संस्कृति
January 5, 2015
Physicians for Human Rights (U.S.)
Physicians for Human Rights,
1991 - 43 pages
Language - English
December 24, 2014
Pandit Vikash Maharaj, famed Sarod playerof the Banaras Gharana to Teesta Setalvad in an exclusive interview
The Prevalent Public Discourse of Aggressive Consumerism and Communalism can be countered by interventions of Hindustani Music and Art: Pandit Vikash Maharaj, Banaras
Sangeetkar ko na jaat- paat, na unch-neech ki baat karni chahiye:Pandit Vikash Maharaj
The...
October 15, 2014
Baba Adhav, at 84 remains a doyen of the working class movement having organised the unorganised section of India's working class, the ragpicker, the domestic worker into what Pune and many parts of Maharashtra proudly know as the Hamal Panchayats. Hamals, mainly from backward castes, came from all over rural Maharashtra to Pune's markets, unloading heavy sacks of grain or cement on their...
July 1, 2012
Robert Frisk covers the fallout of the Arab Spring and how Egypt reacts to the Electoral victory of the Muslim Brotherhood.
October 1, 2011
Fear and the farce
Even for a party that pays mere lip service to constitutional principles, it was a moment of great shame. A three-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India directs the Special Investigation Team (SIT) – specially appointed by the court to reinvestigate the major cases of carnage in Gujarat in 2002 – to also investigate the role of chief minister Narendra...
March 1, 2011
Worldwide coverage on the revolutionary spirit in West Asia and Africa.
November 1, 2008
Will they bash up universities in Jakarta and other places for teaching different versions of the Ramayana?: Romila Thapar
The controversial decision earlier this month by the Academic Council of Delhi University to drop AK Ramanujan’s celebrated essay on the Ramayana, ‘Three Hundred Ramayanas: Five Examples and Three Thoughts on Translation’, from the BA history (honours)...
April 1, 2008
Actor Naseeruddin Shah discusses the vagaries of religion, the Bollywood ethos and his future in cinema
Q: What was the reaction in Pakistan to Khuda Kay Liye? Did you visit Pakistan after the movie was released?
A: The reaction was absolutely unbelievable. In Pakistan the theatres are very tacky, badly equipped, there is no air conditioning and rats run across your feet. They are like...