Stuff to read in a travel black hole…
This is what I’m reading as I find myself stuck in a travel black hole… 1. R Jagannathan on why “Manmohan Singh is the dynasty’s fall guy” (emphasis mine)… Both the prime minister and...
Category: Indian Culture, Arts and Music
Reading Pavan Varma: “we are not a parvenu civilisation”
Extracts from a thought-provoking interview of Pavan Varma by Kanchan Gupta: (emphasis added): …“Those who have never been colonised can never really know what it does to the psyche of a people. Those who...
A Poet for our times: Reading Ramdhari Singh “Dinkar”
Another ceasefire violation along LoC, another terrorist attack, another dialogue with a great neighbour…and another peace initiative…As I read the news this morning, something triggered an urge to read Raashtrakavi Ramdhari SIngh “Dinkar”. I...
I wonder what would have happened if…
…this song was released today (as in this day and age)… In case you are wondering what this is about, let me draw your attention to these lyrics towards the end of the song...
Is Sanskrit really a “Indo-European” language?
Thanks to Dr Kalyananraman-ji for alerting me to this. In this well-argued and researched essay titled, Colonial Constructs about Indian Languages, Shishir Thadani explains why there may be a lot more in common between...
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