Book Review
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Between pleasure and purpose–A conversation with Damodar Mauzo
Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest…
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A nuanced narrative and beyond
By Dayem Mohammad Ansari The acumen of Shafey Kidwai doesn’t let him stay where the road ends. The seeker inside him not only jumps over the ditch but also succeeds in finding…
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A new book chronicles Institute of Public Enterprise’s history
The ‘New Education Policy’ and ‘The Atmanirbhar Bharat’ initiatives have been launched for the sustainable development of India by the Government of India. For this to happen, India needs robust institutions. In this…
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Review: Raza Mir’s book attempts to answer who Muhammad Iqbal truly was
In a recent column, thought leader Tavleen Singh could not have been more astounded that a BJP’s spokeswoman’s anti-Muslim vitriol was supplemented by the first verse from the couplet below. “Kuch baat hai ki…
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Memory, Archive Female Desire, and Beyond
Shafey Kidwai Does the yearning for sensuous pleasure invalidated by the social norms, cultural practices and the canon of public morality denote a means for reconciling with unpredictable, paradoxical and quotidian strands…
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Love: unfettered longing and beyond
Shafey Kidwai Since time gone by, humans have been enchanted by something that defies exclusivity of body and the spirit simultaneously and deflates the myth that cause-and-effect shape human thoughts and action.…
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Book Review: Revisiting past debates in fraught times; the China question
Talmiz Ahmad The authors present the foreign policy debate largely in the context of relations with China. They contrast Nehru’s world-view, anchored firmly in progressive anti-imperialism and “Asianism”, with Patel’s hardheaded and…
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Book Review: Revisiting past debates in fraught times
Talmiz Ahmad In these highly polarised times in India, when the ruling dispensation is questioning and reordering almost every idea and institution that has defined the country since Independence, it is not…