Latest
-
Socialism and the Indian Constitution (part of a series of short volumes that Neera Chandoke and I are editing for the Centre for Equity Studies
Rooted in anti-colonial struggle, Indian socialism, despite its limitations, helped progress towards an egalitarian society. Can that pathway be reclaimed? India’s immensely respected economist and public intellectual Prabhat Patnaik masterfully assembles in the pages of a short monograph the sweep of India’s post-colonial economic history. This is in his forthcoming Socialism and the Indian Constitution (part of…
ALL Posts
-
A Division Bench of Justices S.S. Sundar and P. Dhanabal pass the orders on appeals filed by Music Academy and The Hindu Updated – December 13, 2024 10:53 pm IST – CHENNAI Mohamed Imranullah S.1READ LATERPRINT Singer T.M. Krishna. A Division Bench of the Madras High Court on Friday (December 13, 2024) set aside an interim injunction granted by…
-
I believe poetry can be a place of nourishment, a bounty, a feast. —Traci Brimhall, Poet Laureate of Kansas For as long as there have been writers, there have been texts that have been challenged, censored, burned, and banned. The stories of banned literature do not just belong in the history books; even today, some…
-
Dear friend,Israel cannot conduct its genocide against the Palestinians alone. Without US-led diplomatic support to backstop its impunity to international law, British surveillance flights, US financing and weaponry and global energy shipments, Israel’s war machine would grind to a halt. That’s why efforts to disrupt the flow of arms and energy are so vital — and…
-
Music & Literature: a humanities journal September 11, 2014by Keenan McCracken One of contemporary American fiction’s most lauded and prolific novelists, Richard Powers might also be described as the autodidact’s autodidact. An amateur musician and composer, former physicist, and self-taught computer programmer, Powers has become known for his deftness at tracing out the subtle interrelationships between…
-
By Maria Popova In a lifetime of living in this body, I have known no more powerful a homecoming than music — nothing roots us more firmly into the house of being, nothing levitates us more buoyantly to that transcendent place beyond marrow and mind. Stripped of its nihilistic drama, there is an elemental cry…
Knock nock 