Dec 7, 20207 minFieldnotes On Love and CitiesGuna 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...
Aug 23, 20207 minIn-Between Development – Freezing Time in a Changing VillageReading 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, 20207 minLife in lockdownAfter hearing the “rumour” that an unknown virus similar to SARS appeared in Wuhan, I started wearing the mask in Shanghai this early...
Feb 14, 202010 minTeaching at Fifty-SixInspired by the words of Thoreau, Whitman, Emerson, Dickinson, and other patron saints of American literature, I tell my students, in...
Jan 23, 20194 minLetters | How I discovered my real sexualityI 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, 20186 minJournal: 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, 20185 minThe World is Trying the Keto Diet, Have You?| Akhileshwari Anand RajThe rage against the fats is today being steered by the Keto diet, with celebrities raving all about it and normal people joining the...
Jul 29, 20181 minDiluting the Right To Information in India?| Sunday Reading ListThe Central Government introduced the RTI Amendment Bill 2018 on July 19, 2018. The bill, inter alia, primarily, attempts to fix specific...
Jul 14, 20181 minIngmar Bergman at 100 | Sunday Reading ListIngmar Bergman turns 100 years old today! To celebrate the centenary of the magician, here are a few articles and recommended essential...
Jun 17, 20181 minThe Rage of the Incels | Jia TolentinoThis 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 18, 20181 minFilm of the Week | UnsaneThis week’s film is Steven Soderbergh’s 2018 experimental psychological horror thriller ‘Unsane’ starring Claire Foy, Joshua Leonard and...
May 11, 20181 minMusic of the Week | Childish GambinoIn 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, 20181 minThe Clarity of a Suicide Note | Manash BhattacharjeeFor 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, 20181 minAccelerationism: how a fringe philosophy predicted the future we live in | Andy BeckettNick Srnicek and the accelerationists saw the Cambridge Analytica scandal coming a long time ago. Last year in August, in The Guardian,...
Mar 25, 20181 minWhose University Is It Anyway | Ron SrigleyThis week’s addition to Sunday Reading List comes from Ron Srigley. Srigley writes a timely essay, critiquing the functioning of...
Feb 26, 20184 minThe Tree of Life | Arnab SenguptaA 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 18, 20182 minThe Feminist Pursuit of Good Sex | Nona Willis-AronowitzThis 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 28, 20182 minThe 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, 20182 minXenos: Jacques Derrida on Hospitality| Peter BensonJacques 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, 20181 minCatharsis First Anniversary IssueOn January 23, 2018, Catharsis will turn a year old. For the same, we invite submissions from our readers. We appreciate critical pieces...