South Asia Citizens Web

Some weeks ago, a friend and I were discussing the returning of the first few awards by writers. I said that the gesture was likely to have little effect as too few Indians cared for writers and their work. I added that what would be effective was something similar from the world of popular films. Sure enough, the actions of a couple of directors drew attention: but the real bomb-shell was the words of Aamir Khan, a major star, from a well publicised platform.

Habib’s secular pennant has not endeared himself to either Muslim or Hindu fundamentalists. At the AMU itself, he has had several run-ins with strident students and managements, and for the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS), he is a reviled bête noire along with other "leftist" historians.

Negating ‘Political Islam’ for being the cause of rising fundamentalism, extremism and terrorism across the world, feminists mostly belong to Muslim countries opposed ISIS, Boko Haram and Taliban’s wrong brand of religion, terming them against women’s rights

It has been about 35 years since the publication of The Arcane of Reproduction: Housework, Prostitution, Labor and Capital, and the world has radically changed since then.1 Society has changed faster than our capacity to re-forge the theoretical and methodological toolbox at our disposal. It is time to ask: what is happening to the reproductive sphere on a structural level? A tsunami is overturning everything.

This is to remember ’Le rythme de la parole’ (the rythm of speech) that happened in 2004, 30 km north of Paris in Royaumont Abbey a sublime musical conversation between the breaker of taboos & celebrated singer from Mali Nahawa Doumbia, and musicians from Iran and from South of India.