Those that killed your body / Are dead in the soul. // They are the leaves that fall, / You the trunk, the root, the soil.
Even as Godse is Celebrated, ‘Gandhi Zinda Hai!’
It is easy to despair at times like these, but as long as there are schools, teachers and parents determined to talk about constitutional values, democracy has a fighting …
Seventy-Five Years of Gandhi’s Assassination: An Artist’s Retrospective
In a series of artworks, an artist depicts the meaning of Gandhi's assassination.
My Experiments with Attenborough’s ‘Gandhi’
Being the most vulnerable and impressionable, children and teenagers are often the first to reflect a deep shift in society.
New Passport Rankings Show That the World Is Opening Up – But Not for Everyone
A passport from the United Arab Emirates will get you into far more destinations than one from Afghanistan. Gaps like this have big implications for people’s ability to travel, …
RRR’s Abuse and Distortion of History Is Vulgar
The movie was everything I expected it to be: extremely well made and lavishly mounted. The story was absurd and the distance from reality was of solar proportions.
How Edgar Allan Poe Became the Darling of the Maligned and Misunderstood
Is the writer’s appeal less about the power and complexity of his prose, and more about the view of him as a perennial underdog?
Why Foreign Universities Are Reluctant to Establish Campuses in India
The proposed UGC guidelines are ill-conceived and populist, and hardly take note of the educational and financial interests of foreign universities.
In Unequal Countries Like India, the Ethics of Public Access AI Look Different
For years, it was anticipated that public access AI would trigger ethical questions. Now that ChatGPT3 has jumped the gun, we need answers quickly.
The Memoir ‘I’m Glad My Mom Died’ Offers a Case Study in How Capitalism Rewards Psychopathy
Former 'iCarly' child actor Jennette McCurdy’s new memoir exposes how a profit-hungry entertainment industry encouraged the abusive behaviour of her mother.