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Roger Bingham Obituary: Friend, Educator, Storyteller
The sad passing of a man who possessed the special quality of effortlessly making friends with everyone from teenagers to octagenarians would invoke different emotions and feelings in...
In Others, Oct 24, 2023
Memorability of Political Yatras: Bharat Jodo and Congress's Myopic Strategizing
It is already less than a year to the next Lok Sabha election which naturally means that the Indian political landscape is more vibrant than ever in the past four years. The formation...
In Politics, Oct 08, 2023
The Many Expressions of Advaita's Absolute Truth and Guru Nanak's Succinctness
The Nasadiya Sukta (also known as the Hymn of Creation) of the Rigveda is one of the most iconoclastic and questioning (in a dialectic sense) inquiries into the origin of the universe...
In Religion, Oct 08, 2023
IIIT Allahabad Global Alumni Meet Guest of Honor Speech
YouTube link to view the speech delivered at the event: click here
In Others, Nov 05, 2022
Way Ahead of Bollywood: The Exceptional Realism of the Parallel Tamil Cinema Tackling Social Issues
Since last December, four of the five highest-grossing Indian movies have been from South India namely KGF: Chapter 2, RRR, Ponniyin Selvan: Part I, and Pushpa: The Rise - Part 1. Th...
In Cinema, Oct 21, 2022
Hijab in Schools and Kashmir Files Controversies
In recent days, two subjects have gathered much attention in India: the Hijab verdict of the Karnataka High Court and the movie Kashmir Files. Much has been written about many thinker...
In Religion, Cinema, Mar 20, 2022
Bundelkhand's Multicultural Milieu: Narmada-Jamna Tehzeeb
The Doab region of present-day Uttar Pradesh has for millennia been amongst the most fertile regions in the world. As the Harappan Civilization mostly concentrated along the Indus and...
In History, Culture, Religion, Feb 01, 2022
Walking Behind Rama's Footsteps
India is an old and diverse entity clothed as a young nation-state. Unlike other cultural entities and nations bound by a single language, religion, or race, India houses a multitude ...
In History, Culture, Religion, Jan 03, 2022
The Illusion of Free Will: Reflections Based on Self-experience
Among all the illusions that we human beings suffer from, I believe that the illusion of us possessing free will is the most pervasive and yet inconspicuous. The concept of “free will...
In Philosophy, Oct 10, 2021
Three Contradictions at the Heart of Political Islam: Muslim World and the Taliban in Perspective
The sudden and tragic turn of events in Afghanistan has once again brought Political Islam (that too one of its most virulent variants) under the world’s urgent attention. Twenty year...
In InternationalAffairs, Religion, Aug 18, 2021
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