Several films and novels engage with the war in former Yugoslavia: Kusturica’s Underground (1995), Srdan Dragojevic’s Beautiful villages burn beautifully, Milčo Mančevski’s Before the rain (1994), the novel by Zoltán Danyi, A dögeltakarító (‘The Corpse Remover’) (2015), Orsolya Bencsik’s MorelLife…
There is perhaps no more urgent and fraught issue in India today than the question of the relationship between the democratic State, secularism and religion. According to a widely held view, either secularism as a conceptnorm is inapplicable in India…
It is to the great loss for the intellectual community of the world that Professor Franson Manjali (born 10 November 1955) – whom many of us lovingly call simply by his first name ‘Franson’ as he himself loved to\ be…
A slightly expanded version of the message Tapati Guha-Thakurta read out at the memorial meeting for Vivan Sundaram in Delhi on 17 April 2023.