The Three Questions, by Leo Tolstoy It once occurred to a certain king that if he always knew the right time to begin everything; if he knew who were the right people to listen to, and whom to avoid; and, above all, if he always knew what was the most important thing to do, he would… Read More Leo Tolstoy: The Three Questions (1885) / Lu Xun: Waiting for a Genius (1924)
In use since 2017, the existing set of school textbooks in Karnataka were certainly in need of revision: many of the chapters in sociology were outdated, the discussions in economics, political science, history and geography drab and listless, and typographical and grammatical errors were found in the hundreds in the social science books. But the… Read More Chandan Gowda: Keep party politics out of textbooks!
Over the past two centuries, most critiques of modernity have fallen into one of two camps. The first tends to see the modern age as the spawn of the tragic dissolution of Christian civilization, which had provided stable meaning and order for over a millennium, while the second emphasizes the failures of modernity to fulfill… Read More Book review: The Corruption of the Best – On Ivan Illich
This article is directed at the Indian diaspora worldwide. Read the article to find out why. Fifty years ago a young girl selling flowers on a city street in India wasn’t going to be a candidate for the civil services or even graduate from high school. At best, she’d become domestic help. That was… Read More Amit Shah: I am lazy. How do I change that?
A Delhi University professor has been booked for an allegedly objectionable social media post on the claims of a ‘Shivling’ being found at the Gyanvapi mosque in Varanasi. Ratan Lal, an associate professor of history at the Hindu College, has been booked under IPC sections 153-A (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion,… Read More Hindu College history professor booked for post on Gyanvapi ‘Shivling’ / Teachers, students demand immediate release of associate professor Ratan Lal
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NB: Well, if ‘humanities’ is defined restrictively to English language academia…DS At 12:55 p.m. on a Thursday in early January, the double doors of Salon K at the Marriott Marquis in downtown Washington hung open like an unwanted hug. The space within had been optimistically set up for an audience of maybe three dozen: six… Read More Jacob Brogan: Why Pursue a Career in the Humanities?
Anyone who thinks that the anti-hijab campaign is about discipline and dress code needs to have his or her head examined. And anyone who thinks it’s about the emancipation of Muslim women needs to have a frontal lobotomy without any further loss of time. For it’s clear as crystal that this is just the latest… Read More Avay Shukla: Give them back their hijab and education
NB: This public letter to the highest authorities in the land is of great significance. It’s contents reveal all that is to be said about the current situation in India, and leave me with only two things to say: one: more than judges, IAS officers and police officials, it is an active citizenry which is… Read More Your silence emboldens hate voices: Faculty, students of IIMs to PM
British universities have accepted almost £90m in funding from major oil companies since 2017, openDemocracy can reveal. Oxford, Cambridge and Imperial College London have been criticised for taking the most, with one MP branding the relationship between oil giants and universities “scandalous.” Imperial College London has accepted more than £54m, including £39m from Shell –… Read More British universities slammed for taking £90m from oil companies in four years
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