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• A Fresh Look at an Off-beat Genre-docu-feature Film

  20 October, by Sumanta Banerjee
  BOOK REVIEW
  Nibandha Chalachchitra by Iqbal Karim Hasnu; published by Aninda Rahman on behalf of Curious Dhaka, Dhaka; 2018; pp. 152; 300 Taka.
  This slender book entitled Nibandha Chalach-chitra (Essays on Films) is a collection of   (...)

• Kashmir Caged: Violence on Children, Media Functioning

  20 October, by Humra Quraishi
  MUSINGS
  From this October 2, let us try and speak the truth and also try and hear only the truth. After all, Mahatma Gandhi’s biggest weapon was his strength to speak only and only the truth. Armed with that, he disarmed even heavily-armed  (...)

• To Vote or Not to Vote — An analysis of Compulsory Voting

  20 October
  by Neha Chauhan
  The General elections of 2019 would be remembered for many things, one of them being that India recorded a voter turnout of 67 per cent, the highest ever in the history of the country’s democracy. Voter turnout in India has  (...)

• “Independent Jammu and Kashmir” — a Crying Hoax

  20 October
  by M.M. Khajooria
  Prominent Muslim leaders like Ali Shah Geelani and his Jamaat-i-Islami colleagues solemnly take oath in the name of Allah “to preserve and protect the integrity of India” at the time of filing nomination papers for election to  (...)

• From Rajghat, Delhi to Geneva: Yearlong Gandhian March for Justice and Peace

  20 October, by Bharat Dogra
  From October 2 to October 4 there was a very colourful gathering of people from several nations in Delhi. This was part of the inauguration and preparation for a global peace initiative in the form of a march from Delhi to Geneva. This march,  (...)

• There is a Word No Longer Heard

  20 October, by Badri Raina
  There is a word no longer heard,
  No longer in the human mind;
  As life moves its epistemes,
  Words get left behind.
  There is comfort, there is fun,
  Skill, show, applause;
  But lack of meat at the heart of these,
  Like the thinnest gauze.
  The next  (...)

• Square

  20 October
  Life seems to be a straight line
  endlessly elongating;
  a time comes when it bends,
  shaping into a big square.
  The square gets small, smaller;
  you shuffle within its confines.
  The sensory world closes in,
  marking your appointed place.
  But mind  (...)
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  Scenario in India and Beyond

  13 October
  POLITICAL NOTEBOOK
  While one positive development in the overall national political scenario is the belated decision of the Bihar Police to close the sedition case against 49 leading intellectuals and film personalities for signing an open  (...)

• JP: Some Reflections

  13 October, by Nikhil Chakravartty
  From N.C.’s Writings
  [by] Analyst
  On the occasion of Jayaprakash Narayan’s 117th birth anniversary on October 11, 2019 we are carrying the following piece written by N.C. under the pseudonym ‘Analyst’ after JP passed away on October 8, 1979.  (...)

• Why Malayalam Outclasses Hindi

  13 October, by T J S George
  IMPRESSIONS
  I am convinced that Malayalam should be declared the national language of India. Of the many reasons, consider just two. It is a universal language spoken all over the globe and in outer space; who doesn’t know that when Neil  (...)

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