Yes, Girish Karnad is certainly entitled to his views about Rabindranath Tagore being a second-rate playwright. He is certainly not alone, nor this the first time he has said something like this...
Ananya Mukherjee Reed
Editor
When we speak of inequality and democracy, B.R. Ambedkar's name is almost automatically invoked, but the iconic poet and creative genius (whose 150th birth anniversary falls today), is rarely thought of...
How does the government hope to choose between the destitute, the poor, and the barely surviving; or if you like, the starving, the chronically hungry, the malnourished, the anaemic and the food insecure?
There seems to be lack of direction and an absence of a deeper analytical understanding of what the media's role should be in this rather grave situation. Its choreography of catharsis has taken a dangerous turn.
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