Culinary conversations around Eid, which is being celebrated this weekend, are almost always dominated by paeans in praise of fragrant Eid ki biryani and sevaiyan. There can be no doubt that these are festive favourites but they are not as […]
Anew book will dwell on Maharashtra’s history and evolution from a rich past to the modern times and list its enormous contribution to the tapestry of the country’s culture and thought. In “Shivaji in South Block: The Unwritten History of […]
By Yasser Latif Hamdani Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) is widely acknowledged to be the unquestionable leader of the Independence Movement, credited with, quite unfairly, of having driven out the British singlehandedly. This is an abiding myth as is the saintly […]
India, the country of contrasting colours had always been a home to many cultures, religions, races, and economic and social classes. The country wrongfully famous for snake charmers and elephants had given some of the best mathematicians, astronomers and physicists […]
“Subaltern Studies”, founded in 1982 by a group of historians of India, has now established itself as an internationally recognised school of history. Its most famous article was published a few years later and simply titled “Can the Subaltern Speak?” […]
Paul Baran, an eminent Marxist historian, in one of his earlier essays draws a distinction between what he calls an “intellectual worker” and an “intellectual” in reference to social scientists. The former, according to Baran, is one who uses his […]
By PS NISSIM We’ve all seen those classical music shows: the voice, the tabla, the sitar in the spotlight, the player lost in the performance, the accompanists embellishing the rhythm. Lost from view, however, are the efforts of many others […]
While the latest coronavirus pandemic rages across the world, India has been no exception to its march. To contain the spread of COVID-19, the Narendra Modi government invoked the 1897 Epidemic Diseases Act which the Britishers had framed to deal […]
By Robin Gomes, The 90th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s famous Salt March is being observed these days. Also known as the Dandi March, after the place where it ended, the march was an important event in the nonviolent civil disobedience […]
Though census across the globe is a tool for data collection to facilitate demographic study and application of the economic and social development aimed at overall national growth and prosperity, instances of exceptional abuses may not be unknown. India has […]
