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Vedic mnemonics—how Sanskrit oral tradition used poetic meter & memory

GN Devy - August 10, 2025

When a Dalit man refused quota: ‘You are blocking an open category seat of an upper caste’

Losing OCI was an intimate shame at first. It freed me later: Aatish Taseer

Indian prisons suffer from a crisis of compassion. Those caged aren’t guilty, just unprotected

Praying for rain won’t help India. Problem is man-made, why pray to god asked Dabholkar

Narendra Dabholkar - June 25, 2019

Maharashtra’s governor in 1992 asked citizens to pray for rain. Rationalist Narendra Dabholkar wrote why we must be scientific not superstitious.

During Emergency, Jayaprakash Narayan was detained in a hospital & could have been poisoned

Rama Goyal - June 25, 2019

In his memoirs, J.P. Goyal, a key lawyer for Raj Narain in his case against Indira Gandhi, wrote about meeting detained opposition leaders during the 1975 Emergency.

Siri, Cortana, Alexa: Why our AIs have personalities and a female voice

James Vlahos - June 23, 2019

Conversation designers widely report that people flirt with, sexually proposition, and even harass bots.

Why India’s prime ministers give their Independence day speech from Delhi’s Red Fort

Giles Tillotson - June 23, 2019

Every year on 15 August, the serving prime minister mounts Aurangzeb’s barbican to address the cameras, and the nation.

‘RSS is family’ and what to do with non-Hindus: An RSS trainee’s camp notebook

Walter Andersen - June 22, 2019

Many RSS camp participants keep notebooks, in which they record the words of patriotic songs, take notes on physical exercises, and games.

Argumentative & individualist – Why Modi was an unusual RSS swayamsevak

Swapan Dasgupta - June 20, 2019

Whereas many RSS apparatchiks were grounded in inherited certitudes, Modi was forever pushing the frontiers of his own intellectual development.

Grammy-nominated Lakshmi Shankar’s dream debut was shattered by gossip and jealousies

Kavita Das - June 15, 2019

Singer Lakshmi Shankar’s interest in Hindustani music was by now unshakable and she was not ready to give up on her dream.

But where will I live? The right to residence of domestic violence victims in India

Pinki Mathur Anurag - June 14, 2019

The centrality of securing women’s right to adequate housing as a vital step in the fight against domestic violence needs be recognised urgently.

What was Amit Shah like as home minister of Gujarat? Biographers give an insight

Anirban Ganguly - June 13, 2019

After 2008 Ahmedabad blasts, Gujarat took down the terrorists and as Shah had promised, such acts were never again repeated in Gujarat.

Hindutva rise must be pinned on historians who told us Hindus, Muslims lived peacefully once

Kapil Komireddi - June 11, 2019

Imperialism, for India’s ‘secular’ historians, was destructive only when Europeans did it. When Asians did it, it was a cultural exchange programme.

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Book Excerpts

Vedic mnemonics—how Sanskrit oral tradition used poetic meter & memory

When a Dalit man refused quota: ‘You are blocking an open category seat of an upper caste’

Losing OCI was an intimate shame at first. It freed me later: Aatish Taseer

Indian prisons suffer from a crisis of compassion. Those caged aren’t guilty, just unprotected

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