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#BookReview: "Where God Began" is a moving tribute to the tenacious human spirit and the worldwide need for a place to call home. This work, with its evocative writing and intelligent description of the refugee experience, provides a captivating and tragic investigation of one of today's most serious topics.

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Godse by any other name

Godse by any other name

A new play that explores one horrific moment in the past to raise unsettling questions about the future There is something deeply troubling about Chennai-based playwright Prasanna Ramaswamy’s new play This is my name. Long after it is over, it leaves you with a sense of disquiet and lingering insecurity. The 90-minute theatre performance featuring a large ensemble cast was recently staged in…

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India and the Indian: I hope my daughter inherits a rustic unbound by caste, linguistic strictures, writes Pa Ranjith

http://tinyurl.com/yy7kty5q This essay is a part of Firstpost’s ‘India and the Indian’ sequence, which examines the renewed concept of nationalism in vogue as we speak, and what it means. Learn extra from this series. *** I DO NOT KNOW whether or not the sentiment was patriotism or nationalism, however I first felt it as a toddler when enjoying cricket or watching the game. India as an emotion entered my psyche by cricket, a lot earlier than I understood it by maps at school textbooks. However later, I used to be confronted with the query of why India had so many various cultures, so many various languages. I began touring after I was in school. This was after I realised that my lack of understanding of Hindi was an issue to individuals I got here throughout. It was not a problem to me, although. My preliminary ideas have been, why ought to a language be opposed? Why ought to I be denied the chance to study it? I quickly learnt that it was not opposition, it was resistance to imposition. It reworked into my politics, and knowledgeable it too. Illustration © Satwick Gade for Firstpost As youngsters, all of us really feel patriotic on Independence Day when the tricolour is hoisted. However after I moved in direction of Ambedkar, there have been many questions that saved coming to me. Is Indian nationalism actual? How is it doable for individuals who have been divided into completely different ethnicities and castes to be united in a rustic referred to as India? How might they’ve presumably shaped it? After I noticed hatred being inflicted on others — whom I thought to be my very own, as a result of they have been Indians — within the title of caste, I needed to step away from the notion of nationalism. Ambedkar requested how he might name this nation his motherland, after we are handled worse than canines. He requested, when the ‘untouchables’ can not even entry consuming water, how can anyone really feel proud about this nation? The nation continues to discriminate in opposition to us, he stated, and if we’re pressured to not be loyal to this nation, the nation alone shall be accountable for it. If caste actively works in direction of holding me out of a system, how can I’ve any perception on this system? * A lot earlier than I learn Ambedkar, I had felt the identical emotion. I come from a village referred to as Karalapakkam the place cheris (Dalit localities) are separate from oors (village). The streets are segregated on the premise of castes. The village has a temple centrally positioned and the streets of dominant castes are constructed across the temple. Different communities’ streets comply with in a hierarchical method. When you have an aerial view of the village, you will note that localities for dominant castes and Dalits are clearly demarcated. In Karalapakkam there are Vanniyars, Reddiyars, Naickers, Naidus and different communities. I dwell in a cheri which doesn’t benefit from the standing of an oor. A query I discover myself wrestling with is whether or not I’m from an oor or cheri. To any outsider, I can say that I’m from Karalapakkam. However the reality is I can not survive in an oor the place every little thing relies on caste. The oor turns into an emblem of dignity that’s denied to me. This expertise in an oor is however a microcosm of India at giant. * At this time, a very powerful query about Indian nationalism is what it truly constitutes. Ought to Indian nationalism be Hindu nationalism alone? I need to start with the query of whether or not I’m a Hindu or not. Is Adivasi tradition and the worship of native deities reflective of Hinduism? I can not carry non-vegetarian meals into an enormous Perumal temple. Moreover, I must also have abstained from consuming non-vegetarian meals for a complete day to organize myself for this temple go to. However deities like Gengamma, Mariamma or Muni in my locality do not need the identical guidelines. In reality, I might provide the identical meals that I eat to those deities. My gods come from my lifestyle. Shouldn’t they be like me? Why would my gods impose guidelines which might be in opposition to my lifestyle? Nationalism can’t be sustained by identities like that of the Hindu or the Tamilian. It’s about how one can nonetheless be united, regardless of the weather that maintain you divided. It’s a measure of primary democratic buildings. I fully reject the concept solely those that are Hindus or assist Hinduism are nationalists. In reality, is being a Hindu the identical as believing in Hindutva? I’m afraid that more and more, the definition of Indian nationalism has merged with the Hindu identification; Muslims or Christians, or for that matter sections amongst Hindus themselves, can not match into the nationalist mould. It’s intentionally designed to maintain them out. Representational picture. Reuters There was as soon as a time when everybody would really feel ‘Indian’, regardless of what their faith or caste was, or what language they spoke. At this time, talking Hindi has turn into an inseparable a part of being Indian. Ambedkar referred to as South India progressive, and warned of civil conflict in case of a language imposition. What we’re witnessing now by way of the proposed Hindi imposition is an infringement on the federal rights of the South. * My daughter lately celebrated her birthday. This birthday, I wished to write down one thing for her. I wished to inform her: “You see everybody as they’re. Ten years later, I’m not positive if you’ll nonetheless see everybody and every little thing as they’re. By the point you develop up, issues would have modified drastically. However now, a Dalit is being fed human feces. A pair has been drowned as a result of their households don’t settle for their relationship. Each of those incidents have taken place within the span of three days, when I’ve sat down to write down one thing for you. I’m afraid about what to show you. I don’t know what the society has in retailer for you. However you have to be ready for every little thing, to study from this society. There are battles of caste, faith, gender, class and extra which might be ready so that you can take up. However I hope and need that by the point you develop up, issues would have modified for the higher. After I was rising up, land was a big problem. I’ve at all times questioned why we can not personal land. I used to be continuously frightened and confused that this land is just not mine, this temple is just not mine, and neither is that this pageant. At this time, you could not have such dilemmas, however after I take into consideration what you’ll have to face when rising up, I discover myself worrying once more.” The evening after I was attempting to write down this for my daughter was daunting. Horrible incidents passed off on a regular basis — it was miserable. Proper now my daughter is just too younger to know what this implies. However when she grows up, I hope this nation shall be a special one — one that won’t trigger her the identical ache because it did to me. A rustic that’s not certain by languages, castes or religions would be the nation that can give her the sort of happiness that I’d need for her. I am conscious that the notion of such a nation is utopian. Folks inform me that there’s not a lot I can do as a person. I am conscious of this, but when do nothing, I shall be responsible of leaving this world a worse place for my daughter. For her sake, I have to make it higher. —As instructed to Kavitha Muralidharan Your information to the newest cricket World Cup tales, evaluation, stories, opinions, dwell updates and scores on https://www.firstpost.com/firstcricket/series/icc-cricket-world-cup-2019.html. 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சிறப்புரை : தமிழ் மணவாளன் கவிதைக்காரன் இளங்கோ கவிதா முரளிதரன் சூர்யதாஸ் கார்த்திக் புகழேந்தி நாகப்பிரகாஷ்

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The Heroine and Other Stories by D.Jayakanthan Translated by Deepalakshmi J. with a forword by Ambai Dr. Rk Rudhran, Dr. K S Subramanian Bhaskar Sakthi Kavitha Muralidharan Hannah Dhanaraj Ravi Meduri