In about 2017, I discovered I had become a German Jew. Now, this is not an easily inherited category, nor an easily-acquired one. It came
The Jewish presence in India is ancient. Jews were trading between West Asia and India since Biblical times.
Ezekiel's pride in his Jewish and Indian heritage was juxtaposed with a deep sense of alienation from both, creating inner turmoil. Frequently, he grappled with
He gets into an airplane on the island of Taipei, and is about to escape, when his plane crashes during attempts to take off.
The eighteenth-century German philosopher Frederick Nietzsche’s discourse on morality gives some interesting explanations. In his books, On the Genealogy of Morality (1887), and Beyond Good
Virendranath Chattopadhyay was the son of Aghorenath Chattopadhyay of Hyderabad, India; his siblings in a large family included the poet Sarojini Naidu and the playwright
Neveh Shalome Synagogue (House of Peace), the oldest of Calcutta’s synagogues, was established in 1826 when there were barely 300 Jews in the city.
Major James Strachey Barnes was, in fact, an Anglo-Indian born in Simla. He had grown up with his maternal grandparents in Italy, then he studied
And ever since then, a shibboleth is a word that must be pronounced to demonstrate the proper belonging to a community. Without having the proper
The foremost of these revolutionaries was Sri Rash Behari Bose, who had escaped to Japan in 1911, after throwing a bomb on Lord Hardinge. The
It also follows that plagiarism is endemic and integral to academic worlds; and that professionals plagiarise in ways that they will get away with. The
Though not in deliberate imitation, the new clothes advocated by the dress reformers were much similar to that of men’s more user-friendly and comfortable pants-like
This would have made no difference to Paul Robeson, when he chose to sing the song. He was comfortable with the work of Dvořák; he
The game seems to involve politics, philosophy, death and even warfare, amongst other prerogatives, leading to the pride and emotions associated with various nations. In
We are talking about the news readers of Doordarshan, India's only public service broadcaster. They had a huge fan base and ruled our mindscape from
That’s the basic problem: we identify ‘our’ heroes in the past, and identify our present and future with lessons we apparently draw from them. That’s
