I live in Shillong and work in the Indira Gandhi National Open University, where I am currently heading the IGNOU Institute For Vocational Education & Training Shillong. I have over thirty one years of academic experience. I am a poet and writer. I also write for children. Previous to joining IGNOU I taught in St Edmund's college Shillong. I hold a doctoral degree on the novels of William Golding.
By Ananya S Guha Patricia Mukhim the noted columnist, recently writing on the Assam carnage, and its sad fall out in different parts of the country, I think made a very crucial and interesting point, which seeks special edification. She said that SMS ands MSSs were being used for propaganda and canards, which is an ominous sign, because it is… Read more →
By Ananya S Guha Now the analyses of the Indian man’s attitude towards the opposite sex are getting complex, if not abstruse. The latest ‘theory’ I read today in The Times of India. The venerable author posited a world view, positioned between the man’s view on stereotypes, and the western world view on lewdness, exposure to bodily sex. First the… Read more →
By Ananya S Guha When politics is mingled with religion, nothing could be more dangerous than this, in a country like India. This is because that religionists who are fanatical are bound to come in the picture. Politics and religion should be studiously kept out in a secular country. Religion, is essentially private, but when religious bodies get interfering to… Read more →
By Ananya S Guha We can disagree with others, but we can always see the `other` point of view. In my recent articles on websites and newspapers I have tried to say minority rights must be protected by the majority. I did not have one response in websites saying that they agreed, instead I had most responses denigrating my views,… Read more →
By Ananya S Guha It is saddening that any time one writes of a kind of rightist element that has penetrated into the socio political ethos of the country, then there will be the intellectual types, the highly qualified and well educated who will react. And in this reaction, they will bring in the Islamic or Christian factor as reactionary… Read more →
By Ananya S Guha One thought that strikes my mind is that in violent situations, such as ethnic strife, what happens to children, who are supposed to be in schools. How do they react to violent situations, hearing about people being killed or actually being a witness to violence and brutal killings? How do they lead lives devoid of play… Read more →
By Ananya S Guha On the eve of Teachers’ Day instead of preparing for celebrations and taking part in a one off day where we tell our teachers how they are the best persons in the world we should take stock of the educational scenario in the country keeping school teachers in mind. The fact is that school teachers in… Read more →
She walked out. She walked out. From the bar they Yelled. She has been drinking. Did you have any inkling? She is an inviolate oxymoron, the cuss, the paradox of what we profess. She is in a mess. Beat her, hit her, Strip her till she cries. No; she dies. First two, three. In seconds, twenty or thirty. Strip… Read more →
By Ananya S Guha The daunting reality of India today is despair, lack of hope, poverty, intolerance, lack of basic amenities such as education, health care and living conditions are aspects which challenge us today. Even after 65 years of Independence one is saddened at such incongruous realities. Decades back in the 1980s M.J. Akbar wrote a very thoughtful and… Read more →
It is the culture of hate which is most bothering in our India, of today. We are no longer Amartya Sen’s Argumentative Indian, we are malcontents, horrified by the presence of each other. We spout the ideology of hate, and see in technology a virus, to stoke virulence. Even the most educated talk of demolition, not of myths but of people… Read more →