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Our Unseen Sanctuary
IT was pitch-black on the mountain road through Yemen, and the driver and I had just survived a swarm of teenage boys crowding round us while waving assault rifles.
6 min |
January 21, 2026
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Márquez's Macondo and Gandhi, Still Undeciphered
MACONDO, in Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, begins, famously, as a town founded in the middle of nowhere, born out of flight.
9 min |
January 21, 2026
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Sky Above, Earth Below
For every novel, the central idea, the story, often takes shape easily in the mind.
10+ min |
January 21, 2026
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Tracing the Memory of Migration
This photo-essay looks into the lost memory of migration connected to women indentured labourers from north India, who migrated to the Caribbean, Suriname and Mauritius in the nineteenth century.
5 min |
January 21, 2026
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A Breath Held Long
THE human instinct to act or perform in the world must be deeply connected to the idea of desire. A desire to be elsewhere.
2 min |
January 21, 2026
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The World and the Word
IN fact, we live in garrulous times.
6 min |
January 21, 2026
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Navigating the Nation Factory
IN 1979, Andrei Tarkovsky, the great Russian filmmaker, completed Stalker, the last film he would make in his homeland.
7 min |
January 21, 2026
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Imagine
from an imaginary notebook I am yet to imagine...
6 min |
January 21, 2026
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HOUSE OF CONTEMPLATIONS HOUSE OF CONVERSATIONS
TO the self and the others, this home is a shelter, a place of contemplation, a space for conversations. The guestbook, which Aradhana Seth calls the 'Elsewhere Book', is a drawing board, a container, a time machine where you can find yourself and others in an elsewhere time and place.
3 min |
January 21, 2026
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Sab Yaad Rakha Jayega
I am concerned with the landscape of memory.
4 min |
January 21, 2026
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The Big Blind Spot
Caste boundaries still shape social relations in Tamil Nadu-a state long rooted in self-respect politics
8 min |
December 11, 2025
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Jat Yamla Pagla Deewana
Dharmendra's tenderness revealed itself without any threats to his masculinity. He adapted himself throughout his 65-year-long career as both a product and creature of the times he lived through
5 min |
December 11, 2025
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Fairytale of a Fallow Land
Hope Bihar can once again be that impossibly noisy village in Phanishwar Nath Renu's Parti Parikatha-divided, yes, but still capable of insisting that rights are not favours and development is more than a slogan shouted from a stage
10+ min |
December 11, 2025
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The Lesser Daughters of the Goddess
The Dravidian movement waged an ideological war against the devadasi system. As former devadasis lead a new wave of resistance, the practice is quietly sustained by caste, poverty, superstition and inherited ritual
2 min |
December 11, 2025
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The Meaning of Mariadhai
After a hundred years, what has happened to the idea of self-respect in contemporary Tamil society?
5 min |
December 11, 2025
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When the State is the Killer
The war on drugs continues to be a war on the poor
5 min |
December 11, 2025
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We Are Intellectuals
A senior law officer argued in the Supreme Court that \"intellectuals\" could be more dangerous than \"ground-level terrorists\"
5 min |
December 11, 2025
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An Equal Stage
The Dravidian Movement used novels, plays, films and even politics to spread its ideology
10+ min |
December 11, 2025
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The Dignity in Self-Respect
How Periyar and the Self-Respect Movement took shape in Tamil Nadu and why the state has done better than the rest of the country on many social, civil and public parameters
5 min |
December 11, 2025
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When Sukumaar Met Elakkiya
Self-respect marriage remains a force of socio-political change even a century later
7 min |
December 11, 2025
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The Flow of Thirukkural
Dravidianism developed as a challenge against the Aryan-supremacist and Hindu nationalist trends of India's early nationalist movement. It continues to challenge Hindutva's Vedic supremacist concepts
7 min |
December 11, 2025
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The Druid's Bitter Medicine
When Nehru wanted Periyar to be kept in a mental health facility for his vitriolic views on Brahmins
6 min |
December 11, 2025
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The Outpost
There is a growing clash in Tamil Nadu between the Dravidian model of governance and the BJP's brand of development
1 min |
December 11, 2025
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Cracks in the Citadel?
As Hindutva ideology reshapes political narratives across much of India, Tamil Nadu is emerging as a key battleground
7 min |
December 11, 2025
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March of Movements
How have the Dravidian movement, the Dalit movement led by Ambedkar and his successors, the Communist movement, and the Hindutva movement articulated by the RSS and the BJP each engaged with caste?
10+ min |
December 11, 2025
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From Margins to Mainstream The Inclusive Growth Story
Haryana leads the way in welfare reforms with schemes imaginatively redesigned to support the vulnerable — women, students, workers, and the marginalised
4 min |
December 01, 2025
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One year of Saini Govt. marked by holistic and inclusive governance, social welfare
75 percent of promises kept and worked upon in one-fifth of tenure
4 min |
December 01, 2025
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Nurturing Urban Dreams on Rural Foundation Haryana's Housing Push Gains Pace
Haryana has redefined housing development with equity at its core. Through 'Housing for All', the state hasn't just built structures, it has rebuilt lives. From makeshift shelters to permanent homes marks a powerful journey on the road to social uplift and inclusive growth
3 min |
December 01, 2025
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Haryana, The Medal Factory, Powering India's Olympic Dreams
Haryana has risen as the undisputed powerhouse of Indian sports, blending grassroots talent, world-class infrastructure, and visionary policies
2 min |
December 01, 2025
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No Woman's Land
The Left parties, which champion women's representation and empowerment, fielded only one woman among their 33 candidates in the Bihar election
6 min |