning Indian novelist from Nagaland, has provided us a lovely collection of short stories through The Rain-Maiden and the Bear-Man, accompanied by beautiful colour illustrations by graphic artist Sunandini Banerjee. The title-story concerns a man who, though blessed with the love of the beautiful Rain-Maiden, is captive to the sadly common male

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