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Father of Indian unrest
3 months ago

Father of Indian unrest

New Indian Express  

How did Tilak’s upbringing in Konkan shape his activism and political ideology? Tilak’s political ideology came from his growing-up years, his deep reading of global history and current affairs, and the sense of Indianness that he had right from childhood because of his early reading of old Sanskrit texts, and of Hindu and Buddhist philosophy. In Gandhi, whom Tilak met …

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India should read writing on the wall about troop presence in the Maldives
1 year, 1 month ago

India should read writing on the wall about troop presence in the Maldives

China Daily  

Mohamed Muizzu, the newly elected president of Maldives speaks during his inauguration ceremony in Male, Maldives November 17, 2023. Maldivian President Mohamed Muizzu said last week, shortly after taking the oath of office, that he would ensure no foreign troops are stationed in the country to safeguard the country's sovereignty. Muizzu did not name India directly, but considering that only …

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Disunited we stand
1 year, 4 months ago

Disunited we stand

India Today  

Ten years ago, many Indians and foreigners were busily laying down principles for Indian writing in English, or hatching theories about it. Would you even include Jhumpa Lahiri in the category of Indian writing, given that she has spent so little time in India and sets nearly all her stories on the East Coast of America? In desperation, category-makers and …

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The Hindu on Books | Shashi Tharoor and Ankur Warikoo on writing, C. Rangarajan on the economy, Ullas Karanth among tigers and more
2 years ago

The Hindu on Books | Shashi Tharoor and Ankur Warikoo on writing, C. Rangarajan on the economy, Ullas Karanth among tigers and more

The Hindu  

This article forms a part of The Hindu on Books newsletter which brings you book reviews, reading recommendations, interviews with authors and more. They In reviews, we read the former Reserve Bank of India Governor’s memoir and a prescription on the economy, a book on tiger conservation, snapshots from past FIFA World Cups and more. Review of C. Rangarajan’s Forks …

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The Indian Law Institute CLEA-MILAT Research Mentoring Programme (RMP) 2022
2 years, 2 months ago

The Indian Law Institute CLEA-MILAT Research Mentoring Programme (RMP) 2022

Live Law  

The Indian Law Institute is pleased to announce "The Indian Law Institute CLEA-MILAT Research Mentoring Programme 2022". The Research Mentoring Programme envisions equipping the young educators and researchers with skills that will enable them to contribute towards enhancing the legal education and research. The RMP would provide ample opportunity for young teachers and researchers not only to get hands-on experience …

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Nandana Sen: When I was growing up, my mother was the superstar in our family
2 years, 4 months ago

Nandana Sen: When I was growing up, my mother was the superstar in our family

Hindustan Times  

We had been translating together for decades before Acrobat came into the picture. It was called Make Up Your Mind: 25 Poems About Choice, and was brought out by iUniverse as a bilingual edition with Ma’s poems in Bangla and my English translations alongside. Most of the poems that I had chosen for that book were taken from Ma’s latest …

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Don movie review: Sivakarthikeyan's well-intentioned film is bogged down by commercial clichés
2 years, 7 months ago

Don movie review: Sivakarthikeyan's well-intentioned film is bogged down by commercial clichés

Firstpost  

Language: Tamil Imagine a mix of Three Idiots and Santhosh Subramaniam, with a dash of Vinnaithaandi Varuvaaya? A perennially stifled Chakravarthy tries hard to break the cycle, but like most Indian students end up in an engineering college – where he tries to figure out what he is good at. For example, the film’s main two ‘villains’ are Chakravarthy’s father …

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Essay: Where does a writer go when the streets are stolen?
4 years, 4 months ago

Essay: Where does a writer go when the streets are stolen?

Hindustan Times  

Where does a young writer – say someone in their late teens or early twenties – go for inspiration today? The idea of building a credit history through social “likes,” experiencing non-heteronormative desire through video-games avatars, the persona of a dead loved one reconstructed from their history of online behaviour – all seem out there but not quite, absurd-but-on-the-verge-of-the-real, a …

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