What I took home from Shaheen Bagh
I was standing in midst of hundreds, warm and unthreatened in the middle of the year’s coldest night. 20 years, and that day I felt the unbreakable spine of women.
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A love letter – ‘The Last Mughal’ by Dalrymple
Mughal Delhi was like a lost gem. It was destined to create an impact on him that was more profound than on most teenagers
Manmohan Singh, PV Narasimha Rao, and times that mattered
Simply put, I feel that these reforms and the adopted paths have helped pizzas and burgers reach the Indian shores rather than ensuring that basic food grains reach the mouths of the hungry poor
SWOT analysis of National Education Policy 2020
Although the policy has emphasized a lot of positives, the biggest challenge ahead of the government is the nationwide implementation and achieving the learning outcomes
The Awkward Bourgeois: Role of the Armchair Critic in Neoliberal Democracy
Of late, the middle class has increasingly sought to influence national agenda and policies through new forms of citizens’ activism.
Scientific Temper and the New Education Policy 2020
What counts as ‘evidence’ in the NEP’s vision of “inculcating scientific temper with evidence based thinking”?
My journey in Sabha, the multilingual theatre society of St. Stephen’s
The English Theatre society Shakespeare Sabha is one of the oldest societies in the country. It has always done English, and Shakespeare plays. We, as a multilingual theatre society, separated from it sometime in 2008. It was really difficult for us to create a separate identity of our own.
Could COVID save the single-screen theater?
For a decade, the Indian movie theater has been dying by inches thanks to the twin evils of rising ticket prices, and increasing Internet streaming rights purchase prices
Friendship and Atonement: Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner
The situations and experiences of The Kite Runner look real, the reactions look natural and the consequences look authentic.
Rethinking Secularism
The Indian version of secularism signified the peaceful co‑ existence of religious communities and a creative interaction between various traditions.
Are we caged? Are we free?
In using our language now we’re ashamed
Laughing, larking, talking lame.
Our tradition is now getting lost
Modernism and westernization is the cost.
Freedom at Midnight: Revisiting Gandhi and his vision of India
Hindustan Standard said, ‘Gandhiji has been killed by his own people for whose redemption he lived. This second crucifixion in the history of the world has been enacted on a Friday – the same day, Jesus was done to death one thousand nine hundred and fifteen years ago. Father, forgive us.’
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