Guna akka did not let me leave without a packet of guavas. She pushes it into my hand and refuses to take it back, along with a slightly...

Reading Time: 6min In March 2019, I found myself in a quaint little village called Galgibag, resting at the edge of the Karnataka-Goa...

After hearing the “rumour” that an unknown virus similar to SARS appeared in Wuhan, I started wearing the mask in Shanghai this early...

Inspired by the words of Thoreau, Whitman, Emerson, Dickinson, and other patron saints of American literature, I tell my students, in...

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...

– Anu Shrivastava By the evening of 5th September 2018, the nation knew that five judges of the Supreme Court of India would be deciding...

The rage against the fats is today being steered by the Keto diet, with celebrities raving all about it and normal people joining the...

The Central Government introduced the RTI Amendment Bill 2018 on July 19, 2018. The bill, inter alia, primarily, attempts to fix specific...

Ingmar Bergman turns 100 years old today! To celebrate the centenary of the magician, here are a few articles and recommended essential...

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...

This week’s film is Steven Soderbergh’s 2018 experimental psychological horror thriller ‘Unsane’ starring Claire Foy, Joshua Leonard and...

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...

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...

Nick Srnicek and the accelerationists saw the Cambridge Analytica scandal coming a long time ago. Last year in August, in The Guardian,...

This week’s addition to Sunday Reading List comes from Ron Srigley. Srigley writes a timely essay, critiquing the functioning of...

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...

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...

“As women, we have been taught either to ignore our differences, or to view them as causes for separation and suspicion rather than as...

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...

On January 23, 2018, Catharsis will turn a year old. For the same, we invite submissions from our readers. We appreciate critical pieces...