Category Poetry
Bollywood’s borrowed shine: August 29, 2015, 12:07 AM IST Pavan K Varma in TOI Edit Page | Edit Page | TOI Gajendra Chauhan, better known as the actor who played the role of Yudhishthir in the Mahabharat serial, is in the eye of a… Continue Reading →
BY SIDDHARTH VARADARAJAN Come August 15, and India’s airwaves are full of patriotic film songs—from the stirring anti-colonial Ai Vatan, Ai Vatan, Hum Ko Teri Qasam, picturised on Shaheed Bhagat Singh and his comrades, and war-related tearjerkers like Ai Mere Watan Ke Logon to rousing anthems for the… Continue Reading →
Singing in dark times, about dark times Pragya Tiwari Safdar Hashmi. Photo courtesy Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust On the morning of the first day of the new year in 1989, a group of young men and women set out from… Continue Reading →
सुप्रीम कौर्ट सारे जहां से ऊपर हो गया जो 150 साल के काले इतिहास में नहीं हुआ वो रात के एक पहर में हो गया बलि के लिए बकरे की जगह इंसान चढ़ गया महामहिम बूढ़ा होने के बाद भी… Continue Reading →
From street plays held in the dead of the night to open rebellion, the story of the cultural resistance to the Emergency is one of many underground movements of artists and individuals. Anant Patwardhan’s film Prisoners of Conscience on political… Continue Reading →
Flag of Pakistan Esperanto: Flago de Pakistano Español: Bandera de Pakistán Français : Drapeau du Pakistan हिन्दी: पाकिस्तान का ध्वज Italiano: Bandiera del Pakistan ଓଡ଼ିଆ: ପାକିସ୍ତାନୀ ଝଣ୍ଡା Русский: Флаг Пакистана தமிழ்: பாக்கித்தான் கொடி Türkçe: Pakistan bayrağı Slovenščina: Državna zastava Pakistana… Continue Reading →
The Marathi poem, Gandhi Mala Bhetala (Gandhi met me), is a satirical critique of those who falsely claim to follow the path of Mahatma Gandhi The poem was first published in 1983. The poet was a class-III employee of the Bombay… Continue Reading →
UDHAV NAIG The Hindu Both Ambedkar and Periyar had same goals: to dismantle caste system. But, the chose different paths. “Mischievous attempt to divide the opposition to Brahminical hegemony” The controversy over de-recognition of Ambedkar-Periyar Study Circle in IIT Madras… Continue Reading →
A major criticism of the new law is that it can become an instrument of abuse as it confers the tax enforcement authorities with strong discretionary powers. As Congress MP from Thiruvananthapuram Shashi Tharoor points out, the new law essentially… Continue Reading →
BY DEBARSHI DASGUPTA Bijapur, Chhattisgarh: It is early December. A chill has started to descend along with the opaque dark that cloaks Bijapur’s jungles every night. A few locals in Bedre, a small village on the banks of the Indrawati and… Continue Reading →