St Teresa’s Institute of Education, S V Road, Santa Cruz West, Mumbai was host to an array of principals, teachers, managers of education, teacher-trainees, and experts from the field of education on November 20, 2019. The occasion served as a platform to school educators from Boards across Mumbai, to showcaseContinue Reading
“At first, political parties would publish what they wanted through their own mouthpieces. After Liberalisation of the economy in 1991, corporates, who earlier influenced indirectly through advertising, began owning media houses directly”, said R Jagannathan, editor of Swarajya Magazine, in a panel discussion held in Bandra last week. The discussionContinue Reading
“The biggest struggle I had, was with myself,” said Ria Sharma, founder of ‘Make Love Not Scars’ and the first Indian to receive the UNICEF Global Awards in 2017. In conversation at a panel discussion during the TATA Lit Fest, titled, ‘Paving the Way’, she discussed primarily the importance ofContinue Reading
There is no need to get worried about the current polarisation in Indian society, nor should there be fears that Indian democracy will be destroyed as a result. This too will pass, seemed to be the consensus during a rather heated debate and discussion among panelists and audience, on theContinue Reading
India is a complex nation consisting of a melee of diverse cultures, languages, habits and customs. The pressing question is who can qualify as ‘Indians’? Every person residing in this nation is both an insider and an outsider in one way or the other. A number of people have migratedContinue Reading
“Emergencies are of two types; one is declared and the other is undeclared. We are currently surrounded by an undeclared emergency”, said Swami Agnivesh, while replying to a question by journalist Sandeep Bhushan at a session titled ‘State of emergency: How similar is 2019 to 1975?. This was part ofContinue Reading
The fourth and the final day of Tata Literature Live Mumbai Fest 2019 held in Title Waves, Bandra, moved the audience into the realm of comic literature. On a serene Sunday morning, panelists Appupen and Dave McKean, chaired by Aarthi Parthasarthy who engaged the audience for an hour-long thoughts andContinue Reading
India is the 6th most depressed country in the world!! Did you just blink twice? Or does that not surprise you? With every passing day, the number of suicides doubles. What once used to be a subject much avoided and not spoken of, is now the biggest concern of theContinue Reading
The BJP has used the controversy surrounding the death of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose as a tool to extract political mileage. The government declassified the files in the hope that it would find evidence to denigrate Jawaharlal Nehru, but on the contrary, it was found that the relationship between theContinue Reading
When three authors of fiction couched strongly in history get together with a translator and the host of a popular, long-running television show called Just Books, to talk about whether fiction is a better way to ‘tell’ history, the results are a pretty foregone conclusion. It is, because fiction allowsContinue Reading