‘Since I have to go to my village to sell my land along with my wife, please sanction me one-week leave.’ A joke. Perhaps circulated on social media. ‘Lolz’ The reply to the joke. Language is a complicated topic. Not the study of language, but the use and the baggage that come with the use. In…
‘ Go home and think about how many of your friends are different from you.’ Jerry told the audience towards the end of his talk. We don’t realise this, but very often we tend to gravitate towards people who are in some ways similar to us, losing out on difference—difference that will make us richer…
40! She said, when I asked Madhushree how many participants had signed up for the workshop. This was just before I was boarding the flight to Bangalore. Now, for somebody who is neither a historian, nor a history teacher, the prospect of conducting a Teaching Divided Histories workshop for 40 history teachers can be rather…
The first talk as a part of the History for Peace project was titled ‘A missing General, a trusted jeep, and submerged narratives of 1971’. A title like that is enough to pique ones curiosity! Naeem Mohaiemen, who was the speaker for the evening, is a historian and visual artist working in Dhaka and New…
DAY 1 When I arrived at the Harrington Art Centre on the morning of 30th July 2015, I was convinced that my phone had conspired to make me arrive late—it was stubbornly declaring the time to be 8.30 when I could clearly see that seats had already been occupied for the conference that was supposed…
