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Ajay Gandhi
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How the West’s fantasy of the fakir allows it to displace blame for its terrible acts of violence
During a trip to Disneyland Paris, reflections on the displacement of indigenous groups in the New World and the brutality of Empire.
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
Trending
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‘Saffronisation of Doordarshan’: After DD News unveils new logo, social media users express alarm
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Husna Bai: The tawaif who made Hindustani music a respectable profession for women artists
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‘Do Aur Do Pyaar’ review: Adultery saga has a maths problem
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Carnatic music: Violinist L Subramaniam’s new book looks at the 18th-century masters
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Is the 2024 Lok Sabha election India’s last chance before the point of no return?
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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 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
Video
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Watch: Unbelievable scenes of flooding in Dubai airport, streets, and malls after heavy rain in UAE
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Indian elections: How secure is the EVM-VVPAT process?
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Watch: Footballers of Indian clubs walk out on the pitch with dogs to get them adopted
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Watch: Dogs wag their tails to ‘conduct’ classical music orchestra
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Watch: Glimpses of Indian singer Sid Sriram’s debut performance at Coachella 2024
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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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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
The Reel
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‘Trap’ trailer: M Night Shyamalan’s thriller stars Josh Hartnett as a serial killer
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Watch: Five directors shoot on iPhones for MAMI Mumbai Film Festival initiative
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‘Do Aur Do Pyaar’ review: Adultery saga has a maths problem
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‘Love Sex Aur Dhokha 2’ review: Laboured and barely provocative
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‘Civil War’ review: An urgent film about a barely-distant future
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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
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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
The Field
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Wrestling, Asian Olympic Qualifiers: Deepak Punia, Sujeet Kalkal fail to make weigh-ins in time
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Chess, Candidates 2024: Gukesh Dommaraju picks up win to become joint-leader with two rounds to go
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Hockey: Salima Tete 2.0 – a speedster who is adding confidence and creativity to her improving game
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IPL 2024: Suryakumar, bowlers help Mumbai Indians seal thriller against Punjab Kings
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Cricket: Meg Lanning opens up about struggle with food and exercise that led to her early retirement