Teaching at Fifty-Six
Inspired by the words of Thoreau, Whitman, Emerson, Dickinson, and other patron saints of American literature, I tell my students, in...
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- Jan 7, 2020
- 1 min
Belonging to the Loved Ones
Why make a sound or noiseor do anything to the page?Unison playing from polyphony,music evolves toward simplicity.Gould’s assertion that...
- Dec 24, 2019
- 4 min
Curfewed Nights – Part II
The protests and the violence along with it spread like wildfire. To make matters worse we had Akhil Gogoi, leader of the Krishak Mukti...
- Dec 24, 2019
- 6 min
Curfewed Nights – Part I
There was an easiness in the winter breeze that blew on December 8, 2019. I say that because nature always has its way of indicating...
- Dec 17, 2019
- 4 min
Dude, You Can’t Just Shut Down the Internet in 2019
If liberal democracy has been the most successful political idea of the last 400 years, then the internet and social media more...
- Dec 14, 2019
- 2 min
The World’s Guilt
The following is a speech from the movie Judgement at Nuremberg (1961) delivered by the character Hans Rolfe played by Maxmilian Schell....
- Dec 12, 2019
- 4 min
Forrest Gump As My Spiritual Guru
The lines “Run, Forrest, run!” are etched in public memory as one of the most memorable scenes of cinema history, when young Forrest...
- Dec 11, 2019
- 3 min
Fear and Loathing in Assam
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the...
- Dec 10, 2019
- 4 min
The ‘All-Consuming’ Romantic Love
Before I begin, I would like to clarify that neither are my words an absolute truth, nor do I have any large-scale empirical evidence to...
- Nov 10, 2019
- 6 min
Brothers in Arms
“Babri now lay in rubbles. They are saying they have demolished the mosque.” “Really?! What do we do now Pranjit?” “Don’t worry Seema. We...
- Nov 6, 2019
- 2 min
Donald Trump and the Banality of Evil
It is not surprising that Donald Trump is facing impeachment proceedings. It is surprising that he is finally facing impeachment...
- Nov 5, 2019
- 1 min
Where is the Outrage for Delhi?
This week Greta Thunberg appeared on the Ellen Show and met with Leonardo Di Caprio and Arnold Schwarzenegger as part of her visit to Los...
- Aug 11, 2019
- 4 min
Parag Das and the Search for Assamese Identity
In contemporary history of Assam, Parag Das is the most important thinker and activist who provided the ideological foundation for...
- Aug 9, 2019
- 2 min
A Tale Of Two States
For a state so strategically situated and so economically vital, Assam has rarely ever found itself sharing any common history with the...