Living in the age of ‘fast capitalism’ has created a homogeneized expectation of quick service as the hallmark of experiencing time. The idea of service is embedded in the notions around work and work ethics, social hierarchies, and not least, legal punitive cultures which varies in different societies. It is interesting to connect the past

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The man in the photograph is Vishwanath Vithoba Shende of village Tekadi, taluka Mul, district Chandrapur. The meaning of Vishwanath is ‘Lord of the World’ but this Vishwanath was a bonded labourer. He was around 40 – 45 years old in 2001, landless and working as a labourer in the farm of a village landlord.

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      शिक्षक-गुरुजी-मास्तर या तीन अक्षरी शब्दाला दोन दशकापूर्वी अतिशय मानमरातब लाभलेला होता. चौथी पास, सातवी पास, दहावी पास गुरुजींचा शब्द गावागावांमध्ये प्रमाणित मानल्या जायचा. गुरुजीला जगातल्या सर्वच गोष्टी येतात असंच मानल्या जायचं. व्यंकटेश माडगूळकरांच्या बनगरवाडी कादंबरीतील राजाराम विठ्ठल सौंदणीकर गुरुजी साऱ्यांनाच त्यामुळे आठवतात. पुढे पुढे बारावी पास सोबतच डी. एड. पास उमेदवार शिक्षक

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Imroz I think passion I think of you I think devotion I think of you. I see you pouring a cup of tea More intense than her midnight poetry. Sometimes she appears, as she wrote she would Lighting your canvas with a spark Sometimes as a magical line Piercing right through your heart. Her tumultuous ink swirls and

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Saumya Dey What is wokeness? It is the advocacy culture, or the tendency to advocate and promote this or that cause. The apparent intention of ‘wokeness’ or the advocacy culture is to deliver greater justice and equity to the citizenry or members of the social body. It seeks to do so by making constant demands

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