Indian feminists and the nation's family planning programme forced vasectomies during the Emergency and the idea of small families as a way to eliminate poverty @ProfMytheli author ... Read more
Gandhi's introduction of non-violence as an Indian value by fabricating a tradition around it, his radical interpretation of the Bhagavad Gita, his exhortation to the Jews facing H ... Read more
The idea that ancient Indians were non-violent is completely wrong." - Upinder Singh, author of Ancient India; Culture of Contradictions talks to @utterflea on godess worship and m ... Read more
Battling severe OCD, walking away from his father's business to strike out on his own in LA, and dealing positively with trolls, @sidmallya, author of 'If I'm Honest; A Memoir of M ... Read more
Cyborg India, the persistence and flexibility of caste, lynching as a form of messaging that marries social media spectacle and communal hatred, cognitive capitalism, and the idea ... Read more
Zainuddin, Ram Das, Vishnupersaud and Rungiah were just some of the brilliant artists who worked with the surgeon-botanists of the East India Company to create exquisite scientific ... Read more
Pre-modern Indian attitudes to animals, what the Mahabharata says about cruelty to bulls, factory farming and vegetarianism, and Mahadevi Varma's stories about animals and their re ... Read more
Nazi atrocities against Indians in Germany, Subhash Chandra Bose's unfruitful meeting with Hitler, and the strange amnesia that has led to Mien Kampf being a bestseller in India, @ ... Read more
Lust, black magic, kidnapping, and murder feature in the story of P Rajagopal, founder of Saravana Bhavan. Murder on the Menu by Nirupama Subramanian shows us a man who stopped at ... Read more
Building a utopian community, the optimism and the bitter internal battles that were fought, the triumphs, great personal tragedies and philosophical struggles of the pioneers... @ ... Read more
