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Ajay Gandhi
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How the West’s fantasy of the fakir allows it to displace blame for its terrible acts of violence
During a trip to Disneyland Paris, reflections on the displacement of indigenous groups in the New World and the brutality of Empire.
Ajay Gandhi
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‘What’s the story?’: Writer Sara Suleri’s student discovers his teacher afresh in her memoir
‘Immediately, I am struck by her sour wordplay, the gleeful piss-taking, a cagey indirection. An exuberant voice absent in our seminar vibrates from the page.’
Ajay Gandhi
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Steel, wood to darkened glass facades: Reflections on Mumbai’s transition to a post-industrial metro
From a cluttered space of human bodies and painted metal, mirrored glass and security cameras now widely used across the metropolis have created an opaque city.
Ajay Gandhi
Trending
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‘Heeramandi’ review: Lahore Luxe tawaif saga runs on empty
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Faltering economy, poor citizens, South Asia’s bully: The reality of India’s global ambitions
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‘Naach Ga Ghuma’ review: Soft landings in saga of a woman and her missing maid
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Mumbai school principal told to resign after being targeted by Hindutva website
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Fact-checking five days of Narendra Modi’s speeches: A catalogue of lies
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From India and Canada’s Quebec to the Netherlands, what does the metaphor of ‘slavery’ disguise?
To say one was enslaved seems to diagnose present wrongs, yet dims moral accountability.
Ajay Gandhi
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The lost tale of a Goan goldsmith in Lisbon and what it says about Portugal’s colonial conquests
Claims of cultural fusion and co-mingling can erase the brutality and horrors of ethnic cleansing carried out by the Portuguese in India and elsewhere.
Ajay Gandhi
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From Canada to Khalistan: What maps encompass and exclude
Maps produced me, contouring my family’s movements for a half-century.
Ajay Gandhi
Video
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Watch: Diljit Dosanjh invites young fan on stage, dances with him during his sold-out Vancouver show
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Watch: School authorities turn classroom into swimming pool to encourage attendance during heatwave
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Watch: Woman recreates pet parrot’s choreography
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Watch: Neighbours rescue infant from second floor sunshade after she fell from fourth floor balcony
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Video: Listen to this acapella version of Shankar Mahadevan’s ‘Breathless’ by four singers
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How can art help us understand climate change?
Seeing differently is not aesthetic distraction. It is necessary for knowing and solving.
Ajay Gandhi
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Personal history: My grandfather and the humble backstory of a Jeanneret chair from Chandigarh
The public-minded furniture designed by the Swiss architect is now auctioned off at Christie’s. In its reappraisal is also the trajectory of a family’s life.
Ajay Gandhi
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What the spider tales of Indians in the Caribbean reveal about our fragility and powers of endurance
A web, rather than a root, gives a better image of how humans converge, unfold and heal as social beings.
Ajay Gandhi
The Reel
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‘Naach Ga Ghuma’ review: Soft landings in saga of a woman and her missing maid
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‘Heeramandi’ review: Lahore Luxe tawaif saga runs on empty
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‘The Fall Guy’ review: Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt sparkle in entertaining action comedy
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‘Mufasa: The Lion King’ trailer: Barry Jenkins directs prequel to 2019 photorealistic animated film
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Start the week with a film: A divorce from hell in ‘The War of the Roses’
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The Dutch feign innocence around ‘Black Pete’ – but the character underlines real racial hierarchies
It is no accident that attachment to Zwart Piete has deepened since the Netherlands’ empire disintegrated.
Ajay Gandhi
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What a 17th-century Dutch painting of an Indian boy tells us about migration today
Abducted, branded and sold, South Asians were prominent in Netherlands’ estates and shipyards through the 1660s.
Ajay Gandhi
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Gamified Hinduism: Dissecting the zero-sum logic of digital nationalism
In its digitised, nationalised iteration, Hinduism is losing the capaciousness and generosity that characterise its poetic and practiced forms.
Ajay Gandhi
The Field
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IPL 2024: Harpreet Brar, Rahul Chahar bowl Punjab Kings to crucial win over Chennai Super Kings
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Badminton, Thomas Cup 2024: India finish second in Group C following loss to Indonesia
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Fitness watch: Project launched in England to study causes of ACL injuries in women’s football
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IPL 2024: Bowlers, Marcus Stoinis help Lucknow Super Giants beat Mumbai Indians
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India tour of Bangladesh: Radha Yadav, D Hemalatha propel visitors to win in rain-marred second T20I