Intellectual historian KN Panikkar dies
Noted left-wing historian K N Panikkar, who died at a private hospital in Thiruvananthapuram on Monday, criticized colonial historiography for its simplistic view of culture and highlighted how indigenous intellectuals provided an alternative paradigm of modernity. He turns 90 next month.Panikkar, fondly called KN by his colleagues, was one of a group of historians such … Read more