Venue for a Speech on Tamas: A Chronicle of an Event That Should Never Have Happened

First posted December 5, 2011 By Dilip Simeon; published in Bruised Memories: Communal Violence and the Writer, by Tarun Saint (ed), Seagull Books, Calcutta, 2002 Early in the year of grace 1988 certain (dis)reputable members of the academic community in the University of Delhi organized a public address on an unspeakable subject by a reluctant speaker in an… Read More Venue for a Speech on Tamas: A Chronicle of an Event That Should Never Have Happened

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Susan Howe: The essence of Wallace Stevens: Roses, roses. Fable and dream. The pilgrim sun.

First posted October 23, 2015 A poem is a glass, through which light is conveyed to us. “March… Someone has walked across the snow, Someone looking for he knows not what.” “Singeth spells.” The poetry of Wallace Stevens makes me happy. This is the simple truth. Pleasure springs from the sense of fluid sound patterns… Read More Susan Howe: The essence of Wallace Stevens: Roses, roses. Fable and dream. The pilgrim sun.

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In Turning India into a Tyranny, Modi Has Made Economic ‘Crimes’ His Latest Weapon

Prem Shankar Jha Eight years into government by Narendra Modi, it is no longer possible to pretend that India’s multi-ethnic, multi-religious democracy is not in acute danger. The reason is the collapse of the judiciary, the only pillar of democracy that had remained standing after the second victory of the Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)… Read More In Turning India into a Tyranny, Modi Has Made Economic ‘Crimes’ His Latest Weapon

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Israel’s All-Out Assault on Rights Defenders: Palestinian Groups Raided, Closed; Researcher for Israeli Group Detained

By Omar Shakir | Israel and Palestine Director, Middle East and North Africa Division | @OmarSShakir | – ( Human Rights Watch ) – Three years ago, as the Israeli government prepared to deport me from Israel and Palestine over my human rights advocacy, I wrote in The Forward that, should the deportation proceed without sanction from the international community, it… Read More Israel’s All-Out Assault on Rights Defenders: Palestinian Groups Raided, Closed; Researcher for Israeli Group Detained

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