Author: Rishvanth Reddy Mucheli
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Translation: Savitri (Poem by Santakumari)
“Savitri!” “Yama Dharmaraja!” “I am delighted by your truthfulness… Make a wish It will be granted” “Grant the liberation for women Swamy!” “Aha! Impossible! Except that Ask for another wish” “Destroy the male dominance Swamy!” “You feeble one, suffering from tuberculosis, Forgetting that even I am a man You are trying to insult me! But…
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Ranajit Guha: A Tribute
Ranajit Guha breathed his last on 28th April 2023 at Vienna Woods in Austria. Indisputably, he was the greatest historian of the past century, and his passing away is an intimate loss to the field of social sciences. Guha was born on 23rd May 1922, in Siddhakati village of Bakarganj district, now in Bangladesh. He was…
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Translation: To Be Born Again (Malli Puttani by M.M. Keeravaani)
Rising like waves in a roaring sea,my desire to cleanse my heart. Flickering like a lamp about to extinguish,my desire to live like a human. With a new life in my heart, eyes and being,To be born again…the human in me…To be born again…the human in me… – M.M. Keeravani Song from a film Vedam…
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Archives: The Professor by Nissim Ezekiel
Remember me? I am Professor Sheth. Once I taught you geography. Now I am retired, though my health is good. My wife died some years back. By God’s grace, all my children Are well settled in life. One is Sales Manager, One is Bank Manager, Both have cars. Other also doing well, though not so…
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Archives: One day I cursed that mother-fucker God. by Keshav Meshram
One day I cursed that mother-fucker God. He just laughed shamelessly. My neighbour – a born-to-the pen Brahman- was shocked. He looked at me with his castor-oil face and said, ‘How can you say such things to the Source of the Indescribable, Qualityless, Formless Juggernaut? Shame on you for trying to catch the dharma-hood in…
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ARGUMENTS WITH BILGRAMI: REVISITING GANDHI’S IDEAS OF SECULARISM
Secularism is one of the important pillars of India’s Constitution and the guiding light of its national polity. “In the early years after independence, it was believed that secularism would fast acquire a consensus as a value underlying Indian polity. But today it is under fierce attack” (Mohanty, 1989). Notions of Secularism are shrouded by…
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Archives: Self-introduction by Neerav Patel
be my guest someday, sawarna [high caste hindu]. if you want to feel the pangs of woe come in the guise of an untouchable. see, yonder is the way to our village from the city. avoid that tallest mansion – our young girls are seduced there customarily. that landlord is the king of our village…
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Social Progress Index: States and Districts of India 2022
Happy to have been a part of preparing ‘Social Progress Index: States and Districts of India’ report for 2022 SPI is a comprehensive tool that can serve as a holistic measure of a country’s social progress at the national and sub-national levels. The index assesses states and districts based on 12 components across three critical…
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