By Namrata Pathak
Like Barthes, in Malhotra’s poems, too, we come across the lover’s inner monologue, in which the readers will find themselves anchored or at least recognize a speck of their personality or a part of their being.
Asides
By Mohammad Asim Siddiqui
All through the book, Satpathy argues how the very idea of nationalism, which contains many contradictions, is not only a result of some controversies but it also leads to many fresh controversies.
By Prabhavathy K
Marvel is not really a ‘universe’ but a very localised project, shaped by the practices and attitudes of the larger American film industry. This is typical of Hollywood that markets itself as a producer of global culture but is filled with odd loopholes of narrow vision.
By Shahid Jamal
It is shameful that in a country where everyone is celebrating Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav, a nine-year-old Dalit boy was beaten to death by his upper caste schoolteacher for drinking water from his pot.
By Arshad Azmi
“Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav” would have been more successful if it had focused on the prevention of rising religious fundamentalism, fanaticism, orthodoxy, and intolerance, which are bent on hollowing out the diversity of our peaceful, democratic, and tolerant society, instead of making citizens comply with the norms of displaying flags in or outside of residences.
By Dustin Pickering
Srividya Sivakumar and Paresh Tiwari’s anthology, The Shape of a Poem: The Red River Book of Contemporary Erotic Poetry, heartily admits through many of its poets, the erotic stimulates the imagination but is something that remains unfulfilled.
By Md. Firoj Ahmmed
Although The Revenge of the Non-vegetarian is not like Chatterjee’s ground-breaking debut novel English, August, he certainly raises some grave religious and political questions that have beset contemporary India.
By Gautam Bisht
But how could this be, that two communities sharing the same socio-political reality develop their own meanings of the word secular?
By Amulya Anita Gurumurthy
Perumal Murugan places the biographies of the characters in their historical context; assesses the personal against the political and the individual in light of the structural. While his characters operate within the confining cartography of the village, they are complex and agentic, often negotiating systemic oppression.
By Leya Mathew
What Ajay Raina has compiled and presented is but a part of Tikoo’s efforts. The work of activism is long and dreary; some of the ordeals of life under siege can be glimpsed through what Raina chronicles in ‘Mout`e Rang’.
By Chaitali Sengupta
Santosh Bakaya’s ‘Runcible Spoons and Peagreen Boats’ is a fascinating memoir in the poetic form where the poet recounts the pivotal moments in a way that either catches your heart or makes you stop and look back at your own life and reflect.
By Umar Timol
During a trip to Trivandrum, India, in 2019, a city which greatly resembles Port-Louis, the capital of Mauritius, I visited her grave which is found at the Palayam Jumah Masjid, a mosque, accompanied by my Indian poet friend, Chandramohan.
By Sudeep Ghosh
Saikat Majumdar’s ‘The Middle Finger’ is a tender tapestry of empathy, where sensory energy transforms into swirling waves of subtle energy.
By Sabreen Ahmed
The everyday wonderland concocted through a maze of measured words is the crux of Goswami’s poetic vision of peaceful contentment in concordance with the acceptance of the vital signs of living.
By Anshif Ali
David Diop’s enthralling novel ‘At Night All Blood Is Black’ undermines the stereotypes of African savagery and exposes the barbarity of European colonial officers in particular and of war in general.
By Aindrila Chakraborty
While being ethnically and culturally Tamil includes them in the larger Tamil society of Pondicherry, their French citizenship contests this inclusion.
By Sutapa Basu
For ages, I have dreamt of translating Thukurmar Jhuli into English. My goal was to break the language barrier and take my favourite childhood stories to a wider, global audience who could enjoy them in English.
By Rochelle Potkar
The poems in Oindri Sengupta’s ‘After the Fall of a Cloud’ seem to drift through devastation, levitating to new hinging of metaphysical abandon.
By Abdullah Kazmi
And if at all the civil society demands change, these political strongmen fall into their dangerous shadow archetype, unleashing chaos and violence on the whole community.
By Sriti Ganguly
In Teaching to Transgress, hooks draws on her experiences, first as a student and then as an educator, and beautifully lays out how learning can be liberating and revolutionary.
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