Rabindranath Tagore - Different Truths

January 1, 2017
Sarika Sarkar Das
Travel & Food

Shantiniketan: The Land of Red Earth and the Legacy of Tagore

The lal matir desh (red earth countryside), Shantiniketan, is closely related with Tagore. The mud houses are so nicely decorated. In the digital age, they still make these houses with mud...

December 24, 2016
Shruti Nagvanshi
Advocacy, Subaltern & Dalits

Speech of Lenin at the Recent Rev. M.A. Thomas National Human Rights Award-2016

Lenin Raghuvanshi’s passionate acceptance speech at the recent Rev. M.A. Thomas National Human Rights Award-2016 ceremony, once again shows the deep commitment and dedication of his life’s avowed mission. A firebrand...

October 2, 2016
Sreelata Menon
History & Culture, Profile, Special Feature

Gandhi with Gandhi: The Mahatma and Indira Priyadarshini

“Here is a mantra. A short one that I give you, you may imprint it in your hearts and let every breath of yours give expression to it. The mantra...

August 4, 2016
Piyali Callahan
Potpourri

The Driving Force

Piyali works at a public library in a relatively diverse neighbourhood. The author sees the melting pot that America truly is, in the library, where immigrants from different countries come together...

July 26, 2016
Arindam Roy
Books

Poetry of Politics in Koshy’s Allusions to Simplicity

Ampat V. Koshy’s latest anthology of poems, Allusions to Simplicity: Collected Poems, is a political statement of the celebrated poet. He is in the tradition of Wordsworth, Coleridge and Arnold in...

May 6, 2016
Lily Swarn
Humour

Sing, and Louder Sing…

Lily takes a tongue-in- cheek look at music and singing in this humorous piece. An aged man is but a paltry thing, A tattered coat upon a stick, unless ...

April 14, 2016
Madhumita Ghosh
Criticism

The Bard and the Baul

Madhumita translates a poem of Tagore, whom she calls, Baul. She quotes a few sonnets of Shakespeare, who is better known as the Bard. Separated by continents and centuries, the...