Other day, I was taking a lecture on gender violence and trauma when the hand of a student went up to speak. She was from Kashmir valley she said and wanted to make a comment on what I had said on …
Why Some Books are Rejected, the Silence of Higher Ups and the Unknown Reader
The book on Delhi Riots has been withdrawn by Bloomsbury after facing controversy. This should not surprise us. It is also perhaps for the first time that such a thing is happening. No books after a …
5th August 2020 – A Day of Independence From Fear
On 5th August 2020, perhaps for the first time, in the history of India, by building the Ram Mandir, the Hindu community may finally be said to reclaim something it has never done before from the …
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When Our Ancestors And Our Past Speaks To Us
I often get an uncanny feeling, an intuition that our ancestors are watching us from heaven. They want us to understand what they went through during the thousand years of slavery and colonialism. …
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Why We Should Dream Again..…Now?
Is India trying to dream today? A society, after centuries of indecision and wavering, is it trying to rise and do what its people haven’t done, in rising above being a slave? Why should Indians …