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Dr V. Shanta, well known cancer specialist, Chair of the Cancer Institute (W.I.A.), Chennai, and Padma Vibhushan and Magsaysay awardee, admonishes the M.D. & CEO of Punjab National Bank for misusing “cancer’ in the context of the recent banking mega-scam

In the midst of eulogies for Asma Jahangir, well deserved and well earned, I am reminded strongly of the teachings of those we now seek to remember and honour, and those who are still here. In our desire to honour a woman who many knew as a person and as a symbol, we should not reduce her, or what indeed she stood for. We are mythmaking, and that is antithetical to what these women and men stand for and have stood for all their lives. What we are doing is dangerous.

To defeat populist-nationalist forms of communal authoritarianism in India, we have to fight against more than just communalism.

American historian Audrey Truschke said a negative caricature of Aurangzeb serves the political interests of modern India. She was speaking at a session titled ‘Aurangzeb Alamgir, Man and King’ at the Lahore Literary Festival (LLF) on Saturday [24 Feb 2018].

Their [Suffragettes] struggles left a mark on the techniques of protest used by the Mahatma in South Africa