The controversial passage is taken from a travelogue in which the author describes the conditions Savarkar was held in while in Andaman cellular jail in elaborate and embellished terms.
Tag: news
The Virus of Delegated Authoritarianism, or Why We Mustn’t Ignore JNU V-C’s Evasions
The patron-client relationship of the Union government with JNU is a reciprocal and cosy one.
US President Joe Biden Announces Student Debt Cancellation Plan
Facing generally low approval ahead of the midterms, Biden is hoping to get young voters on his side.
After Two-Year Wait, China to Resume Visas for Indian Students
Due to COVID-19 outbreak in China, over 23,000 Indian students, mostly studying medicine, returned home.
Why Rushdie’s ‘The Satanic Verses’ Remains So Controversial Decades After Publication
The novel goes to the heart of Muslim religious beliefs and challenges some of its most sensitive tenets.
Book Review: ‘Black Magic Women’ Delves into Little-Known Diverse Realities of Assam
The collection of stories brings to life the immensities of a multi-layered offering, covering societies from Assam’s varied locational space, which do not always find representation in contemporary fiction.
Freedom, the Shackled Architecture of Life
'The refurbished facade of freedom by periodic celebrations / sentinels the little nascent life / from the darkness...'
How Salman Rushdie Has Been a Scapegoat for Complex Historical Differences
Rushdie, great writer and outspoken defender of writers’ freedom of expression, has been under a fatwa for more than 30 years. He’s set to recover from a shock stabbing …
Hearing My Grandmother’s Stories of Partition Gave Me a New Lease on Life
A Gen-Z writer narrates how he grew up listening to stories of Partition from his grandparents about the chaos of the border crossing from a newly-minted Pakistan and the …
‘We Students Are With You’: Xavier’s University Students Reach Out to Ex-Prof, Protest on Campus
After a professor was forced to resign due to Instagram posts, SXU-Kolkata's administration draws flak; the authenticity of the complainant's letter comes under question.