Githa Hariharan discusses with Newsclick about multiplicity within cultural spaces as depicted by Ramanujan’s essay which has come under criticism by the right-wing and the Academic Council of Delhi University.
Githa Hariharan discusses with Newsclick about multiplicity within cultural spaces as depicted by Ramanujan’s essay which has come under criticism by the right-wing and the Academic Council of Delhi University.
We are writing this letter in support of a network of thousands of mothers across Japan who fear the devastation resulting from the tsunami on March 11th and the grossly negligent government policies since its occurrence. We believe the government’s negligence will have more adverse consequences than the already catastrophic impact of the tsunami and resulting radiation exposure. An almost certain rise in cancer rates for millions of people is the best case scenario from the continued leakage from Fukushima Daiichi reactors No. 1, 2, 3, and 4. It is our intention to limit the exposure of human beings to this risk to the greatest extend possible.
What better way to end the festive season than to donate generously to a fundraising drive (literally) for the Spinal Injury Rehabilitation Centre (SIRC)?
Will they bash up universities in Jakarta and other places for teaching different versions of the Ramayana?’ An interview with noted historian Romila Thapar
In case anyone has missed the point, the essay in question is not a pamphlet written by a provocateur: it is a scholarly essay published by a university press and aimed principally at an academic readership. Which makes it even harder to understand why the highest academic body of India’s most important liberal arts university, the University of Delhi, would choose to override expert opinion and remove it from an undergraduate syllabus. Especially when doing so would suggest, whether the academic council intended this or not, that the university had caved in to violent intimidation. [. . .] The reason Hindutva militants attacked this essay is not difficult to understand. Hindutva seeks to re-make the diversity of Hindu narratives and practices into a uniform faith based on standardized texts.
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