By Mitali Chakravarty
The ‘women in mini skirts’ who resided in Kabul were a minority.
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By Nishi Pulugurtha
Usha Akella’s volume is a wonderful addition to the oeuvre of feminist poetry by a major poet of the diaspora.
By Anjali V Raj
Similar to Masurkar’s Newton, Sherni is also quite distinct from general Bollywood movies. The movie is evenly placid and maintains hilarity without losing the serious vigour of the story.
By Mohammad Asim Siddiqui
At a time when the University Grants Commission’s new curriculum of history is receiving a lot of flak for ignoring the contribution of Mughals to Indian society and culture, the value of this book certainly cannot be overestimated.
By Dustin Pickering
Sanjeev Sethi’s verse is tedious and tricky for the novice reader but delightful for contemporary readers who enjoy challenging poetry.
By Basudhara Roy
Much as one may endorse the idea of the androgynous creative mind, a world as nuanced with women’s thoughts and feelings as Ambai conjures in her stories, would have been challenging for a male translator to mirror with as much felicity and power as Prasad has done.
By Devraj Singh Kalsi
With evolving tastes and new aesthetic sensibilities, the era of Muslim social dramas is unlikely to get a fresh lease of life but a well-made Muslim social drama may be accepted by the young audiences in India.
By Sahil Bansal
There are umpteen vantage points to approach a Geddesian idea of the city and with every new vantage point one is bound to be amazed by the futuristic nature of Geddes.
By Abhiraj Singh
That Pegasus has been put to good use in catching criminals and preventing crime is believable; that only Pegasus, and not any other less intrusive tech, can do this work is either just lazy thinking or an unwillingness to innovate.
By Anidrita Saikia
For me, reading Neruda is a project rooted with the coldness of analytical observation: gone are the days when I mooned over the tenderness of his verses.
By Gabriel Rosenstock
Prime Minister Modi,
Do you really believe
That Fr. Stan wished to assassinate you?
By Chanda Rani and Harsh Kumar
Live-in relationship may be ‘immoral’ in the eyes of Indian society, but it is not illegal in the eyes of law.
By Arpan Malkhandi
Unsurprisingly, it is an encounter with a farmer that helped shape my research pathway.
By Nishi Pulugurtha
Appagaru and Amma have moved on to another world. It has been years since I visited Nayakampalli but this place with all its associations remain.
By Gopal Lahiri
Basudhara Roy’s ‘Stitching a Home’ is no doubt an important collection of poems, one to applaud for its beautiful craft, its display of skill and its light formed of longing.
By Arman Kazmi
Mubarat conveys a sense that dissolution of marriage should be based on the same principle as its annulment, that is realising the importance of giving equal weightage to consent of both the partners.
By Hindol Chakraborty
Although ghazal is chiefly associated with Urdu, it can embrace any language as it concentrates more on the construction, not the language.
By Prithvijeet Sinha
A man of Mr. Vanraj Bhatia’s calibre embodied multiple worlds and with his music, collective filmography available on YouTube and streaming services, it’s time we gave this musical pioneer his due.
By Atreyee Majumder
I found that Lauren Berlant’s diagnosis of ‘cruel optimism’ lay as a tragedy of triumph, located as it was in the heart of capital’s wins. America.
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