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Jagdeep Dhankhar: First draft of Indian history written by colonisers with distorted perspective
2 months, 1 week ago

Jagdeep Dhankhar: First draft of Indian history written by colonisers with distorted perspective

The Hindu  

Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Monday said it was a travesty that the ignorant were trying to make us aware of inclusivity by their narrow-minded approach. He also said that the first draft of the country's history came through colonisers' distorted perspective. He asserted that the philosophical schools of Vedanta, Jainism, Buddhism and others have always encouraged dialogue and co-existence …

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Christmas 2022: Why do we sing Christmas carols? Know history and significance
2 years, 3 months ago

Christmas 2022: Why do we sing Christmas carols? Know history and significance

Hindustan Times  

The English term ‘Christmas’ has a fairly recent origin and translates as ‘mass on Christ’s day’ while different countries across the globe have different names for this celebration - in Germany it is referred to as ‘Yuletide’ which may have been derived from the Germanic jōl or the Anglo-Saxon geōl, in Spanish it is referred to as Navidad, Natale in …

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In conversation with Shubhangi Swarup
5 years, 1 month ago

In conversation with Shubhangi Swarup

The Hindu  

Shubhangi Swarup’s debut novel, Latitudes of Longing — acclaimed as the “novel of the year” by its publisher, HarperCollins — has been getting rave reviews ever since its publication in 2018. One of the first Indian novels to engage with environmental changes, Latitudes of Longing features nature as a living, heaving entity. P arts of the novel were written in …

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Editorial:: California’s story was written with Native American blood. Let’s finally admit it
5 years, 9 months ago

Editorial:: California’s story was written with Native American blood. Let’s finally admit it

LA Times  

Assemblyman James Ramos of the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians opens a meeting with tribal leaders attended by Gov. until the Indian race becomes extinct.” Ben Madley, a scholar of Native American history at UCLA, calls it “genocide” and estimates that between 1846 and 1873, about 80% of the state’s Native Americans died from disease, starvation and murder. California …

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The Stories in My Life: Isaac Bashevis Singer's story set in Warsaw just before WWII explores complex ideas with simplicity
5 years, 11 months ago

The Stories in My Life: Isaac Bashevis Singer's story set in Warsaw just before WWII explores complex ideas with simplicity

Firstpost  

There are stories, read long ago, which live on in the backrooms of the mind, becoming perennial furnishings of our mental lives, refusing to fade even after the passage of decades. ‘They would come to class, wearing their gold-embroidered fraternity caps… always ready to provoke a fight.’ They even looked all of a kind, all true to type, ‘- as …

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The plural and the singular
11 years, 11 months ago

The plural and the singular

The Hindu  

WHENEVER I think of the concept of “Indian” literature, a story retold by A.K. These common features must have inspired the famous statement by S. Radhakrishnan popularised by the Sahitya Akademi: “Indian Literature is one even while written in different languages.” One problem with this approach is that it is reductive and tends to standardise all the literatures of India …

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Babri demolition: How HC verdict discredited 'eminent' historians
12 years, 3 months ago

Babri demolition: How HC verdict discredited 'eminent' historians

Firstpost  

By R Vaidyanathan It runs to more than 8,000 pages and it contains is a marvelous set of documents on the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri case. Suvira Jaiswal says: “Whatever knowledge I gained with respect to the disputed site is based on newspaper reports or what others told.” She also confessed that she “prepared a report on the Babri dispute after reading …

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