To be sure, Partition itself was the product of a utopic plan enacting Enlightenment notions about the rational ordering of society. It promised to produce order out of a religiously and linguistically mixed society. It promised a homeland to those out-of-place in nationalist India.
Many who moved did so out of faith in this project, out of conviction, at times against the wishes of their families (most famously, Jinnah’s only daughter did not move). Indeed, the deliberate sacrifice of home and bonds was the price that made the result – participation in the creation of a new nation-state – all the more sacred. (See oral histories in Anam Zakaria,
Priya Satia: Why poetry remains a primary resource in remembering and understanding the Partition
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What is the poet’s role in history? For a historian of Britain like myself, this question calls to mind the work of EP Thompson, who read the history of the English working class with one eye on the Romantic poets who sensitively captured the social and cultural transformations of the revolutionary late 18th century.
Their notions of place, people and conflict were also shaped by the imperial expansion unfolding in precisely the same moment, and they waxed orientalists even in their defences of freedom. Thompson’s favourite among the Romantics was the prophetic William Blake, partly for his consistent anti-imperialism. He disapproved of William Wor
Art, music can t be contained in a box: Pakistani actress Sarwat Gilani on artiste ban
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Art, music can t be contained in a box: Pakistani actress Sarwat Gilani on artiste ban.(photo:IANSLIFE) Image Source: IANS News
Art, music can t be contained in a box: Pakistani actress Sarwat Gilani on artiste ban.(photo:IANSLIFE) Image Source: IANS News
New Delhi, July 10 : Ace Pakistani actress Sarwat Gilani says that the ban on Pakistani artists in India is a temporary phase that both the countries are going through and emphasizes that the people of the two countries don t want this to happen .
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আলো ‘কমে’ আসিতেছে যাঁরা বিবেকবান চিন্তক, তাঁদের অসম্মানে গণতন্ত্রেরই বিপদ চিন্ময় গুহ ০৩ জুলাই ২০২১ ০৬:০৪
সম্প্রতি গণতন্ত্রের পক্ষে অত্যন্ত বিপজ্জনক এক সঙ্কেত লক্ষ করছি আমরা। অমর্ত্য সেনের অসম্মান দেখেছি, দেখেছি রোমিলা থাপারদের অমর্যাদা। তবে কি এই দেশে বিদ্বান ও চিন্তকের আর কোনও মূল্য বাকি রইল না?
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