Politics & Society
Mukherjee P.

Ramanujan Unplugged

The facts of Victor Jara’s tragic death are well-documented. Arrested in the aftermath of a military coup d’etat, Jara was one of many political prisoners led to the National Football Stadium where many were tortured, beaten and executed. Although his

Music
Saswat Pattanayak

Woody Guthrie: I Was In The Revolution…

Woody Guthrie, the labour organiser and agitator who redefined the entire genre of folk music through his political philosophy, was an unrepentant Marxist-Leninist, an avowed supporter of Joseph Stalin and a lifelong adherent of Communism. By today’s standard, it is

Politics & Society
Nitasha Kaul

Strangers of Sofia

The space of a city is the emblematic theatre of modernity. Somewhere amid the solidity of the buildings and the monuments, the mobility of the construction scaffoldings and the jostling vehicles, the interstitiality of the park benches and the work

Politics & Society
Nitasha Kaul

…Of A Woman’s Body

From the ancients to the moderns, in almost every culture globally, women are seen primarily in terms of their ‘difference’ from the standard norm of the male body. This plays out in many ways: If a man is provider, the

Politics & Society
Saswat Pattanayak

The New Face of Truth: Julian Assange and the WikiLeaked World

“All governments lie, but disaster lies in wait for countries whose officials smoke the same hashish they give out.” (I. F. Stone) In many ways, Julian Assange is the “Izzy” of new journalism. Like Stone, Assange has not flinched from