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- Aug 23, 2020
- 7 min
In-Between Development – Freezing Time in a Changing Village
Reading Time: 6min In March 2019, I found myself in a quaint little village called Galgibag, resting at the edge of the Karnataka-Goa...
- May 1, 2020
- 7 min
Life in lockdown
After hearing the “rumour” that an unknown virus similar to SARS appeared in Wuhan, I started wearing the mask in Shanghai this early...
- Feb 14, 2020
- 10 min
Teaching at Fifty-Six
Inspired by the words of Thoreau, Whitman, Emerson, Dickinson, and other patron saints of American literature, I tell my students, in...
- Jan 23, 2019
- 4 min
Letters | How I discovered my real sexuality
I had always believed that you can’t control your thoughts, but you can control your actions. So when I wanted to punch my teacher in the...
- Sep 8, 2018
- 6 min
Journal: The 377 judgement, history as it happened
– Anu Shrivastava By the evening of 5th September 2018, the nation knew that five judges of the Supreme Court of India would be deciding...
- Aug 11, 2018
- 5 min
The World is Trying the Keto Diet, Have You?| Akhileshwari Anand Raj
The rage against the fats is today being steered by the Keto diet, with celebrities raving all about it and normal people joining the...
- Jul 30, 2018
- 1 min
Diluting the Right To Information in India?| Sunday Reading List
The Central Government introduced the RTI Amendment Bill 2018 on July 19, 2018. The bill, inter alia, primarily, attempts to fix specific...
- Jul 15, 2018
- 1 min
Ingmar Bergman at 100 | Sunday Reading List
Ingmar Bergman turns 100 years old today! To celebrate the centenary of the magician, here are a few articles and recommended essential...
- Jun 18, 2018
- 1 min
The Rage of the Incels | Jia Tolentino
This week’s Sunday Reading comes from Jia Tolentino’s New Yorker piece, ‘The Rage of the Incels’, in which she argues that being an...
- May 19, 2018
- 1 min
Film of the Week | Unsane
This week’s film is Steven Soderbergh’s 2018 experimental psychological horror thriller ‘Unsane’ starring Claire Foy, Joshua Leonard and...
- May 11, 2018
- 1 min
Music of the Week | Childish Gambino
In a week that has had Kanye West declare that 400 years of slavery was a ‘choice’ and Ta-Nehisi Coates rebuking and putting him in the...
- May 11, 2018
- 1 min
The Clarity of a Suicide Note | Manash Bhattacharjee
For Sunday Reading: The value of a man was reduced to his immediate identity and nearest possibility. To a vote. To a number. To a...
- Mar 28, 2018
- 1 min
Accelerationism: how a fringe philosophy predicted the future we live in | Andy Beckett
Nick Srnicek and the accelerationists saw the Cambridge Analytica scandal coming a long time ago. Last year in August, in The Guardian,...
- Mar 25, 2018
- 1 min
Whose University Is It Anyway | Ron Srigley
This week’s addition to Sunday Reading List comes from Ron Srigley. Srigley writes a timely essay, critiquing the functioning of...
- Feb 26, 2018
- 4 min
The Tree of Life | Arnab Sengupta
A couple of days back, I sat under the shade of the grand decorative mango tree right outside our home, soaking up the brilliant early...
- Feb 19, 2018
- 2 min
The Feminist Pursuit of Good Sex | Nona Willis-Aronowitz
This week’s quick Sunday Reading on the list is a potent Op-Ed piece from Nona Willis-Aronowitz. Writing in the pages of the New York...
- Jan 29, 2018
- 2 min
The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House | Audre Lorde
“As women, we have been taught either to ignore our differences, or to view them as causes for separation and suspicion rather than as...
- Jan 21, 2018
- 2 min
Xenos: Jacques Derrida on Hospitality| Peter Benson
Jacques Derrida knew a thing or two about being an outsider. He was born of Jewish parents in 1930 in Algeria, at that time a French...
- Jan 20, 2018
- 1 min
Catharsis First Anniversary Issue
On January 23, 2018, Catharsis will turn a year old. For the same, we invite submissions from our readers. We appreciate critical pieces...