How much blood does a corpse bleed; what is the sound of a lamb that bleats as it jumps over a precipice, when shepherds turn amiss?
O Lord, this year give me a balm to apply on sores, for too many have been crucified at the altar of greed and (...)
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A Prayer for the World | Sagari Chhabra
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Abou-Nemeh’s Review of Sandrine Parageau’s The Paradoxes of Ignorance in Early Modern England and France
19 JanuaryBOOK REVIEW
by Catherine Abou-Nemeh (Victoria University of Wellington)
The Paradoxes of Ignorance in Early Modern England and France. by Sandrine Parageau
Stanford: Stanford University Press 2023. viii + 254 pp. (cloth), ISBN (...) -
Rabindranath Tagore’s Spiritual Journeys | M.R. Narayan Swamy
19 January, by M R Narayan SwamyREVIEW __0__
Rabindranath Tagore: Among Saints Bipul Kumar Gangopadhyay
Translators: Swaraj Kumar Chakrabarti and Dr Amitava Sanyal
Vitasta 163pages; Price: Rs 395 ISBN-10 : 8119670892 ISBN-13 : 978-8119670895
To the world at (...) -
An extraordinary memoir of an acid attack survivor | Joydip Ghosal
19 JanuaryBOOK REVIEW
Being Reshma Reshma Qureshi with Tania Singh
Pan Macmillan India
248 pages
ISBN-978-93-86215-52-9
Being Reshma, The Extraordinary Story of an Acid-Attack Survivor Who Took the World by Storm by Reshma Qureshi is haunting (...) -
Sri Lanka: Stop Abusive Anti-Drug Operation and Release Those Arbitrarily Detained - Joint Statement
19 JanuaryWe, the undersigned organisations, are deeply concerned about the drastic intensification of anti-drug operations in Sri Lanka leading to significant human rights violations.
On 17 December 2023 the Acting Inspector General of Police Deshabandu (...) -
Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Jan 13, 2024
12 JanuaryLetter to the Readers, Mainstream, Jan 13 2024
In a commendable and gutsy move, the Indian National Congress party has declined the invitation to attend the Ram Mandir inauguration ceremony scheduled on January 22. The Congress leadership has (...) -
Does Bilkis Bano verdict constitute an exception to the rule of capture of institutions | Faraz Ahmad
12 January, by Faraz AhmadJustice B.V. Nagarathna truly deserves to be called in our difficult times a “Danial” a la Portia of Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice.
After full 21 years Bilkis Bano, then barely 21 and pregnant with her second child, finally received a (...) -
Complete ban on demolitions needed in times of increasing difficulties of cold weather | Bharat Dogra
12 January, by Bharat DograIncreasing cold weather conditions have led to many vulnerable people remaining indoors as far as possible in Delhi. The pollution of the city mixed with fog and cold weather has also prompted those having vulnerable health conditions to avoid (...) -
Kerala Needs More “Mariyakuttys” | Jos Chathukulam
12 January, by Jos ChathukulamAbstract
Mariyakutty is a beneficiary under the Indira Gandhi National Widow Pension Scheme (IGNWPS) from Kerala who used to get a small amount of Rs. 1600 under the scheme, ‘a purse of her own’ in the words of Susan B. Anthony. However, for the (...) -
The upcoming Lok Sabha Elections: Some Thoughts | P S Jayaramu
12 January, by P S Jayaramu8th January 2024
The upcoming elections to the Lok Sabha, consisting of the Bharatiya Janata Party’ ( BJPs) and the INDIA alliance is the flavour of the season.
Let me first deal with the BJP’s hegemonic hold over Indian Politics in recent (...)
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