Dear reader, here is the crux of the matter: I am not colonised. I have made Christmas my own.

One of the key figures of India's renaissance in the nineteenth century, the social reformer, philanthropist and anti-colonial activist made more than one contribution that have made the annals of our history richer.

The biggest case for questioning the Goddess as a possible feminist seems to be the lack of evidence that the Goddess ever stands for women, or affirms their bodily experience, their mental wills and desires, their social bonds, their personal weaknesses and strengths.

How does learning happen? How can we make it happen? These are the questions we need to resolve, instead of looking at the child and the child's family as the problem.

The last of a generation of musicians born in the 1920s, he will be remembered as a legendary and innovative sitar player.