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Ramachandra Guha: Why India’s claims of being vishwaguru are foolish fantasies

However, the ideal of India being a vishwamitra – a Friend of All – may still have some worth.

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Has rape outrage brought us to a dead end?

In a deeply patriarchal and casteist society, only some women’s violation matters. Only some women elicit the anguish of the crowd. 

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An American journalist’s friendship with Mahatma Gandhi gave India a megaphone around the world

An admirer of the Mahatma, William Shirer presented India’s message to his readers in the US and Europe, who until then had been fed on the British narrative.

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‘The Provincials’: Sumana Roy breaks the artificial barriers about the provinces in her book

Roy gives shape to the personality of the provincial, including its predilections, pronunciations and patterns.

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‘Talashnama’: Novel about religious fundamentalism is testament to the political significance of art

Ismail Darbesh’s book, translated from the Bengali by V Ramaswamy, explores intricacies, internal divisions, disputed practices, and reforms in Islam.

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In Girish Kasaravalli’s ‘Ghatashraddha’, the ‘complex question of oppression’

The Film Heritage Foundation’s restoration of the Kannada classic will be shown at the Venice Film Festival.

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‘Woman, Life, Freedom’: Marjane Satrapi shows freedom is incomplete without women’s liberation

Satrapi assembles writers, artists, and scholars to situate the events following Mahsa Amini’s killing in the broader context of Iranian politics.

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