When readers open the pages of this issue, it will be at the conclusion of the 2022 IIC Experience: A Festival of the Arts, a time when the three streams come together as one. [...] But more than nandy, the film captures the period of partition; the partition of the country as also the partition of the team. [...] yogendra narain discusses the many facets of the civil–military relationship in India—from the British Indian army when the military was used to supress the freedom movement, to Independence when we realised the need to keep the military away from politics to ensure a stable democracy. [...] Unlike India, Sinharaja Tammita-delgoda writes, Sri Lanka never had a separate military culture, but the current implosion has changed the role of the military, making it the object of the people’s anger and frustration. [...] If I were to think of the most significant development during the year, it would be the election of ms droupadi murmu as president of India, the first tribal woman to be elected to the position; a woman who came up the hard way.
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