Tag: Literature

Danielle Nierenberg Food Tank has selected 20 books that will inspire and inform readers on topics ranging from food justice to urban composting to local food systems. These books highlight the important authors and change-makers whose creativity and innovation are…

Sudhirendar Sharma Women in the Middle East have begun to question those aspects of their culture that injures them in the name of religious protection. More often than not, prohibition of any kind triggers hidden human desires to surface with…

Sudhirendar Sharma It is a sheer enigma that the feel-good ideology of pluralism has outlived four decades of populist viewing.

Sudhirendar Sharma There is no denying the fact that the society needs to host intelligent, civil conversations about controversial and often heated issues, with the aim of widening them both in scope and participation.

Sudhurendar Sharma In exporting 35 per cent of the country’s ore, mining has used 8 per cent of the state’s richest land mass, and returned just 4 per cent to its exchequer by pocketing the rest.

Robert J. Burrowes It has been argued that nonviolent struggles to liberate occupied countries – such as West Papua, Tibet, Palestine, Kanaky and Western Sahara – have failedfar more often than they have succeededbut that secessionist struggles (that have sought…

Sudhirendar Sharma Mark my words, uncanny hair growth in one of the most undesired of places on our body is likely to script a new style statement. No freak idea this, those who may have plucked these protein filaments into…

Sudhirendar Sharma Systems and rules are for the fools, and it needs power of imagination to fool the system. Piyush Pandey’s writing is like an onion with endless layers that seamlessly unravel clues in simplicity of everyday living. Such is…

Sudhirendar Sharma GDP may have worked despite its fallibility till now, but it is unlikely to serve henceforth as the economy gets driven more by innovation, services, and intangible goods. It is a ‘made up entity’ that has become the…

Robert J. Burrowes For many people, it is easier, safer and more comfortable to live in a world of delusion, particularly when this delusion requires no effort to seek out and understand truths that might prove unpalatable. If the delusion…

Sudhirendar Sharma What you read, see, and eat (and even think) is under gaze of self-styled moral custodians of social and cultural behaviour. If freedom of expression is what democratic societies aspire for, then the use of ink to smear…