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Mrinal Pande
The writer is former chairperson, Prasar Bharati.
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In the history of meeting, clashing and quiet co-mingling of religions in India lies the seeds of our syncretic Dharma
Mon, Dec 19, 2022
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Medical translation involves understanding nuances of language and intricacies of super speciality fields. A hasty political decision could do more harm than good
Wed, Oct 26, 2022
In Amrit Kaal, a lesson from the tragedies of KrishnaPremium Story
August 26,2022 04:02:46 AM
Mrinal Pande writes: We are witnessing the infantilisation of a democracy and its gods
Fri, Aug 26, 2022
Mrinal Pande writes: Maharashtra rebels in Guwahati — Horsetrading amid floodsPremium Story
June 23,2022 18:28:03 PM
Mrinal Pande writes: Did no one pause to think of how the images of the homeless rushing to safe spaces with their minimal possessions would play against the backdrop of MLAs thumping each other on the back and smiling for the cameras in plush hotels?
Fri, Jun 24, 2022
The world according to Geetanjali ShreePremium Story
May 29,2022 23:13:16 PM
Mrinal Pande writes: ‘Ret Samadhi’ (Tomb of Sand) defies generalisations, reveals larger truth about polyphonic, unpredictable and porous human life
Mon, May 30, 2022
From Indra’s flag and Krishna’s banner to saffron flag: From the divine to the sectarianPremium Story
May 18,2022 14:40:23 PM
Mrinal Pande writes: The Indra dhwaja represented divine power that brought joy and celebration into everyone’s lives. Can any flag that represents only one group surpass that?
Thu, May 19, 2022
Till the end, Lata Mangeshkar remained her own personPremium Story
February 07,2022 04:30:28 AM
It would be wrong to pin her down to a single identity, of a grand dowager queen of music, all white sarees, and an isolation of fervent religiosity and meditational silences
Mon, Feb 07, 2022
For a republic where women matterPremium Story
January 26,2022 04:00:04 AM
🔴 Mrinal Pande writes: The state needs to take the first step towards examining women’s actual experiences in the contexts of unequal pay, allocation of inferior work and denial of rights over their minds and bodies
Wed, Jan 26, 2022
Ayodhya: A land where no one speaks truth to powerPremium Story
January 01,2022 03:44:21 AM
🔴 As the new year dawns, Ayodhya reminds us of the fragility of human relationships and the precariousness of women’s lives
Tue, Jan 04, 2022
Kashi: City of poets, holy men, clowns and courtesansPremium Story
December 18,2021 04:30:05 AM
🔴 Mrinal Pande writes: It is an alchemical blending of dream and reality, a fakkad universe in which the real seems fantastic and the fantastic suddenly unmasks the real. Maybe this will help Kashi survive the latest challenge to its soul
Sat, Dec 18, 2021
Mannu Bhandari’s writing resonated with a rare honestyPremium Story
November 17,2021 03:00:11 AM
Mrinal Pande writes: She wrote about having choices, about the power and powerlessness embedded in the male-centric world that all women must inhabit
Thu, Nov 18, 2021
Goodbye Dilip Kumar, creator of our first dreams of lovePremium Story
July 08,2021 03:40:09 AM
Mrinal Pande writes: Dilip Kumar's films encapsulated the bits of us which remain important but to which we have the least access
Thu, Jul 08, 2021
Battle-scarred and prescient, Mamata Banerjee played to winPremium Story
May 04,2021 03:12:22 AM
Mamata Banerjee recognised that in the land of the Mother Goddess, BJP’s fabled 56-inch male energy is irrational.
Tue, May 04, 2021
Jacinda Ardern’s career has created a more robust template for the New Political Woman in the 21st centuryPremium Story
October 30,2020 03:15:39 AM
Ardern’s success proves that democracies today need politicians, male or female, who can represent a host of races, castes and tribes that live together as a nation. Even as the incumbent PM facing elections, Ardern was able to keep her nation united in the fight against COVID-19.
Fri, Oct 30, 2020
At 70, PM Modi has come to represent the spirit of the timesPremium Story
September 17,2020 03:18:26 AM
You yourself have imbibed most of your deep insights into human nature, not at Oxford or Cambridge, but in India from your seasoned, kind and wise mentors of the Sangh Parivar.
Thu, Sep 17, 2020
Being free requires empowering yourself and helping others step out for changePremium Story
August 15,2020 03:38:46 AM
Each generation of our women will need to tweak old freedoms and laws. But the young women today need to realise that they have inherited a well-documented past.
Sat, Aug 15, 2020
BHU agitation is proof that Hindutva has force-fed many with an atrophied concept of Hindu dharmaPremium Story
November 23,2019 04:10:23 AM
It is obvious that these students and their faceless instigators are not aware of the 1962 collection of the BHU founder’s speeches on the concept of dharma. The learned educationist says, again and again, that ultimately there is only one Supreme Being whom peoples following different religions worship under different names
Sat, Nov 23, 2019
That’s right, blame it on HindiPremium Story
July 20,2019 02:00:16 AM
Every language, culture has its history of oppression. But it is also in the infinite plurality of language that tensions of identity, of politics, are resolved.
Sat, Jul 20, 2019
In 2019, we need politics that does not dominate and bully womenPremium Story
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Politics is one area where we have not come a long way. In 2019, we need to move beyond reflections about family relationships and motherhood and women’s inalienable duties to society.
Wed, Mar 13, 2019
Krishna Sobti: A gateway to Ganga-Jamuni vistaPremium Story
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Krishna Sobti’s work exposes the horror of a segregationist regional jingoism.
Sat, Jan 26, 2019
Year of the farcePremium Story
January 01,2019 01:04:29 AM
As Jawaharlal Nehru, much reviled by the BJP, and B R Ambedkar, well understood, progress in the world can at best be incremental. Only the willfully or otherwise ignorant will ignore that the history of nations’ progress is simultaneously the history of pain, murder, gross venality, slavery and cyclical horror.
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Of Statues Big And SmallPremium Story
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In history and scripture, UP CM will find little basis to build a giant statue of Lord Ram. Then the invaders arrived in waves through the Hindukush pass and the force of Islam collided with the immovable presence of the local faith. The post-10th century period saw a period of hot clashes and cold fusion.
Fri, Dec 21, 2018
Context for the gotra warriorsPremium Story
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Consent in a man’s worldPremium Story
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Fri, Nov 09, 2018