Despatches from a neglected past
The question of moving away from established “mainstream” history has been gaining traction in recent years. A spate of successful ...
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The question of moving away from established “mainstream” history has been gaining traction in recent years. A spate of successful ...
Read moreDetailsThe question of ideology in Indian politics has been debated and dismissed for a long time. Writing for the New ...
Read moreDetailsThe best of literature is often hidden away in regional languages. It is by sheer luck that sometimes we get ...
Read moreDetailsAnwesh Satpathy In a review of Satyajit Ray’s ‘Apur Sansar’ (The World of Apu), the critic Dwight MacDonald castigated Ray ...
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In any democracy, the most disturbing threat to freedom is not always censorship. Sometimes it is the language used to...
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By Dilip Cherian India’s bureaucracy may be running short of one thing more important than babus: succession. The Centre’s decision...
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A colossal tragedy on a sea has given fillip to ultra-right politics in Italy, Germany and the UK. The three...
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Police used water cannons, lobbed tear gas shells, and lathi-charged job aspirants as they breached barricades multiple times on 10...
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