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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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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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’.
By Syed Aamir Sharief Qadri
The people here are not authorized to talk loud
They usually talk in hints, signs and gestures.
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.
By Mitali Chakravarty
Can a land be unfound?
Can History be unwound?
Can Time be redeemed?
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.
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.
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.
By Sonnet Mondal
The city leans over the Yamuna
to clean its wounds.
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.
By Anjali V Raj
Those who fill their conscience with the fake act of selflessness by saving nature and those who are hesitant to care for the betterment of others, it is important to realize that neither we are selfless nor considerate of other life forms.
By Priyanka Yadav
Guddo is every young girl I see in our society today. Aspiring but always underestimated. Free but overprotected.
By Sneha Yadav
In times of the pandemic, Nepal exerting its claims on Indian Territory can be a reflection of Nepal’s failure in combating the Covid-19 situation on ground.
By Nishi Pulugurtha
There is a sense of despondency in many of the stories, of deafening defeat that shatters and a faint flicker of hope that glimmers and fades. Modestly priced and well mounted, the volume makes for a breezy reading.
By Mehreen Ahmed
Diachronically, the term Hindu alluded to nationhood, a political terminology, which had nothing to do with the Hindu religion as such.
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