By Puja Roy
“Aaj Jane Ki Zid Na Karo” remains as one of the most viewed songs on YouTube with many young artists across the globe doing covers for the song. However, amidst all this, we have blissfully forgotten about the one person who was behind the immortal lines of this masterpiece – Fayyaz Hashmi
By Amrita Sharma
I wrote our names upon each rock,
Of luminous screens and flashing slates,
In blacks and whites and thousand fonts,
That morphed along a tenuous carve.
By Samiya Athar
Since the people do not have money to buy oil, salt, spices, they sell about half of the ration they get so that they can buy these items.
By Umang Kumar
He knew about the whole business of “paisa phenkna” – the luxury to spend from the vast disposable incomes and the wealth accruing from the legacies of our privileged backgrounds…he did not need a Marx or even a Thomas Piketty to tell him about class conflict and inequalities in the world.
By Rashid Askari
Universities are like bicycles. If you don’t ride and keep pushing the pedals, they will fall. So, whatever happens, they need to be kept functional. We have to think up and implement education strategies in view of this whole spectrum of natural, environmental, social, political, cultural and other related issues.
By Ananya Dutta Gupta
Not only national and global leaders speaking on electronic media and social network but also common citizens conversing at the dinner table have been drawing an analogy between the pandemic and war in terms of the nature and scale of the campaign of prevention, treatment and cure.
By Shuma Talukdar
Vietnam is the first country to come up with a national ecocide law given its horrible experience in the Vietnam War, which devastated its environment.
By Harsh Vardhan
As Marx’s writing are critical of capitalism and liberal tradition, from the very date of its publication, Weber’s essay became a critique of Marxism and thereby of the socialist project.
By Aarti Mangal
Why cannot all stakeholders of education think about catering to the food and health requirements of the students as well as their families at a priority basis?
By Ramsha Aveen
Covid-19 fortunately or unfortunately has opened up new possibilities to explore the meaning of death; it has subtly demarcated the death from the performance of death.
By Umang Kumar
This is how it kills, George
like a knee on the neck
bearing down
to crush you
constricting breath
By Mahvish Shahab Seene mein jalan aankhon mein toofan sa kyun hain, Iss sheher mein har…
By Sekhar Banerjee
Calcutta is hermaphrodite like a red hibiscus
or a tomato or pumpkin or a horse chestnut
By Soma Mandal
Rehana Fathima, one of the six non-Hindu social activists, who tried to bring down the period barricade surrounding the Sabarimala Temple in Kerala has been sacked by the telecom giant BSNL for her immodest and indecent public behaviour.
By Ananya S Guha
Effective teaching can be done by intuition and by understanding intuitively the levels of comprehension that exist in a classroom.
By Nishi Pulugurtha
Everyone was talking of the jhor. As I was eating rice, saag and fish, Dida told us about the jhor. She said it had a name, Amphan.
By Moinak Dutta
So they look around
Like a stupefied lot,
Totally clueless.
By Khalid Jawed
In Qissa, we do not find the Irrfan Khan of other films: style of dialogue delivery, facial expression, gait, reflexes, mannerism and his entire body language are pronouncedly different.
By Malvika Sharma
Aapa gives us courage through her Zenana, and asks us to shed this fear and shame, be naked, and let the world close its eyes in case our nakedness bothers them.
By Aniruddha Babar
Ambedkar believed that the problem of the minorities and the Scheduled Castes were not only related to the social and political atrocities but also to various economic issues.
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