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Everywhere, All at Once
The Prime Minister has successfully crafted a particular kind of image which is key to the BJP's electoral success. But in the process, the distinctive line between the government and the PM is getting blurred
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February 11, 2024
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Undiluted Adulation
The Prime Minister gets the media's undivided attention, except when the BJP or the government has suffered a setback
5 min |
February 11, 2024
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Formula One
He is not a conventional politician, but an ideologue who draws his mandate from the promise of hyper-capitalism
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February 11, 2024
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Phantasmagoric Appeal of the One
HE is everywhere. There are his cutouts in which the prime minister is holding a broom. In others, he is waving at nobody in particular. And then, there are the selfie booths at airports, in institutions, and at railway stations, with a 3D life-size replica of Modi.
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February 11, 2024
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Epitaph on the Tombstone of Allah Jilai (1337 Hijri/1919 AD)
This is the strange and painful tale of Allah Jilai If you pay close attention, these are all miracles of love
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January 21, 2024
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Wild Smelling Flowers
Heavy, ruthless blades haul and push debris away, excavate ghosts of history, demolish mosques, minarets.
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January 21, 2024
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War On Gaza: The Politics Of Language In Media Coverage
Mainstream media uses different sets of words for the two sides when reporting on the Israel-Palestine conflict
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December 21, 2023
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Born and Raised in Bambai 17
Farmers staging a 'Zameen Satyagrah' near Jaipur in 2017 to protest against the forced acquisition of their land by the government
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January 21, 2024
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What Age Has Taught Me: Silence
Farmers from Tamil Nadu staged a protest in 2017 against farmer suicides
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January 21, 2024
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Bhatti (Furnace)
In the furnaces of their homes Women offer their entire lives And keep thinking Perhaps!
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January 21, 2024
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On Elsewhereness
Mother walks through a military curfew upon shattered windows bearing no address. Upon little rocks still lugging the memory of the mountains they once were a part of.
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January 21, 2024
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Losar Greeting
The family of Arsalan, a nineteen-year-old from Zaldagar, Srinagar protests in 2022 against his arrest by the National Investigation Agency
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January 21, 2024
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Ninna Dakhale Yaavaga Needutte? (When Will You Show Your Documents?)
Those queueing for aadhar-ration-cards between thumb-scans and monkey-tricks of servers who lose their lives–their documents you demand, When will you show your documents!?
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January 21, 2024
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My Mother
A gathering resolving to form Hawkers Union in Shillong, Meghalaya in 2016
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January 21, 2024
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Blood of Other Days
In the by-gone days of the other life Before the advent of the WORD Spilling the blood of foes Was the honour-code
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January 21, 2024
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I Want to be killed by an Indian Bullet
I heard the news long ago that they were looking for me; in the morning in the afternoon at night. My children told me; my wife told me.
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January 21, 2024
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My Invented Land
My native soil was created from tiny sparks that clung to grand mother's earthen pot which conjured savoury dishes I've been looking for all my life in vain.
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January 21, 2024
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Native Land
First came the scream of the dying in a bad dream, then the radio report, and a newspaper: six shot dead, twenty-five houses razed, sixteen beheaded with hands tied behind their backs inside a church . . .
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January 21, 2024
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Ayodhya: A Personal Account
The homogenisation of Indian culture and the seizure and erasure of history will only get stronger in times to come
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December 21, 2023
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The Sounds of Silence
The mystical desert of Jaisalmer, the majestic 12th-century fort palace, and a juxtaposition of sounds and silences from 20 different countries the story of a unique 'museum' within a museum
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December 21, 2023
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REQUIEM FOR A DREAM
The Equator Line (TEL), a themed, quarterly magazine of non-conformist writing blazed a brilliant trail of its own before shutting down
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December 21, 2023
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Through the Looking Glass
Nearly 40 years on, Govind Nihalani's memorable social and political satire Party unravels the hypocrisy of India's urban elite and raises vital questions about art
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December 21, 2023
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Inglorious Miners
The rat-hole miners involved in the Uttarakhand rescue operations are well aware that soon they will fade from people's memories and will have no option but to go back crawling inside dark tunnels
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December 21, 2023
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Rethinking Development in the Himalayas
Several reports published around the UN climate change conference, COP28, warn that the threats to the Himalayas from climate change are more direct and immediate
9 min |
December 21, 2023
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Saving Languages
Many threatened languages in the country might become critically endangered in the near future. A few from some tribal communities, especially women, are doing their bit to preserve and document their mother tongues
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December 21, 2023
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Painful Silence
Palestinian women have had to suffer the adverse impacts of war, while living within a deeply conservative and patriarchal society
4 min |
December 21, 2023
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Lopsided Language
Coverage of the Israel-Palestine war raises the larger question of bias in media representations
5 min |
December 21, 2023
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UNPROMISED AND PROMISED
Calls for a Greater Israel are gaining currency since the Hamas attack. But any move to do so would only lead to a wider regional war
5 min |
December 21, 2023
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Science of Electioneering
Unmasking the factors the BJP has used in every election since Modi became the supremo
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December 21, 2023
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END OF AN ERA?
A resurgent BJP may have hurt the Congress, but it has also belittled the importance of regional and smaller parties in national politics
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