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Ajay Gandhi
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‘What’s the story?’: Writer Sara Suleri’s student discovers his teacher afresh in her memoir
‘Immediately, I am struck by her sour wordplay, the gleeful piss-taking, a cagey indirection. An exuberant voice absent in our seminar vibrates from the page.’
Ajay Gandhi
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Steel, wood to darkened glass facades: Reflections on Mumbai’s transition to a post-industrial metro
From a cluttered space of human bodies and painted metal, mirrored glass and security cameras now widely used across the metropolis have created an opaque city.
Ajay Gandhi
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From India and Canada’s Quebec to the Netherlands, what does the metaphor of ‘slavery’ disguise?
To say one was enslaved seems to diagnose present wrongs, yet dims moral accountability.
Ajay Gandhi
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‘The match between a translator and a writer is alchemical. It’s like being married’: Anton Hur
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Watch: Beyoncé was joined by her daughter Blue Ivy on stage for a dance routine during UK concert
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Transformation of the goddess and clay: Naveen Kishore’s photos capture hues of conflict
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Why a ‘fail-safe’ signalling system fails to prevent deadly train crashes
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In Delhi, space for dissent shrinks as police pressure venues hosting civil society events
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The lost tale of a Goan goldsmith in Lisbon and what it says about Portugal’s colonial conquests
Claims of cultural fusion and co-mingling can erase the brutality and horrors of ethnic cleansing carried out by the Portuguese in India and elsewhere.
Ajay Gandhi
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From Canada to Khalistan: What maps encompass and exclude
Maps produced me, contouring my family’s movements for a half-century.
Ajay Gandhi
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How can art help us understand climate change?
Seeing differently is not aesthetic distraction. It is necessary for knowing and solving.
Ajay Gandhi
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Eco India, Episode 227: How a booming construction industry is rapidly depleting a crucial resource
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Watch: Sparks from flyover fall on moving traffic below in Guwahati
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Watch: This robot dog ‘critiques’ art pieces using artificial intelligence (and prints it out)
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Watch: Rescuers free humpback whale trapped in shark nets off Australian coast
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Caught on camera: TV news debate spirals into verbal altercation and physical clash among panellists
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Personal history: My grandfather and the humble backstory of a Jeanneret chair from Chandigarh
The public-minded furniture designed by the Swiss architect is now auctioned off at Christie’s. In its reappraisal is also the trajectory of a family’s life.
Ajay Gandhi
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What the spider tales of Indians in the Caribbean reveal about our fragility and powers of endurance
A web, rather than a root, gives a better image of how humans converge, unfold and heal as social beings.
Ajay Gandhi
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The Dutch feign innocence around ‘Black Pete’ – but the character underlines real racial hierarchies
It is no accident that attachment to Zwart Piete has deepened since the Netherlands’ empire disintegrated.
Ajay Gandhi
The Reel
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‘Bloody Daddy’ review: Plenty of cocaine but not enough speed
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‘Por Thozhil’ review: A gripping police procedural
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‘Dhoomam’ trailer: Fahadh Faasil headlines Pawan Kumar’s crime thriller
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Bring out the earplugs – ‘Gadar: Ek Prem Katha’ is back
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Pastel shades, tableau shots: Recreating the Wes Anderson aesthetic
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What a 17th-century Dutch painting of an Indian boy tells us about migration today
Abducted, branded and sold, South Asians were prominent in Netherlands’ estates and shipyards through the 1660s.
Ajay Gandhi
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Gamified Hinduism: Dissecting the zero-sum logic of digital nationalism
In its digitised, nationalised iteration, Hinduism is losing the capaciousness and generosity that characterise its poetic and practiced forms.
Ajay Gandhi
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BJP has mastered the art of using symbols to its advantage. But will the mass pyres singe it?
Death is explicable when people are sacrificed for a larger cause. What angers and estranges many is that these Covid-19 deaths are for naught.
Ajay Gandhi
The Field
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Hockey, FIH Pro League, India vs Netherlands Live: Hardik Singh and Co take on Holland
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Watch: When Harsha Bhogle met Peter Drury, a conversation between two legendary sports broadcasters
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WTC Final, AUS vs IND, Day 4 live: Rohit Sharma falls to Nathan Lyon, Cheteshwar Pujara out too
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Hockey: Savita Punia headlines 33-member core probables as Asian Games preparation begins
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Hockey, Women’s Junior Asia Cup: India pip Japan to reach final and qualify for FIH Junior World Cup