The Hindu On Books newsletter: About a Meta block, three books on Gaza, the legacy of K.K. Kochu and more
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The Hindu On Books newsletter: About a Meta block, three books on Gaza, the legacy of K.K. Kochu and more

The Hindu  

Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter. Also, The World After Gaza has very little to offer about the world after Gaza – it’s almost entirely about the world before Gaza.” Two other books, Antony Loewenstein’s The Palestine Laboratory and Raja Shehadeh’s What Does Israel Fear from Palestine?, argue that Israel “can kill and maim with impunity” because it is a friend of the West. “Nigah writes with a keen awareness of socio-cultural undercurrents, addressing not only individual experiences but the collective journey of women.” We Do Not Part, Han Kang’s latest novel to be translated into English by e. Yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris, looks back at a dark chapter of South Korean history, the Jeju Island massacre of 1948. It includes among others Ashokamitran’s ‘Harmonium’, translated by N. Kalyan Raman, ‘The Breaking of a Story’ by Sundara Ramaswamy translated by Janani Kannan, ‘The Horsewoman’ by Ambai, translated by G.J.V. Prasad, Perumal Murugan’s ‘The Blouse’, translated by N. Kalyan Raman, Charu Nivedita’s ‘Cycle’, translated by Nandini Krishnan and others.

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review of Pankaj Mishra’s The World After Gaza
1 week, 3 days ago

review of Pankaj Mishra’s The World After Gaza

The Hindu  

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting,” Milan Kundera wrote in The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. “But when does organised remembrance become a handmaiden to brute power, and legitimiser of violence and injustice?” asks Pankaj Mishra in his latest book The World After Gaza. ; and the racially exclusive network of shiny asphalt …

Pankaj Mishra on Gaza, and the ‘emotional bonding’ between India and Israel
1 month, 1 week ago

Pankaj Mishra on Gaza, and the ‘emotional bonding’ between India and Israel

Live Mint  

Pankaj Mishra wrote his new book, The World After Gaza, in the aftermath of the attack on Israel by the Palestinian nationalist organisation Hamas on 7 October 2023. As one of Palestine’s leading writers, Raja Shehadeh, points out, the Ashkenazi Jews of European stock have historically looked down on the Mizrahi Jews, or “Arab Jews", creating a simmering tension within …

Interview | Gaza is Not Simply About the Israeli Regime’s Eliminationist Racism: Pankaj Mishra
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Interview | Gaza is Not Simply About the Israeli Regime’s Eliminationist Racism: Pankaj Mishra

The Hindu  

Published : Feb 06, 2025 14:42 IST - 13 MINS READ Pankaj Mishra’s latest book, The World after Gaza, looks at the recent Gaza conflict—where Israel unleashed violence on Gaza following the terror attack by Hamas on October 7, 2023—in a larger context. Mishra’s book also looks at a less remarked aspect of this highly visible and largely ignored genocidal …

'Hindutva Inciting Violence Against Muslims': Iltija Mufti Triggers Row, BJP Demands Apology
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3 months, 2 weeks ago

'Hindutva Inciting Violence Against Muslims': Iltija Mufti Triggers Row, BJP Demands Apology

ABP News  

PDP Chief Mehbooba Mufti's daughter Iltija said on Sunday that 'Hindutva' is a disease which is tarnishing Hinduism by inciting "lynching and persecution" of minorities, particularly Muslims, and the BJP is leveraging it to consolidate its vote bank. Today Hinduism also finds itself in a similar situation where it’s being used & abused to… — Iltija Mufti December 8, 2024 …

The hype backfires: India’s surprise vote result
9 months, 2 weeks ago

The hype backfires: India’s surprise vote result

Al Jazeera  

The surprise election result in India leaves the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi missing a chunk of voter support and at the helm of a tricky coalition. Will this new configuration loosen the screws on Indian media and give them space to reinvest in journalism rather than the sycophancy that dominated the airwaves so much of the time this …

The View From India | Unending brutality
1 year ago

The View From India | Unending brutality

The Hindu  

Over the last five months, Israel has persisted with its bloody war on Gaza, mowing down citizens without any consequence yet. “This war should be brought to end immediately, and aid allowed into Gaza without any ifs and buts,” The Hindu’s recent editorial said. “A close analysis of India’s voting record at the UN, post-October 7, and the statements made …

Opinion: Here’s what the mass violence in Gaza looks like to a scholar of genocide
1 year, 4 months ago

Opinion: Here’s what the mass violence in Gaza looks like to a scholar of genocide

LA Times  

I cannot stop thinking about the dozens of Israeli children held in captivity by Hamas and the Islamic Jihad in underground tunnels in Gaza, while above them Israel’s attack has killed, so far, nearly 4,500 Palestinian children. Shirts printed by Israeli army units have depicted pregnant Palestinian women and children as military targets; calls of “death to the Arabs” have …

