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Reflections from within

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A.S. Panneerselvan discusses Sukumar Muralidharan’s book, “Freedom, Civility, Commerce” on the Hindu website:

Asking for a reaffirmation of core values, Mr. Muralidharan reminds us that though there has never been a golden age of journalism, we should be aware of the difficult realities of today. He points out that information overload has not led to more democratic access to information. Instead, information overload points to a future of robotic forms of information aggregation and dissemination that could serve little else than corporates. He rightly places emphasis on the importance of restoring public trust in journalism.

Read the full story on the Hindu

Of Gardens and Graves: Review by Gowhar Fazili in Biblio

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The juxtaposition and the parallel reading of poems written by Pandit and Muslim poets is a conscious move to se the shared language and poetry as the “affective glue that binds” them together even as they bear witness to “the destruction of the community”. Kaul does not perceive the suffering of the two communities – of one in the form of exile and its concomitant loss and hurt, and of the other, through militarized repression, systematic humiliation and denial of political agency – as opposed to each other, but as corollaries of the same phenomenon. The extraordinary sensitivity and scrupulousness with which he is able to navigate between the two sets of subjectivity, and not undermine either, despite being personally implicated as a Kashmiri Pandit, who also identifies as an Indian, is remarkable.

Of Gardens and Graves – Biblio review.

Media roundup for the book release of History as a Site of Struggle

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The Hindu

The true historian would strive to explain to the reader how and why things were as they were, avoiding any kind of blind trust in tradition. The Vice-President said Mr. Panikkar stood tall in the noble fraternity of such historians.

New Indian Express

Ansari said that this volume was a collection of papers and articles that Panikkar had written over years. Together, they sustain and reinforce his position as an outstanding public intellectual of our times.