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SUBCONTINENTAL CULTURAL PRACTICES
Beyond imperial arrogance or nationalist resentment lies India's capacity to use English to reinventThomas Babington Macaulay envisioned a class of Indian interpreters to aid British rule. Instead, India produced a global intelligentsia of...- Zohran Mamdani thanks 'aunties' in New York speech, highlights South Asian family cultureMore Americans may now realise just how widely, even recklessly, the words aunt/ aunty are used in the subcontinent, going way beyond the n...
- Maintain a balance between faith and funBritain also lays claim to Halloween; even the practice of pumpkin jack o'lanterns is said to have evolved from the earlier tradition of ca...
- How India's composite culture spawned some of our best delicaciesA look at many of India’s most loved, popular, festive foods immediately brings up the idea of the composite cultures that invented these.
- Secularism is a fig leaf. We’re more Pakistani than we thinkHere the majoritarian impulse was restrained since 1947 under Congress which insisted on Nehruvian secularism as the cornerstone of our dem...
- India Art Fair, a platform where Indian, Pakistani artists will seek common canvasWhile exchanges across India-Pakistan border these days seem to consist mostly of heavy artillery and tough talk, artist communities on bot...
- Burdwan blast underscores the threat unchecked population flow poses for India and BangladeshWest Bengal, under both the Left Front and the TMC, is proverbial chink in armour, with state intelligence machinery doing practically noth...
- For India outreach, US brings into play Indian-AmericansIndo-Americans have been routinely making the assistant secretary grade from the time Bush nominated Bobby Jindal to be assistant secretary...
- Indian 'bucket bath' a better way to save waterThose who favour bathtubs even of standard capacity, end up using over 40 to 60 gallons! For that quantity of water, an entire large Indian...
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