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GHALIB, A DIARY: A NOTE BY ARVIND KRISHNA MEHROTRA– An Excerpt from Book of Rahim, a new book in the Literary Activism series

GHALIB, A DIARY: A NOTE BY ARVIND KRISHNA MEHROTRA– An Excerpt from Book of Rahim, a new book in the Literary Activism series

Ghalib wrote the Dastanbūy (Nosegay) between May 1857 and September 1858. It is his formal petition to Queen Victoria for the restoration of his pension, which had been stopped by the East India Company.

‘We shall see’: an excerpt from a new book in the Literary Activism series, On Being Indian by Amit Chaudhuri

‘We shall see’: an excerpt from a new book in the Literary Activism series, On Being Indian by Amit Chaudhuri

Students at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Kanpur sang Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s‘ Hum Dekhenge’ in protest and in solidarity with students..

Beyond Eurocentrism and Anti-Eurocentrism

Beyond Eurocentrism and Anti-Eurocentrism

My two-volume book, Europe: A Philosophical History (Routledge, 2021), explores the vicissitudes of the modern European idea of Europe’s exemplary modernity...

The 6<sup>th</sup> Symposium in the ‘Literary Activism’ series: ‘Decolonisation’. Schedule for 20<sup>th</sup> and 21<sup>st</sup> March 2021

The 6th Symposium in the ‘Literary Activism’ series: ‘Decolonisation’. Schedule for 20th and 21st March 2021

Hosted by Ashoka University, in partnership with TORCH, Oxford University, the India Oxford Initiative, and the India International Centre...

‘English New Year’ and other poems

‘English New Year’ and other poems

The English translations below, of three poems by the 19th-century Bengali poet Iswar Gupta, are part of an ongoing project.