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Urdu is not the monopoly of mullahs, nor even the Muslim community 

Our self-styled “left liberal” intelligentsia, otherwise loud in denouncing Hindu majoritarianism, suddenly turned mute when confronted with Muslim right-wing pressure

The Latest Victims of “Cultural Terrorism”: A Dalit Poet and a Dalit Scholar

Sangh parivar’s cultural vigilantes force exit of Dalit poet...

दुर्गा दुर्मतिनाशिनी

षष्ठी की सुबह यह लिख रहा हूँ .  आज...

Can Culture Exclude People, Even Our Neighbours?

Cultural practice does not recognise borders. Militarising it reduces...

M.F. Husain’s Brush with the Ramlila: In His Own Words

With the dominant public mood of the country, carefully...

A Muslim Kumbhakarna in Delhi’s Ramleela

Delhi’s Syncretism wins over Buldanha’s Sectarianism...for nowMuslim boy Mujibur...

एम एफ़ हुसेन की रामलीला

जब एक कमज़ोर सरकार कट्टरपंथियों के आगे घुटने टेक...

Rich & Working Class: When the Bombay Cinema Hall Enthralled them All

Popular cinema and public culture in Bombay Popular cinema in...

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