International Writers on India at 75: Concern for the Nation's Democracy
Both a letter to the Indian president and a collection of writings on the state of democracy are led by PEN International and PEN America.
Source: publishingperspectives.com
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'Freedom, Even at a Bargain, Is Priceless': Writers Reflect on Where India Is Today
Geetanjali Shree, Yashica Dutt and Amitava Kumar write about their perspectives on the last 75 years and their hopes for the future.
Source: thewire.in
Salman Rushdie Changed Everything
Rushdie’s vision of desi identity, unrestrained by colonialism and above the fray of sectarian cant, should inspire us as he recovers from his wounds.
Source: newrepublic.com
Dubai exhibition tackles 'absence' of cultural references to partition of British India
DUBAI: “In the aftermath of British colonial rule, a few crucial weeks in 1947 initiated complex and still-unresolved processes of displacement, fragmentation, conflict, and nation-building that spanned decades, and which continue to deeply scar the societies and peoples of the subcontinent.” This is how Dubai’s Jameel Arts Center introduces its latest exhibition, “Proposals
Source: arabnews.com
Jameel Arts Centre's 'Proposals for a Memorial to Partition' revisits South Asia
First-hand witnesses to the events that began 75 years ago are fast dwindling; the exhibition acts as a repository, collecting histories and ideas in an ever-changing, ongoing process of memorialisation.
Source: gulftoday.ae