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Umberto Eco’s novel The Name of the Rose revolves around a series of murders that take place in a Benedictine abbey of the fourteenth century. One of the intriguing structures in the abbey is the library. Except for the librarian, no one else is permitted to enter this library. If anyone attempts to enter, they [...]
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John Thomas Bobby Kunhu Some years back, one of my good activist friends – very prominent, secular and politically articulate quoted her daughter to indicate that she had “no problems” with homosexuality as long as it did not involve her children or siblings!! In 1996, during the initial presentation on “Discrimination based on Sexual Orientation” [...] Bobby Kunhu
A preacher went on and on with his sermon – he thought that he was doing a great job – and as part of a well-rehearsed dramatic pause, he asks, “So friends, what more do I need to say”. A confident voice shouts out from somewhere in the middle [...] Bobby Kunhu
Another death, another celebrity, another space and and so many more questions on transitory choices of identities. I am not searching for commonalities, but am wondering aloud about one interesting commonality – choice of conversion to a religion – that believes itself to persecuted – Islam!! Though Michael [...] Bobby Kunhu
This is not an obituary, but reflections that have been troubling me since the demise of the poet Kamala Suraiya and various reactions to her life, particularly one incident in her life that has provoked extreme reactions – her conversion to Islam On one hand, some people wearing the [...] |
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