Ours but to do and dieThe news that flashed across television screens a few days ago had a numbing familiarity about it: ten people had been killed in a bomb blast outside the Delhi High Court, scores more were injured. It was only some weeks ago that multiple bomb blasts, engineered by another terrorist outfit, [...]
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*Ours But To Do and Die: The Culture and Politics of Death in India
Posted in Global Politics, Indian Politics, Terrorism and Its Politics, The Politics of Indian Culture, tagged 'Now We are All Americans', 26/11, Banaras as City of Death, Banaras as City of Light, Bengal famines of 1770s and 1943, culture of death in India, Delhi High Court blast, French attitudes towards America, Ivan Illich, life expectancy in India, Mahabharata on death and birth, Manikarnika, medicalization of death, missing women in India, most wondrous thing in life, Mumbai 2008 attacks, Pentagon, Philippe Aries, rituals of death in India, Sept 11 attacks, sifnificance of 9/11, terrorist strikes in India, Yaksha Prashna on September 12, 2011 | 4 Comments »
