An Ongoing Struggle For Women s Freedoms
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Enactment of anti-love jihad laws across India, not just criminalises love, but robs a woman of her individuality and independent existence. Overlooking their capabilities, the government of today seeks to shatter the choices and freedoms of Indian women by confining them to the domestic sphere, even deciding who to love and live with. Dr. Rukhmabai, India s first.
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Kasturi Gupta Menon speaks about Kamala with a quiet maternal pride. She is conducting a tour of the landmark handloom and handicrafts store in the city that she has been looking after since 2010. The store is only one large L-shaped room at the ICCR building in Ho Chi Minh Street, but the tour takes long, because Menon stops at every shelf, every display, and describes every handpicked sari and object in detail, and every description ends in a story.
The Bengal taant saris alone come in at least three varieties: Phulia (for Tangail) and Shantipur in Nadia and Begampur in Hooghly. Some customers will drop in only for the Barmer curtains with their delicate applique work of white on white, which also hang in the store, illuminating the glass front.
Kapila Vatsyayan: The Visionary Who Defined Indian Aesthetic Theory
Kapila Vatsyayanâs vision was driven by a necessity to develop a terminology to be able to examine Indian art in its own art history.
Kapila Vatsyayan (1928-2020). Photo: Bharat Tiwari
In 2011, I was commissioned to curate an exhibition on ‘The Body in Indian Art and Thought’. The show was put on the road in 2013 with a grand opening by the president of India and the king of the Belgians at the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels. Only five years earlier, however, the very same venue had hosted another exhibition of Indian art called ‘Tejas’, curated by Kapila Vatsyayan.
December 24, 2020
Professor at UC Santa Barbara Amit Ahuja wins Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize 2020 for his book ‘Mobilizing the Marginalized: Ethnic Parties Without Ethnic Movements’.Photo:
Courtesy – UC Santa Barbara
Political Science Professor at University of California, Santa Barbara Amit Ahuja, was awarded the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize 2020 for his book on Dalit representation in India, ‘Mobilizing the Marginalized: Ethnic Parties Without Ethnic Movements’, New India Foundation (NIF) announced on Dec. 10.
The jury of the award for this year announced two winners. Jairam Ramesh, Member of Parliament representing Karnataka state is the co-winner for his book, ‘A Chequered Brilliance: The Many Lives of V.K. Krishna Menon’.
Dalit assertion is a reality, but all conversations start and end at reservations: Amit Ahuja
Dalit assertion is a reality, but all conversations start and end at reservations: Amit Ahuja | India Today Insight
Political scientist Amit Ahuja on his debut, award-winning book on why Dalit social mobilisation does not imply greater support for Dalit political parties
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People pay tribute to Dr B R Ambedkar on his death anniversary, Dec. 6, in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh (Maneesh Agnihotri/2018)
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