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Independent Scholar. Polymath.

Enola Holmes The New Detective on The Block

Posted on June 22, 2025 by secondsaturn

Nancy Springer: The Uncorseted Feminist Nancy Springer, quite unknown to me, was born on the 5th of July 1948 and spent 76 years of her life living life and writing a great deal about it. She has authored 50 novels, … Continue reading →

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Rammohun Roy’s Legacy: Challenging Religious Extremism

Posted on May 24, 2025 by secondsaturn

Fight Theology for 22nd May 2025, 253rd Birth Anniversary of Raja Rammohun Roy Rabindranath Tagore wrote of Raja Rammohun Roy that if Bharat struggles to find itself, it will keep looking out for Rammohun. Truly, in everyday life of India … Continue reading →

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Jab Chhod Chale Lucknow Nagari

Posted on April 11, 2025 by secondsaturn

Gulabijaan is a fictional character, a stereotyped tawaif who came to Calcutta with the entourage of Wajid Ali Shah when he was exiled to the city by the East India Company in 1856, just a year before the Sepoy Mutiny. … Continue reading →

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Proletariat Struggle Through The LoudSpeaker

Posted on March 1, 2025 by secondsaturn

Municipality elections are this weekend in Faridabad. Electric three wheelers are rampaging the streets, with loudspeakers blaring slogans and songs composed around the candidates elevating them to statuses of Gods and Prophets. There are no election speeches, no meetings, no … Continue reading →

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Is India Poor?

Posted on February 11, 2025 by secondsaturn

It is true that poverty in India has declined. It has declined in absolute terms to just about 4.62% of the population, a massive step up from the 66% we had at the time of Independence. It is also true … Continue reading →

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Asha Purna Devi, 8th January 1909 to 13th July 1995

Posted on January 13, 2025 by secondsaturn

On the 8th of January the media and social media celebrated the birth anniversary of Ashapurna Devi, a prolific novelist of Bengali language who never ceases to fascinate her readers by the sheer volume of her work and by the … Continue reading →

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Raj Kapoor on 100

Posted on December 8, 2024 by secondsaturn

Dastangoi’s production on Raj Kapoor, like each of its productions is an experience to listen to and watch as well. Based on a resurrected form of storytelling lost to the past few centuries, Dastangos, as in the storytellers recreate a … Continue reading →

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Valmiki Pratibha

Posted on November 22, 2024 by secondsaturn

Valmiki Pratibha: Performance directed by Alokanda Roy with the prison inmates and staff of Presidency Jail, West Bengal. Dr Susmita Dasgupta On the 17th of November 2024, Alokananda Roy’s production of the 100th and final stage show of Tagore’s dance … Continue reading →

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Ram vs Krishna

Posted on October 11, 2024 by secondsaturn

A young professor at a reputed University uses a novel method to teach about myths; he uses film stars and their fandom to explain the popularity of Ram or Krishna. This ingenious way of teaching has the power to immediately … Continue reading →

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The Illusion of Progress: Gadgets vs. Real Education in India

Posted on September 21, 2024 by secondsaturn

Last afternoon I visited an exhibition in Yashobhumi, Dwarka in Delhi. Organized by the India Didactics Association, the exhibition promoted by the Ministry of Medium and Small-Scale Industries, is a gathering of so-called educators whose principal product across the board … Continue reading →

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