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Mahatma Gandhi arriving at Dandi , where he met Mrs. Sarojini Naidu. Gandhi broke the Salt Laws at this village which is 10 miles away from Naubari in Gujarat.

Rereading Gandhi

It is in the search for the ethical foundations of democracy that we will be forced to rediscover the relevance of Gandhi.
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NEW DELHI, 15/04/2014: For Metro Plus: Poet Mangalesh Dabral during an interaction, in New Delhi . Photo: V. Sudershan

From the earth and the sky

ONE of the dubious privileges of senior writers is that they get a lot of books as gifts; I said “dubious” for many reasons. While, at times, they are
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Body and beyond

Sajitha Shankar’s “Alterbodies” transcends the sensual and the sexual to have near-metaphysical encounters with the self.
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Dialogues with history

Subodh Kerkar’s installations are meditations on the colonial past, nature and history where the boundary between art and life stands disrupted.
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Chennai: 28/10/2011: The Hindu: Front Line: Ramanujam

The plural and the singular

With 184 mother tongues, 25 writing systems, and several traditions of oral and written literature, the diversity of India’s literary landscape can
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Songs from the underworld

Namdeo Dhasal, whose poetry is open to the beauty as well as the brutality of life, is a pioneer not only of Dalit poetry but also of contemporary Ind
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The Kochi-Muziris Biennale

The Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India’s first such show, provides a much-needed platform for a vital inquiry into today’s art by bringing together artists
K. SATCHIDANANDAN

The Kochi-Muziris Biennale

The Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India’s first such show, provides a much-needed platform for a vital inquiry into today’s art by bringing together artists
K. SATCHIDANANDAN

Life and art

The Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India’s first such show, provides a much-needed platform for a vital inquiry into today’s art by bringing together artists
K. SATCHIDANANDAN
Jaipur 23/1/ 2012: 'The Goog Muslim' Tahmima Anam in Conversation with Gaurav Jain..at diggi palace in Jaiour. ---Photo Rohit Jain Paras

Fighting the stereotype

About novels that deal directly or obliquely with Muslim life and ultimately about life in general but yet have something specific about them that con
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Mainstreaming the subaltern

The roots of Dalit literature in Kerala and Tamil Nadu lie in the strong corpus of oral and ritualistic literature that interrogated the caste system
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Rudramoorthy Cheran, perhaps the most clairvoyant among the poets of the Eelam movement.-M. VEDHAN

Of resistance and loss

Sri Lankan Tamil writers tried to capture the trauma of the violence that gripped the country from 1983. The songs of the vanquished show how poetry c
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