Penned Down!
Vasily Grossman, Andrei Platonov and Boris Pilnyak... Joseph Stalin's authoritarian rule had failed to suppress the voices of these three men o' letters! Their pens rightly proved to be mightier than the sword.
(Un)Learning Inequality…
The patient was seen lying helpless on the operation table, while the doctor was busy performing the much required operation. The patient was the son of the doctor, but the […]
Inwards: In Words…
In an article titled ‘Space of Literature‘ (1955; trans. 1982), French Philosopher Maurice Blanchot (September 22, 1907 – February 20, 2003) magnificently portrayed the limitation of an author. According to […]
Nationalism!
“Tum zameen pe zulm likh do/Aasmaan pe inquilab likha jayega!!!” New Delhi, the Indian capital, witnessed a horrific incident on January 30… as if it was the replica of the […]
Inside The Camp Of Death…
At the end of the Second World War, the Soviet Red Army freed prisoners of Auschwitz Concentration Camp on January 27, 1945. From gas-chambers to toxic injections, extermination programmes and processes of deaths were arranged everywhere! However, a Nazi soldier fell in love with a Jewish girl there...
What A Step!
It is beyond comprehension of the normal mind that a State would pass this sort of a law in the 21st Century! However, Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Turkey has developed an […]
Prosecution & Persecution?
Once, a German photographer had framed images of brutal mass murders of Jews at the Nazi concentration camp in the occupied Polish territory of Auschwitz. These rare photographs still carry […]
A Tale Of Love-Letters!
A trunk, full of letters whose papers have aged with time, weighing 37kg... two classmates had written those to each other for eight years! The girl used to stay in a city with her parents, while the boy was in a camp for treason...
All In The Mind!
Often, we have to break the Old in order to get something New. The Indian Psychiatric Society recently organised a seminar in the eastern city of Kolkata, mainly to discuss […]
Boundless Ocean Of Politics 