Karnal, ‘the small town making good’, decides to kill one of its daughters for honour. Honour? View from India tells you what’s honour for the Karnalites:
Honour, it seems, in this context doesn’t really mean adherence to a set of personal ethics and values, of being upright in your conduct. Rather, it lies in what others [...]
Archive for May 18th, 2008
A woman officer in the Indian Air Force decides to marry a junior, non-commissioned officer- how does the IAF deal with this problem? It decides to conduct a survey among’ lady officers’ across the country. Pragmatic asks: Isn’t it appalling that Air headquarters should even contemplate a survey to decide the private affairs of [...]
Venetia Ansell posts a pair of interviews with Ketu Katrak, Professor of comparative Literature at UC, Irvine, and Bill Rauch, of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, who worked to bring Sudraka’s Mrcchakatika to the Festival audiences. Why the Mrcchakatika? Bill Rauch replies:
The Little Clay Cart is one of my all-time favorite plays because of its inclusive [...]
Indiequill analyses the “mother-daughter test”, in which one is supposed to
take a given set of circumstances and try to imagine someone dear to you in that scenario to check whether you’d be inclined to let it stand. It’s been applied to everything from MF Hussain’s paintings to IPL cheerleaders - as in, would you be [...]
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