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How Does Kabir Still Speak To Us?

The tendency of the human mind, whether fighting for personal territory or fighting for justice, is to create an enemy: self vs the other, us vs them. good vs…

▶08-Jan-2024

Vipul Rikhi

The Lives of Our Past

In their different ways, two recent novels about living in urban India, 'Quarterlife' and 'History’s Angel', urge us to recognise, in the…

▶12-Dec-2023

Stuti Khanna

Meo Yasin Khan: A Secularist, a Pluralist and a Peace Broker

The Meos of Mewat who suffered so much in the recent violence in Nuh, Haryana, have a history of seeking to live in peace. A writer discovers her grandfather…

▶01-Nov-2023

Anisa Rahim

While We Watched the Decline of TV News

‘While We Watched’, a documentary on the journalist Ravish Kumar, is a courageous film that tells the story of our times, specifically the steady decline in…

▶24-Jul-2023

Kalyani Raghunathan

The Other Side of Paradise

A war-ravaged country torn apart by militancy and poverty; Afghanistan is now a textbook example of a failed state. But the region was once home to a…

▶08-May-2023

Arundhuti Dasgupta

Har Dayal: Three Years That Made a Difference

Har Dayal, a founding member of the Ghadar party, was an anarchist who moved between advocacy of revolution to pacificism, later advocating a utopian “world…

▶03-May-2023

Anuradha Kumar

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