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Two Poems by Sonali Pattnaik

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  • Posted on July 16, 2020

By Sonali Pattnaik
can you hear thousands chanting,
as they march hand in hand,
‘not in my name’, ‘not in my name.’

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Recollecting Happy Memories from Pre-COVID Days

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  • Posted on July 16, 2020

By Prithvijeet Sinha
Make it a point to reach out to the near and dear ones and share the warmth of memories, making the current social turnaround one of courage and goodwill. It is time to be united.

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Can the Indian judiciary uphold the rights of the oppressed?

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  • Posted on July 14, 2020July 14, 2020

By Soma Mandal
The negative choice of words to categorise reservation as a constitutional discretion also trivializes to a great extent the violent history of the caste system against the socially and educationally backwards classes.

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War and the Female Gaze in Waad al-Kateab’s ‘For Sama’

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  • Posted on July 11, 2020

By Bijaya Biswal
A young Waad al-Kateab arms herself with a camera around men equipped with snipers and tells us the story of a war from the perspective of a woman.

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Short Story: From the hyper-real to real

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  • Posted on July 10, 2020July 10, 2020

By Sunil Sharma
Glittering. Luminous. Blue alternating with tiny white. Sparkling dots tucked away in the vault above. Serene sky. A soothing moon beaming down.

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‘I can’t breathe’: George Floyd and the Black American Resistance

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  • Posted on July 10, 2020July 10, 2020

By Smriti Singh
401 years after the first group of men and women from what is now the nation of Angola arrived as slaves, it is still the African American labouring to make the United States of America truly democratic.

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Blue Collar (1978): A reminder that a classless society is still a far-fetched dream

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  • Posted on July 9, 2020

By Kanak Mishra
Even in today’s times, Blue Collar is yet another reminder that a classless society is still a far-fetched dream for the world where the capitalist structures will always pit those at the bottom rung against each other by hook or crook.

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Sweet Nothings

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  • Posted on July 9, 2020

By Mohamed Shafeeq Karinkurayil
Sweet nothings are an outlier to the language and yet exist within the realms of the intelligible. The signifier of the sweet nothing is not available through convention, it is the sporadic moment of invention itself.

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Two Poems by Babra Shafiqi

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  • Posted on July 8, 2020July 8, 2020

By Babra Shafiqi
No one attends the stale fly’s last rites,
No one mourns like clouds, their thundering sobs
Or the drops of tap water shaped as a noose

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Megha Majumdar’s ‘A Burning’: A Story of Contemporary India

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  • Posted on July 8, 2020

By Shafey Anwarul Haque
Megha Majumdar’s A Burning is worthy of becoming a bestseller and the author deserves all the praise for bravely unearthing the bitter truth of our time.

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Short Story: Miracle Moments of a Millennial Mum

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  • Posted on July 7, 2020July 7, 2020

By Tanvi Saraf
The ghost of my missing maid is floating above me, bobbing up and down against the bathroom ceiling, side by side with my deceased sense of worth. She bolted right before I was due to deliver my second-born.

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Jacques Derrida, the Outsider

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  • Posted on July 6, 2020July 6, 2020

By Prerna Kalbag
Always pushed to a corner when considering the far more horrendous suffering of the European Jews in comparison, Derrida did acknowledge the trauma that the situation marked in him at the deepest level, making him ‘the person he was’.

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Two Poems by Syed Aamir Sharief Qadri

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  • Posted on July 5, 2020July 5, 2020

By Syed Aamir Sharief Qadri
The people here are not authorized to talk loud
They usually talk in hints, signs and gestures.

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Fair & Lovely: A not so “fair” decision

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  • Posted on July 5, 2020

By Sivakami Prasanna
Beginning thus with the Aryan Invasion theory, fair skin began to be associated with power, intellect, and civilization, while dark skin started to be associated with negative values, creating problematic and opposing binaries.

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Poem: Erasing History

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  • Posted on July 4, 2020July 4, 2020

By Mitali Chakravarty
Can a land be unfound?
Can History be unwound?
Can Time be redeemed?

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Reading Ghalib in the post Covid-19 scenario

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  • Posted on July 4, 2020July 4, 2020

By Amrita Sharma
This article attempts to present the possibilities of interpreting some of the most famous couplets by Ghalib in the present socio-cultural context through the lens of everyday life.

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Short Story: A Fake Lotus

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  • Posted on July 1, 2020July 1, 2020

By Vivek Nath Mishra
It was foolish to pamper this fear anymore. She agreed to what her husband had said. It took her time but it was worth it as finally a day came when she gave her consent to him to plant lotus.

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E-learning: A dream for students and teachers in J&K

  • by Cafe Dissensus Everyday
  • Posted on June 28, 2020June 28, 2020

By Ishfaq Majid & Shazia Kouser
Due to low internet speed, the teachers are unable to deliver the lectures on online Apps like Zoom, Cisco and Google Meet. The students face a similar problem while accessing online education in the state.

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Two Poems by Sonnet Mondal

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  • Posted on June 28, 2020June 28, 2020

By Sonnet Mondal
The city leans over the Yamuna
to clean its wounds.

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Why do Kashmiris hang bottles filled with coloured water?

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  • Posted on June 27, 2020June 27, 2020

By Tanveer Khan & Wasia Hamid
People in Kashmir have assigned a significance to the hanging of coloured water bottles with the belief that it would protect them from the evil eye, coronavirus, crackdown, and encounters.

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