Month: November 2014
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‘It’s important to stay engaged and keep pressing for equality and justice.’
Surabhi Chopra is co-editor of ON THEIR WATCH: Mass Violence and State Apathy in India. Examining the Record. She is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, Chinese University of Hong Kong. She researches transitional justice, national security and the rights of the poor. She replies to four questions we posed before her. 1.…
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Music, City, Self
Aneesh Pradhan in conversation with Nalini Taneja about his book Hindustani Music in Colonial Bombay and some key issues in contemporary Hindustani art music. What in your view are the key problems in historiography of Hindustani music, as well as musicology that derives from it? Until the last two decades or so, historiography of Hindustani…
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‘No justice is possible in a system of impunity and compromise.’
Prita Jha is co-editor of ON THEIR WATCH: Mass Violence and State Apathy in India. Examining the Record. She is a human right activist working in Gujarat. She replies to four questions we put to her. Q.: The book is based on painstaking field-work. The chapter on Gujarat, written by you, is the longest. The…
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MSS Pandian, 1957-2014
The sudden departure of MSS Pandian, historian, scholar and extraordinary teacher, adds a sense of emptiness to these terrible times. A massive heart attack following a gastro-intestinal complication, of which he wasn’t fully aware, took him away on 10 November 2014 at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. On the way to…