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HASSAN JAVID Updated 2014-02-03 11:39:03 ONE of the foundational tropes of the official nationalist narrative in Pakistan, repeated in millions of textbooks and on thousands of screens every day, is that Partition was necessary to prevent the Muslims of the subcontinent… Continue Reading →
Reviewed by Shalini Rawat Islam: Gender Justice by Asghar Ali Engineer Gyan Publishing House. Pages 312. Rs 900 ASGHAR Ali Engineer, lovingly called ‘Dr Engineer,’ was a Bohra cleric’s son who tirelessly campaigned all his life against religious fundamentalism, intolerance and gender… Continue Reading →
T. Ramakrishnan, The Hindu, Dec 23.2013 Special Arrangement UNDERSTANDING BHAGAT SINGH: Chaman Lal; Aakar Books, 28 E Pocket IV, Mayur Vihar Phase I, Delhi-110091. Rs. 550. An important work that throws light on the life & times of Bhagat Singh In… Continue Reading →
A. FAIZUR RAHMAN, The Hindu , Dec 23, 2013 Special ArrangementJIHAD AND OTHER ESSAYS: Asghar Ali Engineer; Pub. by The Book People, an imprint of Olive, East Nadakkavu, Kozhikode-673011. Rs. 595. Muslim orthodoxy has always claimed Islam to be one… Continue Reading →
Tuesday, 29 October 2013 09:30By David Swanson, War Is a Crime | Book Review Ann Jones’ new book, They Were Soldiers: How the Wounded Return from America’s Wars — The Untold Story, is devastating, and almost incomprehensibly so when one considers that virtually all of… Continue Reading →
For equality Ambedkar tried a fundamental reform of Hindu personal laws, in vain REVIEW Manu, FIaw-Giver Matters of gender, and their centrality in Ambedkar’s work MARY E. JOHN AGAINST THE MADNESS OF MANU: B.R. AMBEDKAR’S WRITINGS ON BRAHMANICAL PATRIARCHY SELECTED AND… Continue Reading →
By Deepti Menon, New Indian Express 12th May 2013 12:00 AM Photos Protests by women fighting for their rights have been part of a long history of feminist struggle. Feminism is not being part of an organisation; rather it takes inspiration… Continue Reading →
EPW,Vol – XLVII No. 41, October 13, 2012 | Kannan Kasturi Communities, Commons and Corporations by Perspectives (New Delhi: Perspectives), 2012; pp 164, Rs 100. Kannan Kasturi ([email protected]) is an independent researcher and writes on public interest and policy. Several hundred million… Continue Reading →
Review by Dilip Simeon Disenchanting India: Organized Rationalism and Criticism of Religion in India-By Johannes Quack Oxford University Press, New York, 2012 ISBN 978-0-19-981260-8; 978-0-19-981262-2 (pbk) Review by Dilip Simeon, for H-Asia, a part of H-Net: http://www.h-net.org/ asia/ On March… Continue Reading →
By Bachi Karkaria, Mumbai Mirror | Feb 16, 2014, 12.00 AM IST Gloria Steinem with Bachi Karkaria at Jaipur Lit Fest 2014 Hot and cool (depending on which way you measure attitude) feminist icon Gloria Steinem discusses women, violence and the male ‘fix’… Continue Reading →