संस्कृति
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...
October 10, 2016
जब एक कमज़ोर सरकार कट्टरपंथियों के आगे घुटने टेक दे, तो लोकतंत्र नाम मात्र ही रह जाता है और तानाशाही एवं फासीवाद प्रबल हो जाता है. एम.एफ. हुसेन जिनकी गिनती विश्व विख्यात कलाकारों में की जाती है, उन्हें अपने ही देश से निर्वासित होने पर मजबूर किया गया था. सारा विश्व स्तब्ध था और कथाकथित संविधान के संरक्षक मूकदर्शक बने हुए थे.
उनकी मनभावन आत्मकथा में मध्य प्रदेश के इंदौर की सार्वजनिक संस्कृति...
October 10, 2016
Popular cinema and public culture in Bombay
Popular cinema in India is a strange social animal. Hailed as the primary popular culture in the country, it is also considered the filmi villain that has killed several pre-cinema cultural practices, most of which were community based. It is assumed that reproducibility has multiplied the outreach of cinema to such an extent that by the mid-20th...