Praba Mahajan

Oct 10, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Abdulrahim P Vijapur |K M Seethi |Praba Mahajan |Suresh Khairnar

Syed Ahmad Taqvi bin Syed Muhammad Muttaqi, KCSI (Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India), commonly known as Sir Syed Ahmad Khan (1817-1898), was an Islamic pragmatist, reformer, rationalist, liberal, modernist, creative philosopher, historian, jurist, legislator, statesman, social and human rights activist, and above all a public  intellectual or “a renaissance polymath”, and a renowned  educationist in nineteenth-century British India”.

Oct 9, 2024 | countercurrents.org | K M Seethi |Praba Mahajan |Suresh Khairnar |MA Krishna

The creative mind that was V.C. Harris has long since become a ‘text’—an enduring narrative fused into the cultural and intellectual history of Kerala. It is rare, in any age, to encounter an individual who transcends the limits of authorship, who becomes a living text, one that speaks, breathes, and evolves with time. But Harris, as those of us who had the privilege of knowing him can attest, was one of those rare few.

Sep 30, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Vanaja Jasphine |Praba Mahajan |Ramzy Baroud |William D. Hartung

On the night of September 27th, I was asked to accompany my colleagues to meet a grandmother named Guruvammal to update her about the case. I was astonished to find her sleeping alone in a cowshed, adjacent to a running sewage line. The moment we called her, she woke up to meet us. Her wrinkled skin told the tale of her sacrifices, yet her voice was firm and her movements were full of determination. She takes care of a few cows and earns Rs. 100 per day to meet her daily needs.

Sep 30, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Praba Mahajan |Suresh Khairnar |MA Krishna |Vidyadhar Date

That was my introduction to K K  Mahajan, at 27, with two National Awards, already a ‘star’ cinematographer, with his characteristic long hair and aquiline features. As a research student in Sociology at Bombay University, I met K K with much trepidation, at a screen test for Kumar Shahani’s  Maya Darpan, way back in 1971.Screen test over, the film was shot the following year. And life was never the same again.