Happy to See this Dawn
The oft-quoted, famous lines from one of the founders of what is known as English Romanticism, William Wordsworth's The Prelude (Book Ten), cited above, alludes to the opening of a…
Abu Siddik
Reading Hardy’s “The Darkling Thrush” in New Year’s Eve
The poem runs: I leant upon a coppice gate When Frost was spectre-grey, And Winter's dregs made desolate The weakening eye of day. The…
Place of Minorities as Allotted by Savarkar, Golwalkar and Upadhyaya
Hindutva ideologue Golwalker had outlined the place of the minorities in the country in his much talked about book, We, or Our Nationhood Defined (1939), There are only two…
Modi’s Looking Away
Citing Kepios.com, which "makes sense of what people are really do online" and helps people "identify changes in digital behaviour", Datareportal.com indicates that internet users in India remained unchanged between…
Vegans and Beef Politics In India
PETA—People for Ethical Treatment of Animals are active in India. They want to interfere in Indian cow politics. They are against the idea of non-vegetarianism. They are against people eating…
Flames of Hatred in Modi’s India
“April is the cruellest month,” so begins one of the most admired literary pieces of modernity, The Waste Land by T S Eliot (1888-1965). Published in 1923, this masterpiece was taken to…
No Idea of Gomata or Bovine Identity in Ancient India
There was no idea of gomata or gau mata in ancient India. Evidence of beef eating is found even in the oldest Indian religious text of supposedly divine origin, Rigveda.…
On Indian Lynching Data
For many days I am searching for the latest data on Indian lynching incidents. And I find that a host of websites listed at the end of this piece are…
Fear is making inroads into our homes
Why has the state killed Jivan, the protagonist in Megha Majumdar’s much-reviewed, highly praised novel, A Burning? For her alleged ‘crimes against the nation’, ‘sedition’—for simply sharing a Facebook post…
The Boys of my Town at Ram Navami Day
When I sit to write the first line of this piece, the air around my house is filled with the war cries of ‘Jai Shree Ram’, ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’…
What We Miss at Basanta Utsab
Basanta Utsav is held each year in the month of March on the Full moon day of Falgun. Spring is welcomed through music and dances. It literally means the 'celebration…
Cow is a Potential Political and Polarising Tool for BJP
The cow is held as a sacred animal by a section of Hindus. But in the cases of lynching, it becomes a political animal with which to browbeat and even…
Indian Myths and the Violence Against the Non-Aryans
Introduction In almost all myths, the low-born non-Aryan characters, from Bali to Barbareek to Eklavya to Karna, are presented as generous to the extent that none of them cry foul…
September is the Cruelest Month,Babu
September is the cruelest month, babu We are daily labourers We are kiln workers We are domestic maids We are casual agricultural hands It is a lean season, babu And…
Prelude to a Riot
Set in an unnamed southern town amid lush plantations of pepper, bananas, coffee, rice, and narrated in soliloquy Annie Zaidi’s 184- page novel, Prelude to a Riot is a brilliant,…
The Musings of the Dark : A Saga of Our Violent Time
Moumita Alam’s debut poetry collection The Musings of the Dark is a powerful poetic assertion of dissent. Dissent against what? Against state sponsored violence against Kashmiris, violence against anti-CAA (Citizenship…
Patriotism & Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore was far far away from what we popularly call patriotism. Our problem is that more we have been able to erase his ideals and ideas from our everyday…
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