I Can’t Speak?
a colonial word – sedition- is used by the current BJP government in India to silence dissent and terrorize people
I can’t hear
I can’t hear any more the cries of patients who you say should be patient when you do offer some speech one small drop of water after another on a burning place in hell I can’t hear any more loved ones of patients who you say should be patient when you do offer some…
‘Globalization’ – 2021
As I look through the windshield at forbidden fireworks creating silent fountains against the fast fading light, Peter Frankopan’s clipped British accent provides the soundtrack. A new era is about to begin as 2020 is a few hours away from passing on. In an interview for BBC’s ‘hard talk’ programme, he reveals that while two…
An Emerging India on your screen
‘A Suitable Boy’ by Vikram Seth is a thick book, but that wasn’t the reason I didn’t get beyond the first couple of hundred pages. I was young then, and was probably on the lookout for something more quick-paced. Besides, the India that it described was more or less the India I lived in, so…
‘The Hindus’ – 1
‘The Hindus’ by Wendy Doniger tells ‘an alternative history’ of the Hindus from c.50,000,000 BCE to 1500 BCE to the present. Considering this claim, 700 pages are rather modest. Doniger clarifies that she doesn’t believe that any one person can tell the story of Hinduism. Perhaps this is also one reason (amongst others) why she…