But religious and ethnic conflicts continue to plague both countries. Satinder Kumar , who was there in 1947, reflects on the legacy of partition. Poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, painter and educator, Tagore became a celebrity world-wide after he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. A profile by Piali Roy . The question that has long fueled science fiction now drives the study of history.
Historians discuss the magic of freeing the past from the chains of reality.
In books such as Inside Prime Time , The Sixties , and The Twilight of Common Dreams , Todd Gitlin examines the possibilities and limits of social movements, and analyzes the role of the mass media in shaping U.S. political culture. While the Left fragments into groups based on race, gender and sexual preferences, the Right claims to defend the needs of all. In conversation with Jill Eisen , Gitlin discusses how this came to be and what the implications are. The environment that sustains us with jobs, and with public health, education and culture, isn't just being restructured and downsized, it's being pulled out from under our feet. From music to painting to literature, art in the 20th century has been about the smashing of icons.