Emotionally Speaking

Essay: Living with Differences

The following essay was submitted to the Indian Express and Citizens for Peace annual Essay Competition 2007. The topic was ‘living with differences.’ It did not win any prize or any special mention. I just thought it might be suffocating in my archives. So, I am giving it some air here as I release it to [...]

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Trip to Hyderabad

I had written an account of our M.A. class  Hyderabad field trip in mid- March 2005. I discovered it in the cellar! ____________________________________________________ My class, M.A. fourth semester, centre for political studies (CPS), JNU was in the villages of Rangareddy and Nalgonda districts in Andhara Pradesh from march 16 to march 22 on account of a [...]

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Prof. Madhavan Palat: An introduction

The following was written in mid-March 2004. I was impressed by his no-nonsense disposition while conducting a seminar in which Martha Nussbaum was the lead speaker. He was the SSS dean and I had met him only once earlier for some paper work. He had suggested some grammatical corrections to it which unfortunately I forgot [...]

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Professor Gurpreet Mahajan [CPS, JNU]

The poem on the professor was written on 06 April, 2004. She is a professor with the Centre for Political Studies (CPS), JNU, New Delhi. This is being published without her permission. Photo Courtesy: JNU website. Click here for her faculty profile (JNU). Note: the poem may have grammatical errors/typos. 1 I think we should acquaint all [...]

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