Residents fill containers with #water supplied by a municipal tanker amid searing temperatures that are causing water shortages and pushing demands on the city’s power grid to a record high.
Anumukherjee by Erberto Zani
‘Taken in Delhi, #India.
Anumukherjee is an #acid attack survivor. In 2004, one of her female friends, jealous of her beauty, attacked her with acid. The criminal was jailed for 10 years and now is free.
Anumukherjee received 22 surgeries but she lost both her eyes. This photo is part of my long-term documentary project called Survivors, about acid attack #survivors around the world’
THE WORLD OF 1950s BOMBAY comes alive in this story of twin sisters trying to follow their own dreams and meet the expectations of their very proper Punjabi family, still unsettled by the violence of Partition. Lovely, rich saga. A MINUS
The first is a rather long post is on Rabindranath #Tagore’s deeply political novel, the Home and the World. It’s an effort read but an important book that reflects his political stances, differing ideologies, and people.
"This paper studies the constitutive role of cartography apropos law, territory, and social order, in a specific historical context, by examining the crucial political role played by the British East India Company's cartographic practices and maps in aspiring and imagining the transplantation and establishment of English sovereignty in the Indian subcontinent."
Today in Writing History May 7, 1861: Indian poet and playwright Rabindranath Tagore was born. Also known as the Bard of Bengal, Tagore was the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. He was also an anti-imperialist and supported Indian nationalism. In 1916, Indian expatriates tried to assassinate him in San Francisco.
Educators and scholars in all fields should find the article informative. It has been cited mostly in reference to Emergency Remote Teaching, but it goes beyond that issue to the role of academics in society, and the case of India. It defines terms including online education, and starts by explaining the difference between a field and a discipline.