The elders had been convinced by a series of mysterious deaths in the village that showering was a fatal affair. “We’ve lost twenty odd...

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...

As an architect in India, having spent half a decade learning about the importance of 'context' (and the multitudes of it present in...

The farmers of India won a historic battle against the government and forced it to repeal the three pro-capitalist farm laws which...

Jens Lerche is Reader in Labour and Agrarian Studies at SOAS, University of London. He is a specialist on caste oppression, rural and...

Aseem Shrivastava trained as an environmental economist at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He taught philosophy at the Nordic...

Ashish Kothari is an environmentalist and a vocal critic of conventional narratives of conservation and development. He is the founder of...

Sweat running down her spine, Burning away her life, standing in front of the stove, Stomach cut into two, butchered for two, I look in...

This Dussehra marks the third anniversary of my writing career. Of course, I had started writing a few months before that, but it was...

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If schools cannot afford to have safe spaces for discourses and canvassing against caste consciousness, India will continue to witness an...

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

In the early hours of a Sunday, On the backlane of a small town, a patch of bougainvilleas arrive into full bloom on a strange brick...

We read our histories, especially the chaos and tragedy, to make sense of where we are and what brought us here. As witnesses to its...

Why A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes Feels so Personal I As children we see our parents as immortals. But while growing up, there comes a...

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...

I.Heteronyms I’ve followed my shadow for as long as the two of us can remember. Once a month, she takes the lead by example for a few...

this time, it’ll be different he is different his family doesn’t slit pigeons for kali puja they free the birds who do they think...

As I write this, 42 days into a nation-wide lockdown in India, I realise that almost anything I say about the absurdity of the pandemic...