By Neera Kashyap
In ‘Quarterlife’, Devika Rege traces several issues to their roots: the search for identities and values in contemporary living and the shocks these unleash; the origins of religious and political intertwining; the causes of family ruptures and rapprochement; the subliminal feelings of Dalits and half-castes; of educated and semi-literate minorities; of impassioned nationalists; of gays with their struggles of coming out in the open.
By Farnaz Fatima
Gauhar Jaan, a trailblazer in Indian classical music, faced the double burden of being a woman and a ‘tawaif’, resulting in her story often being marginalised or omitted from our historical narratives.
By Mohammad Asim Siddiqui
Thoughtfully titled, Zeyad Masroor Khan’s coming of age memoir ‘City on Fire: A Boyhood in Aligarh’, the word fire in the title of the book captures the riot-prone history of Aligarh and the volatile nature of peace that exists in the town.
By Nishi Pulugurtha
Gopal Lahiri’s ‘Crossing the Shoreline’ reveals a mature poet working on his craft and fashioning new forms in ways that only a prolific poet can.
By Malavika S. Udayan
The shutting down of the 5-year Integrated Master’s programme at IIT Madras is symbolic of the impoverished state of humanities education in the country.
By Rimli Bhattacharya
‘Mumbai Diaries’ captures the Mumbai I had faced on that fateful day.
By Panchami Manjunatha
The very fact that people who support or call for the simple recognition of Palestinian right to dignity and freedom are constantly silenced by being called Hamas supporters lays bare the power of the narrative written by those who have amassed unaccountable power.
By Umar Timol
Israel is currently engaged in what is described as a genocide, right before our eyes. This act of annihilation is happening in real-time, and we are witnessing the meticulous deployment of violence.
By Somudranil Sarkar
Wives is a unique collection. Ankit Raj Ojha has curated and edited this wonderful collection with such finesse that it demands special attention.
By Shahid Jamal
While the use of violence by Hamas cannot be condoned, it is equally imperative to acknowledge that Hamas is a product of the Israeli occupation of Palestine.
By Ashish Dwivedi
V. Shantaram’s ‘Duniya Na Mane’ is just another instance of this extraordinary juxtaposition of social criticisms and timelessness.
By Kiran Balyan and Shafiq Ahmed
the NCRB report is an important document not only for the government and police departments but also for the citizens of the country to come face to face with the reality of the country we live in.
By Nishi Pulugurtha
Pushan Kripalani’s Goldfish running in a lone multiplex in Kolkata is a story of relationships, at whose centre is dementia.
By Sonal
Even though Milan Kundera’s body of work is definitely not History 101, the historian in me revelled in Kundera’s wisdom to delve deeper into the philosophy of memory and history.
By Ananya Dutta Gupta
What appears to have shocked society most about the devastatingly gruesome death of Swapnadeep Kundu is the stark anomaly between the perpetrators’ scholastic merit and their perverseness of conduct.
By Aditi Ajay Pophare
In ‘Terror Trials: Life and Law in Delhi’s Courts’, Mayur Suresh, through on-field encounters with terror trials in Delhi courts, brings out the intimate relationship between the law, police, and those in conflict with the law.
By Saukarya Samad
The development of the oral tradition of storytelling in medieval Bengal marked the assimilation of non-Aryan local Hindu deities into the Vedic pantheon of gods.
By Priyanshi Kothari
Mahesh Rangarajan’s Nature and Nation is a multidisciplinary inquiry dealing with the various strands of nation-building and its effect on ecology.
By Aadithya J Nair
The Manipur clashes are not just a calamity but a clear writing on the wall of the things that can unfold in societies that house diverse communities if due attention is not paid to the anti-social narrative that is spread to the common people.
By Arshad Azmi
We, as a democratic society, must denounce rapes and regard it as a crime against humanity, just the way it was done during the Nirbhaya rape case.
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