Pragya Tiwari @PragyaTiwari
Writer on politics and culture | Co-founder - @indianhistory_c | Creative Director - Oijo Media | Former Editor - Vice India, The Big Indian Picture, Tehelka pragyatiwari.com Delhi Joined February 2009-
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This essay by @Ram_Guha on the paucity of conservative intellectuals and ideas in India remains one of the most relevent pieces of writing of our times. caravanmagazine.in/reportage/abse… What other essays written in the last decade would you say make the cut?
A standoff between 2 CJs backed by guards over a law library is something that warms the heart.
A standoff between 2 CJs backed by guards over a law library is something that warms the heart.
Was Lala Lajpat Rai’s Hindu nationalism a progenitor to Savarkar's Hindutva? Or did it differ from Hindutva in crucial aspects? Can any form of Hindu nationalism be secular? For answers to all these and more, check out our latest excerpt by @vanyavaidehi: shorturl.at/dkJY6
And I was pleasantly surprised by pieces in the Indian press. Well I was pleasantly surprised by any tributes of any kind - I never really thought about him in the world, he was just my father the classical music, cricket, and Hitchcock enthusiast indianexpress.com/article/opinio…
I reviewed Nico Slate’s biography of Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay for @Openthemag : a fascinating life caught between revolution & reform, between feminism & femininity. openthemagazine.com/lounge/books/k…
Marathon interview with Yogesh Pawar (thank you, bhau) about the theatre in Mumbai, it's cultural politics and what maketh this city click hindustantimes.com/cities/mumbai-…
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Perhaps the BEST conversation I have ever had. @wmarybeard and @christinalamb on Women and Power youtube.com/watch?v=_OyuOD…
Contagion - Historian Julia Hauser and image maker / storyteller Sarnath Banerjee in conversation with the ever thoughtful @PragyaTiwari on their new book, a history of pandemics - The Moral Contagion
The panel discussion will include senior journalists Ishani Dutta Ray, Editor of Ananda Bazar Patrika; @dhanyarajendran, Editor of The News Minute; Ashish Pandey, Editor of Navbharat Times; & Colin Pereira, CPJ’s chief strategist on journalist safety. @OiOijo @pressfreedom…
Join us for the launch of the CPJ Safety Guide for Journalists Covering the Indian Elections 2024! The event will be live-casted on @the_hindu's YouTube channel on Friday March 8 at 5pm IST/6.30am EST: youtube.com/@thehinduoffic… @nramind @PragyaTiwari @dhanyarajendran
Great news - Home Office has overturned their decision & the Afghan youth orchestra will now be coming to UK and playing their women’s day concert at @southbankcentre then Bham,, Liverpool & Manchester. . Pls go see them & show your support for Afghan women & girls 🙏
This story about conversations between a group of Afghani men in exile (and the silence of their wives) over the course of a khatam is so sharp and so moving I read it twice in one go. Written by @JamilJanKochai “On the Night of the Khatam” newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…
We lost Ameen Sayani Saab this week. This interview, which I’m unable to find in the @timesofindia or @mumbaimirror archives exists (thankfully) on a now defunct blog I had put up long ago. It’s from 2005 or 2006, nearly two decades ago. A fresh-faced reporter, I was…
“Athill’s troubles fit the mold of the memoir of suffering, but her unruffled attitude doesn’t.” From this essay by @HillaryKelly on Diana Athill’s brilliant memoirs. newyorker.com/books/under-re…
On nation and familial spaces! Snippets from our #Delhi launch of @sombatabyal’s Red River with @PragyaTiwari and @karthikavk. @ContextIndia
Westland Books hosted an engaging discussion, "Conversations in Context", where Author Somnath Batabyal delved into the depths of his book "Red River" alongside Pragya Tiwari. @PragyaTiwari #FrontlistMedia #RedRiver #InsightfulConversations #AuthorInsights
This is tomorrow, Delhi people. We will be talking about fiction, history, politics and India’s north east. Come say hi. @sombatabyal
This is tomorrow, Delhi people. We will be talking about fiction, history, politics and India’s north east. Come say hi. @sombatabyal
K G Subramanyan. Hundred years of celebrating art. Calcutta. Seagull.
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In this brilliant story @praddenkeefe tells the story of the murder investigation of a Ripleyesque boy taking us into the world of dirty money in posh London. Masterful and essential.
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@PragyaTiwari @Ram_Guha Bharatiya. Sorry for the typo.
@PragyaTiwari @Manik1Sharma This now needs to be reassessed in light of mushrooming of conservative intellectuals in last decade. From Vikram Sampath and J Sai Deepak to Harsh Madhusudhan, Sanjeev Sanyal and several others. @SwarajyaMag
@PragyaTiwari @Ram_Guha Yeah, nothing to do with untouchability practiced by non "conservative" "intellectuals" who went to great extent to deny any & all platforms to people who deviated from the establishment narrative. Destroyed careers on their whim & fancies.
@PragyaTiwari @Ram_Guha Three ways in which Hindutva fills this gap. By delegitimizing preexisting non hindutva scholarship. By inserting raw arguments in public sphere as Bhyaratiya thinking. By slowly producing a set of intellectuals who are working on skeletal outline of contemporary hindutva.
@PragyaTiwari @Ram_Guha Was lucky to be a part of this issue. Think T M Krishna's piece on M S Subbulakshmi was fascinating (even to the uninitiated) and though not essay but Nikita Saxena's investigative report on big tobacco (titled Smokescreen I think - absolute reporting gold.
Attended the rehearsal of this Girish Karnad play at Sahitya Sangh A new kind of directorial approach by Gurleen Judge suggests with some effort "greatness in theatre is still possible" Anyone with a serious interest in the future of theatre should watch this student production
The sequences and consequences of the lack of political healing after genocide is evident...
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Wish you all a shaandaar and a happy Eid. This is a pic at friends’ place celebrating Eid in Germany yesterday. #Eid2024
This is such heartwarming news!!! City on Fire: A Boyhood in Aligarh included in the list of ‘Four Books to Understand Modern India’ compiled by eminent historian @mukulkesavan for the esteemed @ForeignPolicy Magazine. Other books in the list include The Price of Modi Years by…
Gandhiji obsessed over inks. He exhorted scribes "Write in ink" Small-scale ink manufacturers from Guntur + Chandernagore sent him supplies He realised inks required "expert chemical knowledge" He said "Village ink + village paper is not a combination that I can yet advertise"
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Four years of research, 6 notebooks & 2.5 lakh (?!?!) words later, the first draft of KM Panikkar's biography has been SUBMITTED!! 💫💫
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THREAD (Five) Learning a lot about Krishnaji Howlaji Ara (6 April 1914 to 30 June 1985) from Reema Gehi Desai's book Born in Bolarum near Hyderabad, Ara had a darkish complexion + unimpressive persona A bachelor who painted bold/brutal female nudes + much-acclaimed work later
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I had thought listening to this interview with Sudha Bharadwaj would be discouraging and depressing. Instead it was inspiring and life-affirming. Must listen. The world behind bars timesofindia.indiatimes.com/podcasts/the-t… via @timesofindia
6 April In 1930 24 days 78 satyagrahis 241 miles From Sabarmati (Ahmedabad) To Dandi (Navsari)
A standoff between 2 CJs backed by guards over a law library is something that warms the heart.
Justice Oka: When I was being sent to Nagpur, Chief Justice CK Thakker, a learned man, gave me few tips. He said before going, do not forget to read the autobiography of Justice Hidayatullah. Becuase there is a beautiful chapter on the Bar of Nagpur. He beautiful describes doyens…