संस्कृति
November 26, 2016
Why has De la Rue, a black-listed company by the Reserve Bank of India previously, been given the contract to supply machinery for the re-printing currency notes, without any official announcement being made? Until April 2016 at least, De La Rue continued to supply paper for this printing, and was re-issued tenders by the Modi Govt for this highly sensitive activity despite being...
November 26, 2016
Today at the stroke of the midnight hour, thanks to the collective efforts of the Sabrangindia Team and the never dying support of friends, comrades all, Sabrangindia turns one. November 26, Constitution Day. This was a re incarnation of Communalism Combat, a print magazine born out of the fires of hatred, and our commitment to real, meaningful journalism alive between 1983...
November 19, 2016
Public Lecture l Ram Rahman l Designing History l Saturday, 26th November 2016, 6:00 p.m
Honorary Director
Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum
Veermata Jijamata Bhosale Udyan
A-91 Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Road
Byculla East, Mumbai – 400 027
Tel: 65719211
Image: 'Kham', courtesy Ram Rahman
OPEN TO ALL...
November 14, 2016
On November 14, 2016, Pandit Nehru’s Birth Anniversary, the Indian National Congress re-launched the National Herald under the stewardship of Neelabh Mishra, erstwhile editor of the Hindi Outlook. Mishra had been asked to leave Outlook after a series of shake-ups in the publication, widely believed in the journalist world, to be under executive pressure. Editor of the English edition of the...
November 13, 2016
अफ़वाह, मानहानि, झूठ और दुष्प्रचार हमारा तरीका तो नहीं है न?
नमक मामले में जो आम जनता का मजाक उड़ा रहे है उनकी जेहनी हालत पर सिर्फ तरस खाया जा सकता है। हजूर, सरकार जिसे कहते है वो एक भरोसे का नाम होता है। वो भरोसा, जिसके दम पर एक हड्डी का सिपाही हज़ारों लोगों को दौड़ा-दौड़ा के पीटता है। वो भरोसा, जिसके दम पर गरीब किसान अपनी सारी फसल कागज़ के टुकड़ों के बदले दे देता है। वो...
November 12, 2016
There is no one uniform tradition of Sufism, a fact that is little known today.
Image: Reuters
Sprouting from the concrete floor of a madrassa is the bark of the ancient Karir tree that has remained rooted to this spot as the world around it changed. The shade of this tree was the madrassa itself when Baba Farid Shakarganj, head of the Sufi tradition of Chistiya, moved here – a...
November 11, 2016
Today, November 11 is the 128th Birth Anniversary of Maulana Azad. In 1992 he was posthumously awarded India's highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna. He was 70 years when he passed away on February 22, 1958.
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was twice elected President of the Indian National Congress, in 1923 and again in 1940. This excerpt from his historic address made at...
November 10, 2016
Today, medieval India is seen as a place of eternal religious conflict. But that view is more due to modern-day politics than the actual events of history.
Image credit: Scroll.in
In 1940, as Mahomed Ali Jinnah laid out his vision of the Two Nation Theory in Lahore, he argued that Hindus and Muslims in the subcontinent have separate pasts. “It is quite clear,” said the soon-to-...
November 9, 2016
नई दिल्ली। दिवाली के बाद से दिल्ली और इसके आस-पास के इलाकों में छाई धुंध ने आम जनजीवन को इतना ज्यादा परेशान किया कि लोगों का जीना दूभर हो गया है। कुछ लोग इसका कारण दिवाली पर जले हुए पटाखों को मान रहे हैं तो दिल्ली सरकार ने इसे पड़ोसी राज्यों में पराल जलाने की वजह मान रही है।
जहां एक तरफ एनजीटी और हाईकोर्ट इस धुंध को साफ करने के लिए जतन करने में जुटे हैं। वहीं राष्ट्रीय स्वयं सेवक संघ और...
November 8, 2016
12 things we can't ignore as America votes.
Image credit: Vox.com
For John Berger at 90, whose uncompromising tenderness and compassion shows us how to look hard yet be full of care.
1. There should be a plural term for violences. This would let us talk about how to choose between violences. Today, this would mean judging between different ‘brands’ of violence in the...