My grandfather once interviewed Hannah Arendt as part of his job with the Ministry of I&B. Back then, she wanted to learn Hindi. When he met her, she was brewing tea & offered it to him.
It tasted horrible. He asked what kind of tea did she make?
She said "Bana li, tea of evil"
Burying the Megalithic Burials!
Nagbhid's menhirs, 2,500-3,000 years old, are threatened by illegal construction. This neglect mirrors the loss of other significant sites in Maharashtra. As a concerned citizen, I urge action to protect our historical legacy. #SaveMenhirs.
Ashoka charges ~12 lakhs fee per academic year? That’s 48 lakhs for a four year course. FD na karwaye koi bachche ke naam pe and let them live in peace instead of studying humanities?
For @AtmosMag I went long on #Auroville, an experimental utopian township in India founded 50 yrs ago on a dream by Mirra Alfassa aka The Mother. The last few years have been a tumultuous battle between competing ideas of 'the city the earth needs'. Read:
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Lakshya remains a fan favourite and probably one of Hrithik Roshan's best performances.
It also serves as a reminder that good films need not make money, & films that make good money need not be . . .
What do the Portuguese sources tell us about caste? kaustubhnaik.com/what-do-the-po…
Sharing this old note amidst the renewed debate around Caste as a colonial construct.
15, 30 or maybe even 50 more years from now, someone will share some more trivia about this film and I'll be reading it with the same excitement I had when I watched this film as a school kid.
15, 30 or maybe even 50 more years from now, someone will share some more trivia about this film and I'll be reading it with the same excitement I had when I watched this film as a school kid.
What is a raga?
Did Kumara Gandharva really want Raghuram Rajan to come back?
Why did Teacher Joshi write “son of teacher Joshi” on his son's clothes?
Hindustani ragas in film music?
A thread 🧵about Hindustani Classical Music by the inimitable @shenoyn
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