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India and the Indian: Will we never be able to achieve consensus on being legitimately Indian, writes Aakash Singh Rathore
Aakash Singh Rathore • 6 years agoSwept away by the exclusivistic sense of the nation, we, in our fear and weakness, are permitting it to define who gets to be a bona fide Indian — always with tragic consequences.
India and the Indian: How a country treats its own is the nationalism to be proud of, writes Omair Ahmad
Omair Ahmad • 6 years agoWhile there is a nationalism that measures India in the world, there is also another nationalism that measures itself of India versus India, which is no less potent, and no less important.
India and the Indian: We're lulled to think that citizens control the narrative, writes Palash Krishna Mehrotra
Palash Krishna Mehrotra • 6 years agoAt present, the nationalism of pitting one against the other seems self-indulgent. Can a poor country afford the luxury of toying with an ideology which is neither taking us back to the intellectual positives nor leapfrogging us to a sky-scraping neon future?
India and the Indian: Watch Fat Mama, Rafeeq Ellias' poignant film on Chinese-Indian émigrés
Rafeeq Ellias • 6 years agoThis is the story of Steven Wan, a Chinese-Indian. It is also the story of several thousand Chinese-Indians who were arbitrarily rounded up in Bengal, Assam and in the hill states of the Northeast and interned in Deoli in the aftermath of the India-China war in 1962.
India and the Indian: Western theories of nationhood don't capture country's complex realities, writes Samrat
Samrat • 6 years agoThe Indian of today includes the unknown woman from the uncontacted tribe of the Sentinelese in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands but it also includes the actress Kalki Koechlin, who is an Indian of French origin. Neither of them is the stereotypical Indian, but both of them are equally Indian
India and the Indian: My nationalism competes with China, not Pakistan, writes Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd
Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd • 6 years agoOur political life, lived around only village panchayats before 1950, is now connected to a larger constitutional democracy. In the future, this nationalist view will gain more prominence. The RSS nationalism will slowly but surely wither away.
The future of Artificial Intelligence, and what it could tell us about being human
Mk Raghavendra • 7 years agoIt would seem that, as if to prepare for the advent of the Artificial Intelligence explosion, humankind is reducing itself to the level of robots.