Naimisha Forest
Inequality Obscured
When is a picture worth less than a thousand words? A recent piece in the MIT Technology Review under the headline “These drone photos show urban inequality around the world” could provide some answers. The article features photographer Johnny Miller’s “Unequal Scenes” project, which wants to raise . . .
Posted in: indiainequalityphotographspovertyurban
Scenes from two weddings
England and India
The first wedding was in England, at an 18th-century country house, set in an estate of some hundreds of acres of parkland and farms. No, I hadn’t been invited there by that dignified nobleman the Duke of Omnium. Many such places now run from a spreadsheet, restored and rented out by the day for middle-class weddings, anniversary . . .
Posted in: britaincasteethnicityeuropegeneticsidentity politicsimmigrationindiamarriagemulticulturalismnationruralurban
'Laughing in shy confusion'
This selection of ‘Poems from the Sanskrit’ was a favorite among a group of friends, well, a while ago. On hot summer afternoons, after lectures, we would sit in one of the 
cool stone alcoves that ran on one side of the college courtyard, boys and girls, and read aloud these poems, with many a smile and warm glance exchanged, . . .
The Cloud Messenger
The National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) in Mumbai is hosting a ‘Festival of Premiering Plays’, one of which, ‘I, Cloud’, by the Story Circus theatre company, I like especially for the inspiration it takes in Kalidasa, the supreme figure in classical Sanskrit literature.
The setting for . . .
de te fabula narratur: India in your future
“Quid rides? Mutato nomine de te fabula narratur”, says Horace in his ‘Satires’ (1.1.69): “Why do you laugh? Change but the name, and it is of you the story is told.” Karl Marx quotes the Roman poet in his Preface to the First German Edition of ‘Capital’ (1867), to warn Germans they . . .
Entertainment of an Improving Kind
a narrative of hatred, honor, courage,
of virtue, love, ideals and wickedness,
and of a war so terrible, it marked
the threshold between one age and the next.
Posted in: epicindiamahabharatasanskrit
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