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Sudhir Kakar (1938-2024): Sexuality, scholarship and secularism

Psychoanalyst, novelist, and cultural critic, Kakar dissected the Indian identity in profound and provocative ways.

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Two of four human skeletons of the Harappan era that were found at a burial mound at Rakhigarhi village in Haryana in March 2015.

How homogenisation can flatten knowledge systems

The Indians is an attempt to trace the poetics of diversity in India especially as it traverses through several pasts.

Shiv Visvanathan

U.R. Ananthamurthy in his Bengaluru home in December 2009.

Choice, culture, and creativity: Review of ‘The Essential U.R. Ananthamurthy’

This anthology makes Ananthamurthy seem more like a remote legend but misses his everyday intellectual presence, eccentricity, and idiosyncrasies.

Shiv Visvanathan

The inhabitants of a slum in Bengaluru, on May 2, 2020. During the pandemic, tiny rooms and overcrowding made a mockery of physical distancing rules in places like these that exist on the margins of a city.

Citizens on the margins: Review of ‘Where the Madness Lies’ by Kishalay Bhattacharjee

Kishalay Bhattacharjee’s book has to be read twice, first as an act of memory, second as a narrative of populist politics.

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