I had just returned from a trip to Cubbon Park with a close friend of over ten years. We were meeting for the first time after the third...

What is the use of reading Literature? As an English literature researcher, I have been asked this question more than once. And believe...

Why are we so drawn to death? At the core of our grief, do we really have a yearning for sorrow? Being a person guided by spiritual...

During the beginning of the pandemic last year, there was a lot of uncertainty in the air from both the public and the government. But...

“How did we even get here?” I heard this question come out like a bullet wrapped in frustration, sorrow, and fear; shot aimlessly into...

Poetry has been and continues to be a significant part of the culture of resistance as well as an empowering instrument in the hands of...

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Political powers, empires, kingdoms, nation-states, and other governance systems have repeatedly sought legitimacy through their...

As the world wraps its head around the dangers of Climate Change, most of us, scratch that—some of us are anxiously learning and actively...

"The Ice Age Cometh", a short story by Indian astrophysicist Jayanth V. Narlikar opens with a bizarre scene — snowfall in Mumbai. The...

Having carved a distinctively progressive authorial identity within the corpus of Urdu literature in the 20th century, the study of Ismat...

W.H. Auden wrote The Unknown Citizen in the year 1939, at the peak and in the epi-centre of modernist writing, just after he had recently...

This year I came across a very interesting book—interesting because I found it relatable even though it was released in Germany in 1966....

It was the morning of 30th September; I was sitting in my favourite chair, facing the blue and orange hues of the sky, sipping my ginger...

One of the earliest playwrights to have written an absurdist drama outside of pre/post-war Europe happens to be mostly unknown to...

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On 24th September 2010, in a publicised congressional hearing, Stephen Colbert, a comedian, gave his testimony to a judiciary...

Reading Time: 10min I sat in silence, stunned, and slowly shut the book. I held it to my chest for a moment before immediately flipping...

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French philosopher Alain Badiou in his essay ‘On Cinema as a Democratic Emblem’ comments upon the paradoxical nature of films, which with...