NB: Goa was my dear mother’s birthplace and childhood home. The events described below took place not far from her village, Saligaon. This is a beautiful story of life and fate. I have nothing to add to it except to wish this couple many years of the togetherness brought about by their chance encounter in… Read More Love and serendipity in Goa
First posted November 11, 2016 A few weeks ago, five people who were selling papers outside Hyde Park were arrested by the police for obstruction. When taken before the magistrates, they were all found guilty, four of them being bound over for six months and the other sentenced to forty shillings fine or a month’s… Read More George Orwell: Freedom of the Park (1945)
Trent Zimmerman As we farewell 2022, many of the world’s citizens will be hoping for a better new year. It is hard to look back on the past year – indeed couple of years – without a high degree of angst about the direction of our global community. We have been battered by a pandemic… Read More I find hope in people who show the best of humanity
First posted January 13, 2013 NB: These extracts are from the Book within a Book in Chapter 9 of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four; first published in 1949. Sixty fours years later, the dystopian vision contained in the book throws light on the contemporary world, its fascination with war, violence and the fanatical ideologies that justify a continuous system of thought… Read More Ignorance is Strength; Freedom is Slavery; War is Peace
Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present, controls the past: George Orwell, Nineteen eighty-four DENNIS S. JESUDASAN In an interview with The Hindu , Kesavan Veluthat, the General President of the 81st session of the Indian History Congress which concluded in Chennai on Thursday, shares his views on the ICHR, and whether there… Read More ‘ICHR publishes only papers of those playing second fiddles’
First posted September 13, 2017 While Hindu-right organisations, under the patronage of the Narendra Modi government, are claiming spaces within the spectrum of associations with instrumental roles to play in the India’s nationalist movement, the Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) – the primary government-sponsored institution for funding historical research and publications – has found itself… Read More Ajoy Ashirwad Mahaprashasta: ICHR Blocks Manuscript on Freedom Struggle Because It Makes the Sangh Look Bad, Alleges Historian
Harlem River talk to meTell me what you think aboutHarlem river I’m in love love love loveHarlem River talk to meWhere’ we headed nowHarlem River I’m in love love love loveAll because of you In my pearl and my diamond shoeI climbed a cloudNow i stole the moonHarlem RiverAll because of you And Harlem River… Read More Harlem River
Literature once filled in archival gaps by saying the unsayable. Now a younger generation is devising new modes of telling the story and finding new stories to tell. By Parul Sehgal Before it was an edict, and a death sentence, it was a rumor. To many, it must have seemed improbable; I imagine my grandmother, buying… Read More Seventy-five Years After Indian Partition
Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Dec 24 & Dec 31, 2022 Indian Economy & Banking Under the Sway of Global Capital | Arun Kumar Not Rooted in Public Culture, Hindutva is a Lone Militant | Radhakanta Barik Spread of 2020-21 Farmers Agitation in Haryana | Jaglan & Rajeshwari Bharat Jod Yatra is Evocative of the Spirit of Dandi… Read More Mainstream Double issue, December 31 2022
Dear Friends, Baragaon Weaves wishes you and your families a very Happy New Year. As always, in the New Year we offer you pure, exclusive and rare pashmina shawls, made by our handloom weavers in Kashmir. The pashmina yarn is hand spun, the way it is on a Gandhi Charkha; subsequently, the shawls are hand… Read More Pashmina Shawls on Discount
After the truth-shower 