http://localhost:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/4895 Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:29:41 GMT 2026-03-14T00:29:41Z http://localhost:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/5260 Title: Indian Society and the Secular Authors: Thapar, Romila Abstract: In speaking about Indian society and the secular, let me say at the outset, that secularism goes beyond just politics, although our political parties have attempted to reduce it to a political slogan. So one party endorses it in theory but hesitates to apply it properly in practice, the other makes fun of it since the party’s foundational ideology is anti-secular. Thu, 01 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT http://localhost:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/5260 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z http://localhost:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/5259 Title: Intimacy and Beyond Authors: Kakar, Sudhir Abstract: A keynote address gives the speaker a license to take a wide-angle views of his subject: in my case, the present state of the Indian couple and the issue of intimacy. It also tempts the speaker to break free of the scholarly constraint of qualifying almost each statement. Mon, 01 Jun 2015 00:00:00 GMT http://localhost:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/5259 2015-06-01T00:00:00Z http://localhost:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/5257 Title: Al-Kindi and Cosmopolitanism in Science Authors: Varma, Vijaya Shankar Abstract: The treatise begins by referring to the story of Archimedes using an array of mirrors to burn the Roman galleys in the harbour of Syracuse during the siege of 215-212 BC. This was discussed in a book by Anthemius of Tralles, a Greek mathematician who lived around 500 CE and was the chief architect of the basilica of Hagia Sophia built in Constantinople under Justinian I. Mon, 01 Jun 2015 00:00:00 GMT http://localhost:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/5257 2015-06-01T00:00:00Z http://localhost:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/5256 Title: Jean Genet: Flanerie, Mimesis, and Journalism Authors: Anjum, Shakeel Abstract: In The Storyteller, Walter Benjamin writes, ‘traces of the storyteller cling to the story the way the handprints of the potter cling to the clay vessel’ (92). In this lamenting essay on the question of a vanished art form, Benjamin’s profound thinking on the communicative gesture of art connects at once the sensuous faculty of touch with history of nature and nature of history. Thu, 01 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT http://localhost:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/5256 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z