Between The Lines
What relevance does Gandhi have for our times of climate change, biodiversity loss and environmental destruction, and last but not least, the COVID pandemic? Kishore Saint, Ashish Kothari, Aseem Shrivastava find out . …[Read More]…
Bookshelf
Vinay Lal’s new publication is a visual delight and an invigorating look at how dynamic history is, and how political imagination, historical sources, and national narratives can be constantly reread and reinterpreted. Pooja Sancheti engages in a critical reading.…[Read More]…
Literary Trails
On the fiftieth anniversary of the historic Chipko Movement that caught popular imagination and became almost a household name in India Bharat Dogra who was closely associated with it does a recap of its strategic role in asserting peoples’ rights through satyagraha and its overall takeaways we need to remember as we ponder the devastation in the eco-sensitive Himalayan regions.…[Read More]…
Between The Lines
Given the critical evidence of the risks and harm attending GM crops not just in India but worldwide, an unbiased appraisal and regulatory system would not entertain such farming practices, even as corporates try to further their agendas, holds Bharat Dogra. …[Read More]…
That’s Life!!!
As India races towards oligopolistic capitalism, workers are being stripped of even those path-breaking benefits legislated upon years ago says Bharat Dogra in two accompanying meditations…[Read More]…
Visual Spaces
The Forgiven is a dark film that has drama, suspense, and visual artistry, at first glance, homage to Bertolucci and Antonioni. More importantly, it asks: What rules or norms of truth determine our burden of responsibility? Then, the central puzzle: Who has the power to forgive? Is forgiveness the end of punishment? Padmaja Challakere reviews.…[Read More]…
Literary Trails
A short story about love, remembrance woven as a dream fantasy by the Ganga river by one of India’s foremost fiction writers Zakia Mashhadi. Translated from Urdu by Faruq Hassan …[Read More]…
Between The Lines
Even as the government readies the nation for the introduction of GM Mustard and oilseeds with the discourse of import substitution and self-sufficiency, it does so by ignoring the rich corpus of scientific evidence about their irreversible hazards. Bharat Dogra outlines some of them. …[Read More]…
Between The Lines
The seductions of GM crops in the name of food security have once again found traction with the government as the recent bend towards GM Mustard’s ”environmental release” suggests. Two warnings by eminent scientists/doctors should make us all sit up…[Read More]…
Visual Spaces
Morocco’s Football team exceeded wildest expectations at the World Cup in Qatar. H Masud Taj celebrates with calligraphy and a Found Poem based on the words of their coach Walid Regragu…[Read More]…
Literary Trails
The tragic suicides of three teenage candidates studying at coaching classes in Kota point to what is ugly in our education system for sure. But more than that it indicts a development discourse that homogenises learning to turn young minds into bots, says Ashoak Upadhyay…[Read More]…