Genocide in Gaza: A call to urgent global action
1 year, 4 months ago

Genocide in Gaza: A call to urgent global action

Al Jazeera  

A week into Israel’s war on Gaza, 800 eminent scholars and practitioners of law sounded the alarm about an imminent genocide in the territory. Israel has put Gaza under complete siege, with “no electricity, no food, no water, no gas”, as declared by Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant. “You must remember what Amalek did to you, says our Holy Bible,” …

View From India | India walks the line on the Israel-Hamas war
1 year, 5 months ago

View From India | India walks the line on the Israel-Hamas war

The Hindu  

One week on from the horrific terrorist attack by Hamas – the worst in Israel’s history that has claimed more than 1,300 lives – Israel Defence Forces readied for a possible ground invasion of Gaza even as they continued with air strikes amid a worsening humanitarian catastrophe. India’s diplomatic response has been three-fold: unequivocally criticising the terror attack by Hamas; …

View From India | A deadly escalation
1 year, 5 months ago

View From India | A deadly escalation

The Hindu  

Just as the world celebrated scientists and thinkers who bagged the Nobel prize last week, Israel witnessed the largest attack from Gaza on Saturday morning in what is possibly the country’s worst security crisis in half a century.Dozens of Hamas militants, using motorcycles, pickup trucks, boats, paragliders, and mid-range rockets, launched a highly coordinated attack, infiltrating Israeli cities, hitting military …

'Indian Muslims never supported violence': IAS officer on Israel-Palestine conflict
1 year, 5 months ago

'Indian Muslims never supported violence': IAS officer on Israel-Palestine conflict

Hindustan Times  

Amid social media debate over the support of Indian Muslims to Palestine in the fresh escalation of the Israel-Palestine conflict on Saturday, Muslim IAS officer Shah Faesal said humanity is above religion and as terrorism did not help anyone ever, it won't help Palestine either. Read | ‘We stand ready’: Joe Biden's support for Israel amid attack and a warning …

Spiralling violence: The Hindu Editorial on the West Bank
1 year, 9 months ago

Spiralling violence: The Hindu Editorial on the West Bank

The Hindu  

An Israeli raid in Jenin with combat helicopters that killed seven Palestinians; a gun attack by two Palestinians at an Israeli settlement in Eli that killed four; and a rampage of an Arab village by Israeli settlers in which one Palestinian was killed and several others injured — the occupied West Bank witnessed a sharp escalation in violence this week …

Book Review: ‘Hostile Homelands’ by Azad Essa offers insights into the politics of Zionism and Hindutva
1 year, 9 months ago

Book Review: ‘Hostile Homelands’ by Azad Essa offers insights into the politics of Zionism and Hindutva

The Hindu  

Published : Jun 15, 2023 11:00 IST - 7 MINS READ In November 1947, when the United Nations General Assembly voted on a resolution to partition Palestine into a Jewish state, an Arab state, and an international city, India, along with Pakistan and the Arab bloc, voted against it. What is going on in Palestine today cannot be justified by …

Why Indian Hindutva supporters back Israel on Gaza bombing
3 years, 10 months ago

Why Indian Hindutva supporters back Israel on Gaza bombing

Al Jazeera  

As Israel faces criticism for its bombing of Gaza, it has received support from India’s Hindutva supporters. Hashtags such as #ISupportIsrael, #IndiaWithIsrael, #IndiaStandsWithIsrael and #IsrealUnderFire have trended on Indian social media over the past week, many calling Palestinians “terrorists” – a term used by Israel for Palestinian resistance groups. The evolution of India’s Palestine policy goes back to pre-independence days …

Israel-Palestine conflict: India condemns violence in Israel, Gaza, calls for immediate de-escalation
3 years, 10 months ago

Israel-Palestine conflict: India condemns violence in Israel, Gaza, calls for immediate de-escalation

Op India  

During an open debate on the Middle East situation, Ambassador T S Tirumurti, India’s Permanent Representative to the UN told the United Nations Security Council, condemned indiscriminate firing of rockets from Gaza targeting the civilian population of Israel. India also condemned the retaliatory strikes into Gaza which have caused suffering and resulted into deaths, including that of women and children. …

From ghar wapsi to PK 'protests': Hindutva mob violence is also terrorism
10 years, 2 months ago

From ghar wapsi to PK 'protests': Hindutva mob violence is also terrorism

Firstpost  

Mob violence is to radical Hindutva groups what guns and grenades are to the revolutionary Left. The extolling of Nathuram Godse as well as the Sangh Parivar’s menacing campaign on ghar wapsi and love jihad should persuade the Indian state to slot rightwing violence in the category of terrorism. This discourse describes terrorism as actions which question the state’s monopoly …

India’s forgotten solidarity with Palestine
10 years, 7 months ago

India’s forgotten solidarity with Palestine

Al Jazeera  

In the face of troublingly muted international criticism of Israel’s relentless recent assaults on the corralled civilian populace of Gaza, the United Nations Human Rights Commission managed to pass a resolution to launch a probe into possible Israeli human rights violations. Influential right-wing pundits shouted that India’s “pro-Palestine” vote was “disgraceful” since the nation’s strategic interests lay in supporting Israel …

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