A back-to-back rereading of Asimov’s Foundation trilogy and Karl Marx’s The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte in terms of their political visions is not as
The propensity to prevent potentially successful people from attaining success and the predilection to begrudge, resent, or mock people who succeed, who have talent, who
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And even though a compliment might be a little thing, a fake compliment can do more damage than one can imagine. Since honesty is an
Gandhi did not condemn the scientific temper of the West, but he objected to the use of scientific discoveries against humanity. In fact, as history
Now the pandals are ready and the atmosphere festive and kinetic. The city is abuzz with excitement about the myriad themed installations that house Maa
what is a family? What are its foundations? Are families just about what is depicted in ‘saas-bahu’ television series and Bollywood masala movies? Perhaps, it
My transformation into an avid gardener is a tough act to follow. I grew up in the urban jungle of Kolkata, a dirty, noisy, grey,
The Keralite festival of Onam is built around the myth of King Mahabali and Vaman avatar. The dynamics of forceful subjugation and the good and
Poet, critic and translator Sanjukta Dasgupta is a familiar name in the Kolkata literary circuit. The Professor and former Head of the Department of English
End of summer, back to school!!! As the morning broke today with the call of the alarm clock (lazy for three full months), there was
On 16 August 2012, 34 miners of the Marikana platinum mines in South Africa were shot dead by the police. A decade later, the legacy
These questionable controversial verses that came to be known as ‘satanic verses,’ authorized intercessory prayers to al-Lat, al-Uzza and Manat — three Meccan female deities.
We sat together in Calcutta at the dining table of the old crumbling 1920s house in which we then lived, my progressive bookseller and myself,
What happened to the girl? We never cared to know. Her parents never cared to know.
When India won Independence from British colonisers 75 years ago, woen played a key role in the freedom movement. But, are they free in the
