By Ananya Dutta Gupta
To me it seemed that Durga is the embodiment of this spirit of primitivity, apotheosised into heritage, which is retrieved and revived annually, ritualistically, as a token of reverence and acknowledgement, precisely because it cannot be lived with.
Tag: Modernity
By Mohammad Asim Siddiqui
All through the book, Satpathy argues how the very idea of nationalism, which contains many contradictions, is not only a result of some controversies but it also leads to many fresh controversies.
By Umar Timol
During a trip to Trivandrum, India, in 2019, a city which greatly resembles Port-Louis, the capital of Mauritius, I visited her grave which is found at the Palayam Jumah Masjid, a mosque, accompanied by my Indian poet friend, Chandramohan.
By Moosa Khan
A basic tension between modernity and Islam arises, when philosophically modernity privileges reason as the main source of knowledge and the source of law and ethics in human beings, while Islam relies on revelation as the primary source of knowledge and on God as the source of law and ethics.