Patriarchy, INC, The Telegraph
In the year 1929, Virginia Woolf delivered a lecture to women students in Cambridge that is still widely quoted. Here, Woolf highlighted the dominance of male writers in the history of English literature, which she [...]
Jugalbandis – Seven Political Partnerships, The Telegraph
On 6th August 2019, I was having coffee with a group of colleagues at the Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru. We were discussing the abrogation, the previous day, of the abrogation of Article 370 [...]
Beyond Cricket, The Telegraph
I am a member of the Karnataka State Cricket Association, and I live down the road from the Chinnaswamy Stadium. Yet when the opening game of this year’s Indian Premier League was played there last [...]
Scholar-Patriots, Ten Lessons in Intellectual Practice, The Telegraph
Those seeking religious or spiritual instruction may need a guru, who teaches and even orders them toward what he considers the correct path. The shishya is asked to follow the guru implicitly and even blindly. [...]
Gandhi vs Lenin, The Telegraph
I recently came across a book with the intriguing title, Lenin and Gandhi. Its author was the Austrian writer René Fülöp-Miller. The book was published originally in French; what I read was the English translation, [...]
Friends and Icons, The Telegraph
In terms of ancestry, I am a fourth-generation resident of Bengaluru. My paternal great-grandfather moved here in the 19th century from a village in the Thanjavur district, to become a lawyer. His children were raised [...]