(The Guardian) Human Rights Watch blames police inertia and government failures for lack of justice for those affected
Continue reading →Colin Todhunter, Off-Guardian India celebrates its independence from Britain on 15 August. However, the system of British colonial dominance has been replaced by a new hegemony based on the systemic rule of transnational capital, enforced by global institutions like the … Continue reading →
https://thewire.in/books/v-s-naipaul-gave-us-both-richly-textured-islands-and-interchangeable-caricatures After his turn to non-fiction, he would never again look at life outside the West on its own terms: India, the Caribbean and Africa would become faded backdrops on which to project a vision of the West, England in … Continue reading →
“He looked like a terrorist!” How a drive in rural India ended in a mob attack and a lynching These stories of mob lynchings (this one in Reuters) are so depressing. I’m beginning to feel that there is something more … Continue reading →
The Guardian has this article: “Is India’s 100 smart cities project a recipe for social apartheid?”. ‘The emphasis on surveillance underlines the stratified, elitist nature of smart cities, according to the academic and author Pramod Nayar. “Smart cities will be heavily … Continue reading →
Fascinating story of Africans who arrived in India and sometimes became kings. Rare images document the centuries-long history of Africans in India.
Continue reading →Why Free Speech Loses in India : The New Yorker Comprehensive article about Penguin’s capitulation in Wendy Doniger affair (and other recent cases.
Continue reading →Yesterday finished Khushwant Singh’s Delhi, which tells the story of the capital from invasion to invasion, massacre to massacre, and concludes with the pogrom on the Sikhs in 1984. And today I was reading a horrifying story about the Muzzafanagar … Continue reading →
early morning. In Hermann Hesse’s novel, Siddhartha, the Buddha claims three qualities: ‘I can think. I can wait. I can fast.’ And on this vacation I have done a lot of the first two. And now, the plane is delayed … Continue reading →