By Amrita Sharma
Though written in a historically different context, Kaifi Azmi’s presents one of the most outstanding monologues by a male narrator that is addressed to a ‘woman’ whom he evokes to subvert patriarchal hegemony.
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By Muddasir Ramzan
The grief and regret that they couldn’t be there when Babb and Moji needed them the most would haunt Ammi, Maam Jan, Chota Maam, Pyari, and Choti Masi forever.
By Anwesha Paul
Parasite deserves every accolade that it has received for that illuminating detail which aids things to fall into place in this complex, creative and challenging modern classic which teases, provokes and amazes cine-goers of all hues.
By Zeenat Khan
In Hindi, we call
A lizard Chipkali.
To taste its meaning
Break like nuts
from middle, chip + kali.
By Ikramul Haque
To the dismay of modern ideologues of anti-Mughal narrative, Aurangzeb incorporated more Hindus in his nobility than all the previous Mughal kings, including Akbar. Hindus rose to 31.6 per cent of the high-ranking Mughal nobility as compared to the 22.5 per cent under Akbar.
By Arman Kazmi
Old women in Kashmir quite often utter this phrase while giving their blessings to an unmarried woman, “Khuda Soznei Ruth Kharidar” (May God send a worthy buyer for you).
By Chanda Rani
Politics revolves around the patron-client relationship, paralleling the father-son relationship in which the male member is seen as natural heir depriving women of power.
By Sreemati Mukherjee
Through reminiscences or through travelogue writing or writing of polemical tracts, women discover and simultaneously master a language with which to articulate both self and experience.
By Abdul Hafis
This is yet another example of Islamophobia and many from the Muslim community later posted their photographs with Muslim caps on Facebook expressing their solidarity with the child and his family.
By Kiriti Sengupta
Aesthetes preach Tagore.
Officials display replica of
the Nobel Prize.
By Aaryata Agarwal & Ishika Mittal
The idea here is that society and legal systems have often so spectacularly failed women and justice seems so unattainable that the fantasy of a wronged woman being reborn as a goddess seems like the only way to get something even close to it.
By Mujeeb Jaihoon
The majoritarian regime may be racing to evict and erase the Muslim identity from history and national identity. But the Muslim will remain an integral part of India’s legacy – past, present and future.
By Nupur Paliwal
Our Lady of Alice Bhatti is a groundbreaking work, compassionate and profound in its portrayal of seemingly ordinary Pakistani lives, setting itself apart from the author’s other explicitly political works.
By Madhu S. Nair
Damodaran nodded positive but he didn’t mean it. He was in a hurry to escape from the suffocation of blind love.
By Abu Osama
Muslims need to understand that the solutions to worldly problems are rooted in worldly systems.
By Rajyeshwari Ghosh
A non-Bengali friend told me that Bengal’s intellectual identity has now reduced to wearing a loose-fitted pajama-punjabi, carrying a jhola side bag from shantiniketan.
By Niharika Tripathi
Erdogan appeals to a memory of Sultan Mehmed II and through him, fashions himself as the rightful restorer of Mehmed’s will and hence, the worthy ‘New Sultan’.
By Mitali Chakravarty
Pluck the leaves off the grass
and weep for what will not be.
By Gabriel Rosenstock
Of course, you could release him
With strict instructions:
Professor! Teach Jane Austen only
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