Category: Uncategorized
-
Book Review: Why I am not a Hindu woman: A personal story by Wandana Sonalkar
Why I am not a Hindu woman: a personal story by Wandana Sonalkar, New Delhi: Women Unlimited, 2021, pp 169. Wandana Sonalkar is a self-proclaimed atheist and in this autobiographical account titled ‘Why I am not a Hindu Woman’, Sonalkar critically reflects on her position on why she has chosen to renounce her religion. This…
-
Book Review: REIMAGINING THE WORLD
AZADI: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction. by Arundhati Roy ‘What lies ahead? Reimagining the world. Only that.’ With these above lines, Arundhati Roy ended her introduction and they reflect what Roy set out to do in the book ‘Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction’. In the nine essays in this book, most of which are previously published or given…
-
Archives: National Council of Labour Colleges and its role in Working Class Education
England of the 19th Century experienced the tremendous growth of the working class and middle class, alongside with growing of working class consciousness that came from the realisation of the exploitation of the industries and from the frustration due to subsequent failure of capitalists as well as the state in addressing the working class grievances.…
-
Archives: V.K. Krishna Menon at Tennis Club, 1928
A photograph of Tennis Club members at Malden, London on June 1928 found at LSE Library Archives. This caught my attention because the fourth person in the front row from the left is V.K. Krishna Menon. He was influenced by Annie Besant to pursue further studies in England. Menonjoined London School of Economics and Political Science to pursue BSc…
-
Reflections on ‘The Story of Ferdinand’ by Munro Leaf
‘Ferdinand’ is a familiar character now, thanks to the Animated film that came out in 2017. The storyline of this film is loosely based on the children’s book published in 1936 titled ‘The Story of Ferdinand’, written and illustrated by Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson respectively. The story is about a bull named ‘Ferdinand’. He…
-
LEARNING TO LIVE SUSTAINABLY
“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it” – H.D. Thoreau French Philosopher Michel de Montaigne said, “that to Philosophize is to Learn to Die”. This pessimism is shared by a plethora of thinkers for more than two and a half-century until Thoreau published ‘Walden’ in 1854, a treatise that…
-
GANDHI AND CHURCHILL: A COMMON FATE
Mahatma Gandhi and Winston Churchill are contemporaries of their age. But they are completely two different poles divided by oceans and ideologies. One is the apostle of non-violence and another one is an exponent of war and bloodshed. Whatever they may be in their lives, both destined to the same fate in their own countries,…
-
Nidhi Razdan’s Statement on Phishing Attack
Well Known Journalist Nidhi Razdan posted on her twitter account a statement about who she have been victim of a serious phishing attack. She wrote in the tweet: “I have been the victim of a very serious phishing attack. I’m putting this statement out to set the record straight about what I’ve been through. I…
-
Wrapping Up 2020
A Reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.”– George R. R. Martin If I was asked to write an epithet for 2020, I would like to say- “Here lies the year of multiple mutinies”. But this year gave some extra time to ‘read more and ‘read…
-
Daily Readings-2020
30/12/2020 How a film become something more: https://www.mkgandhi-sarvodaya.org/short/ev43.htm#:~:text=Back%20in%201962%2C%20a%20Gujarati,Mr.&text=Attenborough%20to%20read%20Fischer’s%20biography. The aam aadmi behind Attenborough’s Gandhi by Ramachandra Guha: https://www.hindustantimes.com/columns/the-aam-aadmi-behind-attenborough-s-gandhi/story-MnQTQj7haxzxtQoCAiEDkN.html Why I’m Losing Hope in India by Kiran Kumbhar: https://www.theindiaforum.in/article/why-i-m-losing-hope-india 29/12/2020 Farmers accept govt offer for talks tomorrow; Anna threatens ‘last stir’ by Tribune News Service: https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/nation/farmers-accept-govt-offer-for-talks-tomorrow-anna-threatens-last-stir-190861 Farmers protest: Veteran of three wars fights his fourth by…
rishvanth.com 