Between the Lines
The pandemic is telling us that globalization and its transmission of injustices and exploitation of the weak and Nature’s bounty have screwed our earthly home. Band-aids won’t work. Ashish Kothari on what could.…[Read More]…
That’s Life!!!
While a 0.125 micron organism has brought the World to its knees and mankind is in a race to find a vaccine to contain the COVID19 virus Girijaa Upadhyay reflects on the mutating nexus between Man and Nature …[Read More]…
Personal Notes
The coronavirus has swept away a generation of wisdom-keepers, WWII survivors, storytellers, parents, and grandparents in Bergamo, Italy. An anthropologist mourns with her community—the hardest hit in the country—and asks all of us the most difficult questions of this pandemic.…[Read More]…
Visual Spaces
In this critical review of Satyajit Ray’s first children film made fifty years ago, Darius Cooper visits his oeuvre to offer insights into the legend’s take on music, masculinity and inter-personal relations in his films…[Read More]…
Between the Lines
For writer Annie Zaidi the “lockdown felt like a physical enactment of my inner world—a sense of siege, of caution and confusion. ”Then she hears of the migrants fleeing; of Muslims demonized She feels the need to bear witness to the fires of a hate campaign that the pandemic will fuel. …[Read More]…
Personal Notes
Two poets discuss life and letters creating an aura of magic with words in conversations without maps. Time stands still as Shamsur Rahman Faruqi and Asif Raza engage with each other creating a dialogic musicality. …[Read More]…
That’s Life!!!
In a pioneering study, Jan Sahas did a rapid assessment report through a telephonic survey with 3,196 migrant workers that portrays abysmal conditions of life, extreme vulnerabilities in the pandemic; conditions that call out our moral irresponsibility, official indifference towards a vast majority of the working poor.…[Read More]…
Between the Lines
A wide spectrum of opinion admits the coronavirus pandemic is exposing inequality and poverty in stark terms. But its management (or lack of it) will do more says Ashoak Upadhyay.…[Read More]…
Bookshelf
Three texts whose readings may shed some light on questions rarely pondered as victims of a gross, violent materialism. Readings for the perplexed seething isolation forced on us by a microbe.…[Read More]…
That’s Life!!!
Combating the pandemic requires immediate responses in terms of universal health and treatment facilities and strategies to reduce the possibilities of recurrence. Vikalp Sangam offers a view. …[Read More]…