Shallow-Deep
Said shallow to deep, ‘How can you be generous when you have so little?’ Said deep to shallow, ‘I have enough. I am quite content.’ ‘How...
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- May 9
- 8 min
Portraits in Hell
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...
- Apr 26
- 6 min
Human Loneliness, the Predatory Nature of Surveillance Capitalism, and the Prophetic Powers of Art
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...
- Apr 20
- 5 min
Approach to Architecture in India: In Search of the Modern Vernacular
As an architect in India, having spent half a decade learning about the importance of 'context' (and the multitudes of it present in...
- Apr 13
- 5 min
Lessons from the Farmers’ Protest: Mutual Aid, Decentralisation and Direct Democracy
The farmers of India won a historic battle against the government and forced it to repeal the three pro-capitalist farm laws which...
- Apr 13
- 10 min
Interview: Jens Lerche and Alpa Shah
Jens Lerche is Reader in Labour and Agrarian Studies at SOAS, University of London. He is a specialist on caste oppression, rural and...
- Apr 13
- 50 min
Interview: Aseem Shrivastava
Aseem Shrivastava trained as an environmental economist at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He taught philosophy at the Nordic...
- Apr 13
- 33 min
Interview: Ashish Kothari
Ashish Kothari is an environmentalist and a vocal critic of conventional narratives of conservation and development. He is the founder of...
- Dec 29, 2021
- 1 min
A Love Poem
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...
- Dec 15, 2021
- 11 min
The Broken Idol: Agnostic Musings on Religion
This Dussehra marks the third anniversary of my writing career. Of course, I had started writing a few months before that, but it was...
- Dec 13, 2021
- 2 min
Women on the Street
"Gill Valentine’s research on adult versus youth spaces found that girls paradoxically identify public spaces, such as city streets, as...
- Nov 30, 2021
- 7 min
Why Are Schools Shying Away From Talking About Caste in Classrooms?
If schools cannot afford to have safe spaces for discourses and canvassing against caste consciousness, India will continue to witness an...
- Nov 22, 2021
- 6 min
The Question of Literature and Adivasi Expression
What is the use of reading Literature? As an English literature researcher, I have been asked this question more than once. And believe...
- Oct 17, 2021
- 1 min
The Season of Florescence
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...
- Oct 11, 2021
- 6 min
Memory-Memorial: Reconfiguring Narratives
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...
- Oct 9, 2021
- 7 min
Review: A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes by Rodrigo Garcia
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...
- Oct 3, 2021
- 11 min
The Art of an Ever-Present Nostalgia
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...
- Sep 15, 2021
- 2 min
Grammatical Gender
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...
- Sep 5, 2021
- 1 min
Sacrifice
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...
- May 5, 2020
- 7 min
Epidemics and Literature – How literature can help us make sense of these uncertain times.
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...