“I feel so ashamed of what has happened in Manipur. I feel devalued as a human being thinking over what the men did to the girls.” One of my students said to me. “In fact my father said we all should …
A Visit to the Four Museums in Red Fort
After covering the last museum in Red Fort meant for the revolutionaries of India, I sat down for a cup of tea when my attention was drawn to a young boy in his teens talking to his father. “Papa, …
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When A Nation Takes A Leap
The White man wrote history with the help of his texts. The rest of the world, many of whom he enslaved and whose history he tried to erase, have tried to build it around sacred symbols, sometimes as …
A Healing and Reconciliation Narrative After the Gujarat Riots
It was a phone call from National Human Rights Commission one afternoon in March 2002. “Would your organization be interested in providing trauma counselling and therapy to children and adolescents in …
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Why the ‘Veer Bal Divas’ Will Usher a New Era for India?
Several years ago, a colleague, a sociologist, after going through the list of local festivals and the reasons for following them had mentioned, “Yours is the broadest range of festivals depicting all …
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Dogs, British Empire and a Legacy Followed Till This Day
The British saw little difference between dogs and Indians except on one count. It was the degree of loyalty that they exhibited towards them. Loyalty was the supreme value that the white man relished …
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