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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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.
By Prithvijeet Sinha
Soaked in silences, The Lunchbox is uplifting modern cinema that stays true to its humanist heart and hardly loses touch with it. It bundles wit, personal discovery, practical wisdom and unrequited desires.
By Javid Majeed
As the pandemic continues, it is important to support children and adolescents facing bereavement and issues related to parental unemployment or loss of household income.
By Aafiya Siddiqui
Now I envy the lamenting pens
And pheonix tears of mourning eyes
For mine have dried
Turning the fissure of heart
into deep voids.
By Mohammed Mishad K
While Macbeth gives an opulence of linguistic vigour, Akira Kurosawa’s film is a landmark in cinematic visual brilliance.
By Madhu Singh
Whereas The Plague became a bestseller in Corona crisis across the globe with publishers rushing reprints, not much is known about Sartre’s Typhus French playscript which was published in 2007 having vanished from sight for almost sixty years.
By Somok Roy
Nepal could plausibly be an intimate other, thanks to its Hindu credentials – the difference could just be of a cartographic border, and not a pressing alterity in which the other is also a dangerous threat, the abnormal.
By Anindita Das
The departmental stores in Kolkata appeared ‘tiny and crowded’ in comparison to Walmart or Sam’s. All of a sudden the crowd that he had grown up around seemed ‘intimidating’.
By Anasuya Bhar
The horse, always hardworking, could have signified the struggling self of the artist as well. To Ghosh the horse is also an emblem of fantasy, those creatures of the imagination who he could always saddle with a pair of wings reminiscent of the fabled Pokkhiraaj or the Pegasus.
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