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• Seminar on Madness

  11 March, by Badri Raina
  Madness is a topic much discussed
  From ancient times to ours;
  Now a crime, now disease,
  Now an affliction of lovers.
  Sane men keep safe distance
  From unaccounted laughter,
  Wishing to know what it is
  That the laughter may be after.
  Madness mocks  (...)

• Defence and Personality Cult

  11 March, by Nikhil Chakravartty
  From N.C.’s Writings
  In the wake of the possibility of another Indo-Pak war breaking out shortly and the rise in jingoistic outbursts in the electronic media in particular, it is instructive to note what N.C. had written in his ‘New Delhi  (...)

• Vande Mataram

  11 March
  When I was shaped into words
  with ink on paper,
  my creator though had a colour,
  a religion by birth,
  I had neither.
  I spread far and wide,
  catching the eyes,
  entering the hearts
  of countless masses,
  resounding into the corners
  of a whole nation  (...)

• Lynched by Goons, Again

  11 March, by Humra Quraishi
  MUSINGS
  If the warlords are over with the war-cries, blatantly whipping up sentiments to further their dangerous political ploys, then it’s about time they look at the rising numbers of those getting lynched by the goon-brigades in the different  (...)

• Eighth March this year on a Different Note

  11 March, by Gargi Chakravartty
  Eighth March is a day for women across the world—not merely a day for celebration as is generally considered in the corporate sector, but a day to express solidarity with all the toiling and grassroots women, a day to protest against the  (...)

• Pollution Threatens Villages, Saryu River

  11 March
  COMMUNICATION
  Several villages in the Kesarganj block of Bahraich district (Uttar Pradesh) and nearby areas are seriously threatened by effluents released in a nullah by a sugar factory. Villagers said that this nullah later merges into the  (...)

• International Scholars Decry Attack on Freedom of Speech in India

  11 March
  International scholars, including Noam Chomsky, James Petras, Angela Davis, Fredric Jameson, Bruno Latour, Ilan Pappe, Judith Butler amongst others, have signed a statement castigating the Modi-led government for creating an environment of fear  (...)

• Imran thanks Modi, and eyes Joint Nobel Peace Prize

  11 March
  by L.K. SHARMA
  The following piece appeared in Open Democracy in October 2018. It is being reproduced, with due acknowledgement, as its contents have become highly topical at present.
  “India led by you would never think of undoing the Partition.  (...)

• Climate Refugees and Human Rights: Caught in the Tide of Time

  11 March
  by Shubhra Seth and Govind Singh
  Introduction
  The feeling of returning home gives a sense of settlement and belongingness to many people. But how does one feel when the home does not give a sense of belonging and it is just a mere cemented  (...)

• Reading State Power in Our Troubled Times

  11 March, by Arup Kumar Sen
  Michel Foucault’s seminal lectures delivered in College De France (1977-78) were published with the title Security, Territory and Population. (Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2007) While introducing the theme, Foucault argued: “...what is involved  (...)

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