संस्कृति
October 21, 2016
For all who are terrified of real baddies such as Dracula and Satan, and have not known where to look, help is finally at hand: sprinkle cow urine and all ghosts will run for cover.
Such is the advisory put out in the public interest by the Gujarat Gauseva and Gauchar Vikas Board, a government body, the Times of India has reported.
The Aarogya Geeta, while elaborating on the importance...
October 19, 2016
A deconstruction of the filmmaker’s statement asking protestors to allow his movie ’Ae Dil Hai Mushkil’ to be screened without violence.
Image: Scroll.in
Karan Johar’s video statement on Tuesday pleading for his new movie to be allowed to run in theatres without disruption looks like a better lit version of the victim videos released by kidnappers and terrorists....
October 18, 2016
The ironical problem is that amidst all this debate, it is the BJP which is coming out as a supporter and champion of gender justice.
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The latest controversy over the Law Commission questionnaire eliciting responses over the viability of a uniform civil code has raised many questions. But at the outset, it should be made clear that there is nothing wrong in the...
October 17, 2016
There’s been a great deal of excitement over Bob Dylan winning the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature. It’s rare for artists who have achieved widespread, mainstream popularity to win. And although Nobels often go to Americans, the last literature prize to go to one was Toni Morrison in 1993. Furthermore, according to The New York Times, “It is the first time the honor has gone to...
October 17, 2016
SCHOOL OF ARTS AND AESTHETICS, JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY, NEW DELHI
All Are Cordially Invited
October 19, 6.30 pm
A Talk by Sarover Zaidi:
Working with Architecture and Language
A deliberation on Delhi, with its spaces of love (monumental Ruins) and its language of love (Urdu)
The talk is being held in connection with the ongoing exhibition at the SAA Gallery
'love in the...
October 14, 2016
Ashley (extreme left) with friends at the Eat-what-you-like, multiple options dinner hosted by him in Delhi a year ago
On this day, October 14, last year, NP Ashley, a Muslim hosted a 'Pork Dinner' to combat growing religious extremism
Some months ago, Sugathakumari, a Malayalam writer and a supporter of the Hindutva ideology, criticised Beef Festivals which came up protesting...
October 12, 2016
Sangh parivar’s cultural vigilantes force exit of Dalit poet and activist Pradnya Daya Pawar, along with eminent Dalit scholar Dr Raosaheb Kasbe from a lit-fest in Satara
Dalit poet and activist Pradnya Daya Pawar. Photo credit: Praful Gangurde
In what is being dubbed as an appalling attack on the freedom of expression of the litterateurs, renowned Dalit poet and activist Pradnya Daya...
October 12, 2016
षष्ठी की सुबह यह लिख रहा हूँ . आज माँ भगवती के भक्तों की वर्ष भर की प्रतीक्षा पूरी होती है. माँ की प्रतिमा में आज प्राण-प्रतिष्ठा होगी. वे जीवंत हो उठेंगी. आज से चार दिन उनकी आराधना के दिन हैं. मैं रोज़ अपनी बहन को देखता हूँ, चंडी पाठ सुनते हुए. बचपन की माँ याद आ जाती है: दशहरा आते ही घर में धूप की एक सुगंध उठने लगती थी. तुरत नहाई माँ को दुर्गा की छवि के आगे आँख मूँदे हुए पाठ करते देखता था....
October 12, 2016
‘आज तक’ से पाँच साल बाद आईबीएन7 ने भी खोजी रावण की ममी ! रिपोर्टर वही !
कृपादृष्टि प्रभु ताहि बिलोका। करहु क्रिया परहरि सब सोका।।
कीन्हि क्रिया प्रभु आयसु मानी। बिधिवत देस काल जियँ जानी।।
( रावण की अंत्येष्टि के बारे में मानस की चौपाई।)
"ग़ौर से देखो इस शख्स को..इसके भोले चेहरे पर मत जाना, इसकी...
October 12, 2016
Cultural practice does not recognise borders. Militarising it reduces it to a dangerous monolith
The masks came off soon after condoling writer Mahasweta Devi’s death. Unmasked, the right-wing pseudo-nationalists were on the prowl for their daily target. They found it in a play staged in the University of Haryana; the play was based on Mahasweta’s story, Draupadi. The ABVP attack was...