Mulk Raj Anand’s words entered my life when I picked up a collection of his short stories in a bookshop in Mumbai. Anand’s tales displayed a gallery of human nature that resonated with the complexities of India that were steadily seeping into my consciousness. A novelist, playwright, philosopher, poet, essayist, critic, Anand was at heart [...]

By Chitra Sundaram
So who doesn’t want to be a millionaire? A slumdog millionaire? No cheers? Not in India, not quite.
The Indians are ambivalent in praise, or protesting the film: “The ones who love the film are all outside! Even the ‘Indian’ hero is British! They’ve exposed, exploited and appropriated our poverty! They think they are [...]

Dr. Nilanshu Kumar Agarwal
All great imaginative literature is carved out of the highest emotional upheaval in the heart of the poet. A particular emotion catches the soul of the poet and the result is the outpouring of the excessively creative poetry. Poetry is nothing but the drainage/ exit/ gush of the excessive emotions in the [...]

The first mention of Jews in India occurs in The Bible (The Book of Esther) – dating from the 2nd Century B.C.E.  Due to their numerical insignificance, Indian Jews are sometimes unfamiliar within and without the Indian subcontinent.  This leads one to question whether Indian Jews are in jeopardy of double marginalisation?
 
• in the Indian Context  [...]