(East) Indian Art and Caribbean Aesthetics
The following is a synopsis of a paper I presented recently at the Caribbean Festival of Arts (CARIFESTA). It was presented at UWI’s Department of Creative and Festival Arts in…
The following is a synopsis of a paper I presented recently at the Caribbean Festival of Arts (CARIFESTA). It was presented at UWI’s Department of Creative and Festival Arts in…
On the ground in Kerala, Sabarimala is a far bigger issue than even a politcally aware Hindu outside its cultural milieu might conclude. The bizzare semi-blackout by the Kerala media, the relatively…
In yet another episode demonstrating the one-way flow of the apocryphal Ganga-Jamuni-tehzeeb or ‘composite culture’ in the country, Muslim hardliner MLA Waris Pathan was forced to apologize for merely chanting…
A Sunni Islamic seminary in Deoband has declared the BJP MLC Bukkhal Nawab as `Murtid’ (apostate) for paying obeisance to Sri Hanuman at a temple in Lucknow, the Daily Pioneer…
One of the oft-repeated assertions of our psuedo-seculars is the existence of a ‘composite culture’ which they term ‘Ganga-Jamuni tehzeeb’. We are told by leftist historians that this culture took…