मुक्तिबोध शृंखला : 3 “न नेमि बाबू, इस प्रकार तो काम नहीं चलने का. आखिर frustration है तो रहे, वह इतनी बुरी चीज़ नहीं जितना उसका gloom. …पर ज़रा सोचिए तो सही. कि ज़िंदा रहने का हक तो हमें है ही.” मुक्तिबोध नेमिचंद्र जैन को हौसला दिला रहे हैं. उन दोनों के बीच पत्राचार में … Continue reading हार्दिक अंधकार की आँखें →
मुक्तिबोध शृंखला:2 “मैं कुछ शिकायत करना चाहता था इस दुनिया के खिलाफ लेकिन मैं रुक गया, सोचते हुए कि आखिर मैं अपने को दुनिया से अलग क्यों मान लूँ. दुनिया का खाकर, दुनिया का पीकर, दुनिया के मनुष्य से प्रेम कर, उससे अलग समझना अपने स्व को ज़रूरत से अधिक ऊँचा रखना है—दुनिया ने हमको … Continue reading मुक्तिबोध के ‘नौजवान का रास्ता’ →
Legendary freedom fighter and Civil Rights activist Harohalli Srinivasaiah Doreswamy popularly known as HS Doreswamy breathed his last yesterday. The 103 year-old Gandhian, who kept the ‘conscience of Karnataka till his very last breath, and was the tallest public intellectual, who appeased none and spared none‘ would be remembered for his enthusiasm for public causes … Continue reading Legendary freedom fighter HS Doreswamy is no more →
यह मुक्तिबोध की जन्मशती नहीं है. कोई ऐसा अवसर जिसके बहाने कवि या रचनाकार पर वार्ता फिर से शुरू करने का आयोजन किया जाए. एक तरह से यह मुक्तिबोध को असमय, बिना किसी प्रसंग के पढ़ने का निमंत्रण है. हर दूसरे दिन हम मुक्तिबोध के साथ हाजिर होंगे. मुक्तिबोध शृंखला;1 “प्रिय नेमि बाबू, आपका पत्र … Continue reading मुक्तिबोध : हृदय के पंख टूटने पर →
[Buffeted by many kinds of emotions, unable to think straight, eyes and mind clouded again and again with tears and the most tenebrous, threatening emotional clouds — this state of mind has been constant in me since many months. I have not been able to compose myself enough to write political commentary in these tumultuous … Continue reading triumphalist torturers: or, life in kerala is no breeze →
Recently, on fieldwork in a peri-urban panchayat in Kerala devastated by illegal large-scale granite quarrying, a local resident pointed us to what looked like a hillock. It was covered with vegetation — and flowers of a pleasant lilac — which made a very pretty sight — and to the naked eye, looked as solid as … Continue reading Molehills from mountains and other stories from kerala →
Over the past one year, I have been trying to make a college in Kerala – in a women’s college in Kerala– take some action against one of their faculty members who rained abuse on me publicly, including a public assertion about his possession of a penis, at a seminar in which I was an … Continue reading The gender between men’s legs and other learnings from a college in kerala →
Dear Friends at the WCC Seared by the news this morning, and knowing well that all of you are as burned as I am by it, I let my mind wander to graze and find its own source of comfort. It wandered, to my surprise, to a completely unexpected place: to some writings of a … Continue reading The Pride of piecemeal engineering : An open letter to the wcc →
Even in a future in which books are outlawed, ideas cannot be vanquished. “You may burn my books and the books of the best minds in Europe, but the ideas those books contain have passed through millions of channels and will go on,” wrote Helen Keller, in An Open Letter to German Students in 1933. Keller’s How I … Continue reading A history of conservative strike on books →
Received via SAHELI WOMEN’S RESOURCE CENTRE We condemn the horrific rape and murder of a young Dalit woman from Hathras, UP. We stand with the family in their sorrow. Extend support, solidarity and rage.
