Popular history had us all believe that it was because of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi that India is independent today. But the truth lies buried away deep, and purposely too, by those who find it difficult to digest. Bose or Gandhi: […]
The judicial verdict on Section 377 in September 2018, which decriminalised mutual consent homosexual sex, has spurred things in the right direction. “However, a lot more needs to be done,” says Suresh Ramdas, Mr Gay World India 2019, who will […]
Sometime in early November 1919, a resident of Bombay got into a city tram. The new entrant, a street sweeper (or halalkhor, a caste name used in Bombay to indicate occupation), sat down next to another passenger. But there was […]
In a scene from Randeep Maddoke’s documentary film Landless, a woman is drinking tea from a metallic dish. After she is done, she picks up a handful of the soil and with it wipes its insides clean. The scene, enmeshed […]
Kolkata: On Sunday evening, April 7, Begum Hazrat Mahal of Awadh was remembered at the Sibtainabad Imambara built by her husband Nawab Wajid Ali Shah as Shamm-e-Azadi on her 140th death anniversary. The program was jointly organised by Social harmony […]
There is every reason every citizen of India must watch Reason Anand Patwardhan’s Reason, (Vivek) his latest documentary has a running footage of 242 minutes, trimmed down from its original version of 260 minutes – the prints that were screened […]
“The Twice-Born,” a new memoir by Aatish Taseer, is troubled by a single plaintive question: Does a city steeped in tradition have a future in modern India? The setting is Benares, the spiritual capital of Hinduism, where more than five […]
On 12 January, the Indian constitution was amended through the 103rd Constitutional Amendment to introduce a reservation of up to 10 percent in government jobs and educational institutions for “economically weaker sections” of citizens. The pool of eligible citizens excludes […]
Over the past few months of 2018, the 27-year-old Dalit youth from Basai Babas village in Hathras district of western UP, has shot off letters to every government office-bearer, from the local police inspector to the state director general of […]
Fiction authors Michelle de Kretser and Roanna Gonsalves will headline a Writing Contemporary Australia event on Thursday. michelle_de_kretser_roanna_gonsalves.jpg Authors Michelle de Kretser (left) and Roanna Gonsalves. Photos: Mayu Kanamori, Kathy Luu. UNSW Writer-in-Residence Roanna Gonsalves believes that reading fiction is […]
