by Ayyappadas Enlightenment, as a political word, has come to become the equivalent of an f-word in the dictionary of post-structural schools and identity politics groups. This is not so much owing to the fact that horrendous crimes were committed during that historical period in and by the Europe, or that at least some people…
by Akhil Bharathan Indulge me to ask you a question. What is common between a tight slap lesson given to an apparently lowly lad who herds buffalo by a great champion of virtues, and the communal violence against a minority group? Don’t be surprised to know that it is the ugly hue, cry and uproar…
by Ayyappadas The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting – Milan Kundera There is an interesting petition circulated in social media addressing the director of IIT Madras to stop inviting people like Teesta Setalvad. (I have already posted my version of the chain of events that happened there) I liked the like, and could not…
by Ayyappadas The sane report Teesta Setalvad gave a talk at Central Lecture Theatre (CLT), Indian Institute of Technology Madras, on February 10, 2014, between 5:30 and 7:00 PM. The question and answer session that followed was a pandemonium. A few people, probably with a Hindu right-wing background, tried to disrupt the programme by not…
IITians for Democracy, Pluralism and Human Rights 