Ghoora [घूरा] Ramayana and the politics of interpretation By Ratnakar Tripathy Some time ago when I read that the Delhi University has removed A K Ramanujan’s essay on the Ramayana from its syllabus, my eyes shot up to my bookshelves above where I stared at my two favourites before pulling them out after months – Father Kamil Bulcke’s ‘Ramkatha’ in Hindi, his D. Phil thesis in fact where he discusses the many versions of the story, and A K Ramanujan’s ‘Folk Tales from India’. Instead of feeling any anger towards the bad faith behind the move, which would have been... 

Dear home: Letters from an NRB Don’t Sing the Song that we don’t like: South Asian Intolerance to Critical Literature By Dev N Pathak editorial note: Dev N Pathak’s column did not appear on Saturday due to unavoidable glitch. It is now being posted on Sunday, instead. Apologies to the loyal readers of the column! One of the professors of the group, which was entrusted with the task of deciding on the texts/literature for the course in history for undergraduate students in the colleges of the University of Delhi, made it clear- teachers are not equipped to deal with the complexity...