A float in the Krewe of Thoth parade - Mardi Gras 2008
Apropos of the reason for this Hindu festival: Questions Lit Up, in which Pratap Bhanu Mehta takes on the Delhi University ban on teaching A.K. Ramanujan“s essay on the Ramayana and chides the Indian left and right for hijacking the culture for political gain.
… The Right commits the mistake of assimilating all tradition to one single glob, undifferentiated, where nuances don’t matter. But equally, the so-called Left has created intellectual divisions and categories of understanding that bear no relation to the texts at hand.
