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Why members of centuries old Baghdadi Jewish community in Kolkata are facing each other in court?

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  • Posted on August 7, 2023

By Sayan Lodh
The intra-community strife came out in public with the release of the teaser of Ilmaz Syed’s documentary Beginning of an End.

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Book Review: Deborah Levy’s ‘Things I Don’t Want to Know’

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  • Posted on August 6, 2023

By Vagmi Singh
Packed with engaging writing, Deborah Levy’s ‘Things I Don’t Want to Know’, a living autobiography, offers powerful insights into the complexities of identity, power struggle and social justice.

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How Changing Cinematic Space Changes the Representations of Women

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  • Posted on August 1, 2023

By Shonima N
By focusing on small towns, the new Malayalam cinema has brought to life empowering female representations who are able to voice their resistance from the very place they stand to break free from the structures that was suffocating them since time immemorial.

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Some observations on Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’

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  • Posted on July 31, 2023July 31, 2023

By Rimli Bhattacharya
I end my essay with an open question to Nolan: was it necessary to speak of Bhagavad Gita when Oppie was having sex with his girlfriend? Did you witness it, Mr. Nolan?

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‘Listening to the Grasshoppers’: Provisional Field Notes from an ‘Obscure’ District Called Malda

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  • Posted on July 14, 2023

By Mursed Alam
Although it does not feature in the usual political commentary, it has become a common knowledge that the majority of the people involved in and dying in poll violence are Bengali Muslims.

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Travel: A Not-So-Distant Land

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  • Posted on July 3, 2023

By Jun A. Alindogan
My present residence is at the foothills of Montalban, Rizal amidst diminishing hills because of unregulated quarrying. The town is the last municipality in the province of Rizal that borders Bulacan province.

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Utterly Butterly Iconic: The Enduring Legacy of the Amul Girl 

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  • Posted on June 27, 2023

By Farnaz Fatima
As we bid farewell to Sylvester da Cunha, we celebrate this lasting legacy of the Amul Girl and her undeniable impact on the world of advertising.

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The Sanskritisation Debt Trap

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  • Posted on June 26, 2023

By Radhika Sabnis
In the case of Katkari people, the so called Sanskritisation has left them destitute, and deprived, instead of granting them a higher position in the social hierarchy.

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NALSAR Enforces Caste-Class Segregation in Serving Meals to its Workers

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  • Posted on June 25, 2023June 25, 2023

By Ajay Kranthi & Sandeep Pandey
But, the administration, possibly on the excuse of complaints from some students and their parents, wants to impose caste-class segregation in serving meals resembling separate lunch counters for blacks and whites in the Jim Crow infested United States.

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From Innovation to Emotion: The Role of Humans in the Music Industry

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  • Posted on June 25, 2023

By Shreyas Balasubramanian
AI can aid human work in the music industry through the use of AI-powered software and tools that can analyze and provide musicians with insights into the technical aspects of their music such as tempo, melody, and rhythm.

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Book Review: Namrata Pathak and Dibyajyoti Sarma (eds.), ‘Indira Goswami: Margins and Beyond’

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  • Posted on June 24, 2023

By Kabir Deb
For those who want to understand how a writer should penetrate the thick and insensitive skin of society, Indira Goswami: Margins and Beyond is a wonderful book to start with.

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Bearing Witness: A Critical Appreciation of Jafar Panahi’s ‘No Bears’

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  • Posted on May 30, 2023May 30, 2023

By Mubashir Karim
Jafar Panahi’s ‘No Bears’, if not anything else, is yet again, a testament of a self, caught in the whirlwind of a society that is yet to come to terms with a mechanical mesh committed to truth-telling through images.

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Buildings do not make a democracy vibrant

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  • Posted on May 28, 2023

By Shahid Jamal
Being a citizen of this country, I am neither interested in knowing who inaugurated the new parliament building nor in its design and architecture. My interest lies only in the functioning of the parliament.

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Wrestling through sport: The sound of silence

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  • Posted on May 28, 2023May 28, 2023

By Shruti Sharma
Think ‘Dangal’, ‘Shabhash Mithu’, ‘Chak de! India’, a sportswoman is the medium through whom a father’s dream or a male coach’s unfulfilled desire to win laurels for the country is accomplished. 

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Remembering Samaresh Majumder (1944-2023), the feminist at heart

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  • Posted on May 14, 2023May 14, 2023

By Sharmita Lahiri
Samaresh Kaku the person became more fathomable to me, through Samaresh Majumder the writer. He was indeed a literary creator who in real life did not deviate from the thoughts he presented in his works.

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Book Review:  Salman Rushdie’s ‘Victory City’

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  • Posted on May 5, 2023

By Chaandreyi Mukherjee
Rushdie’s narrative seduces and beguiles as it traces dynasties of kings and their reigns full of intrigue and passion, conversing animals, magical metamorphoses, charming forest goddesses and an enigmatic and supremely alluring storyteller.

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Book Review: ‘Home Anthology’, ed. by Gayatri Majumdar, Sekhar Banerjee and Gopal Lahiri

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  • Posted on April 29, 2023

By Nishi Pulugurtha
‘Home Anthology’ is marked by a “plurality of approach” and it is this plurality that strikes one as one reads the poems in it.

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The Anarchist Gandhi

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  • Posted on April 28, 2023April 28, 2023

By Anwesh Satpathy
Gandhian anarchism can be rightfully termed as a form of decolonial anarchism, rooted in the experience of India’s rural life.

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University Campus Socialisation in the Aftermath of COVID-19

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  • Posted on April 23, 2023April 23, 2023

By Mohammad Asif
Turkle and Friedmann warn that excessive dependency on technology is eroding the organic connectivity by undoing us as humans, which we are precisely experiencing in our post-COVID-19 socialisations.

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Book Review: ‘Temple Lamp: Verses on Banaras’, translated from Persian by Maaz Bin Bilal

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  • Posted on April 10, 2023April 10, 2023

By Mohammad Asim Siddiqui
Bilal’s translation is enriched by an extremely well-written and comprehensive introduction about the poem running into more than fifty pages.

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