SIMPLE SOCIAL STUDIES: HOW DO “TRADITIONS” GET LOST? (LEARN IN A POLITICAL-ECONOMIC WAY, AND NOT IN A SENTIMENTAL WAY)– Manosh Chowdhury Today we will think about tradition, friends. When it comes to tradition, many of you are awakened to a teary-eyed nationalism, so please let it go for a while. Otherwise, you may mess up … Continue reading How do “traditions” get lost?
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Chai Stories from the Pandemic
In December 2019 as Delhi broke into a series of anti-CAA protests, the city came unstuck in time. It was a small way for Delhiites to reclaim their city, streets, and culture. As crowds pulsed down the KG Marg and Barakhamba Road outside my then office in Central Delhi’s Connaught Place, I stood at the … Continue reading Chai Stories from the Pandemic
A Burning: Good Books Are Hard to Read
Stylistically speaking, A Burning is compulsively readable. It is told in short chapters, written in economic prose, alternating perspectives and foci on characters. Majumdar seems to be a skilled writer who knows our short attention spans intimately and recognizes the need to move briskly to appeal to our constraints.
Colonialism, politics of language and partition of Bengal (New Age Special Issue)
New Age | The Outspoken Daily. Nurul Kabir, editor of New Age and popular public intellectual, with a look at the history of partition in Bengal.
Does Writing Have a Future in the Peripheries?
Critical theorist, Vilém Flusser’s main agendas is a “recoding of history” not in terms of historical consciousness, but on the operative imperatives of apparatuses. This recoding inevitably takes the form of imperialism that at first glance appears to advocate a “value-free regime,” but which Flusser writes is better understood as an “order [of] all values … Continue reading Does Writing Have a Future in the Peripheries?
Anu Muhammad: What India wants in Bangladesh
ভারত বাংলাদেশে কী চায়?
আনু মুহাম্মদ
এরকম ধারণা সমাজে এখন বেশ জোরদার যে, ভারত বাংলাদেশের বর্তমান সরকারকে ক্ষমতায় টিকিয়ে রাখতে সকল সমর্থন প্রদান করেছে, তারা তাদের গোয়েন্দা সংস্থাসহ সবধরনের প্রতিষ্ঠানকে এই কাজে আগের চাইতে অনেক বিস্তৃতভাবে নিয়োজিত করেছে।
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Young, Restless, and Indian
Young, Restless, and Indian A short piece about being young and elite in India
Battling India’s Monsanto Protection Act, Farmers Demand End to GMO
Battling India's Monsanto Protection Act, Farmers Demand End to GMO.
