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  • 6 days ago | deccanchronicle.com | Sucheta Dasgupta

    The Sanyasi Rebellion. The three-year famine of 1769-71. The war cry of “Jai Bhawani”. All themes from the classic Anandamath, written by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, published in 1882. A novel, no doubt, but what no one knows is that it did refer to India’s first war of Independence. Not the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857, but one waged almost a hundred years earlier. The name of its hero missing in that story is Fateh Bahadur Sahi.

  • 3 weeks ago | deccanchronicle.com | Sucheta Dasgupta

    This finely researched book explores the shared legacy of every person growing up in Kolkata. It chronicles the lives of at least 11 forgotten newsmakers. Chief among them is Harry Hobbs, one of Kolkata’s first urban historians. Hobbs arrived in Kolkata in 1883.

  • 2 months ago | deccanchronicle.com | Sucheta Dasgupta

    Quotidian language. Laboured dialogue. Wooden characters. A personal preface from the author on the Oulipo movement and the ouroborus that serves to confuse rather than illumine. Yet this fiction on Ajita, the forerunner of the Charvaka school of thought, forges forth with an inexorable, passionate force, drawing the reader inwards to the centrifuge of its arguments and counter-arguments, and then climaxes in a tremendous emotional payoff.

  • Mar 8, 2025 | deccanchronicle.com | Sucheta Dasgupta

    The philosophy of environmentalism is no more than one century and a quarter old, and marked by intellectual scepticism regarding poor countries' contribution; as economists Lester Thurow and Eric Hobsbawm, curiously, respectively, maintain, “they want[ed] more ‘development’” and “they simply aren’t interested”. Never mind if the 1973 Chipko movement in the Himalaya gives the lie to these assertions.

  • Dec 13, 2024 | deccanchronicle.com | Sucheta Dasgupta

    Writer and editor Githa Hariharan, who successfully challenged the Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act in 1995 to uphold the rights of the mother, has an idea of India that she explores in her new book, This Too Is India: Conversations on Diversity and Dissent (Westland, 2024). In this conversation, she shares a bit of it with Sucheta Dasgupta: Why would you want to centre dissent in your idea of India? All of us agree that diversity is the ground India stands on.

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Sucheta Dasgupta
Sucheta Dasgupta @phaedrus73
8 Aug 24

RT @xavierunclelite: nadeem ka javelin shayad 100gm halka hai

Sucheta Dasgupta
Sucheta Dasgupta @phaedrus73
8 Aug 24

Happy for Pakistan. Arshad Nadeem is awfully talented and its necessity for success was greater than ours!

Sucheta Dasgupta
Sucheta Dasgupta @phaedrus73
8 Aug 24

Happy for Pakistan. Arshad Nadeem is a deserving winner and their necessity for success was so much greater than ours!