By Annapurna Palit
The Rainbow is a recurrent metaphor in this collection and colour overrides Chakraborty’s poetic vision. Death, violence, loneliness, love and hope are represented by images of colour that glide slickly through the verses.
Asides
By Prithvijeet Sinha
Teevra Madhyam is ultimately about how women are often expected to cast themselves in a mould similar to the men in their lives, leading them to give up their innate vocations.
By Afsana Siddiqui
Certainly, I don’t want to rant about other religions or degrade them, but as a woman, I must ask: who are you to tell us what we should wear and what we shouldn’t?
By B. Gopal Rao
Reading Jhilam’s poetry is an aesthetically satisfying experience since it is the product of a highly imaginative mind and sensitive soul.
By Mujeeb Jaihoon
Imposition of State-led top-down approach will hurt the pace of internal reforms of Muslim community. Reforms should be the outcome of a community-led process.
By Malashri Lal
Shailja Chandra internationalizes Gulzar through this exchange from Australia and also by linking the poet’s philosophy and quest with a range of other writers.
By Malavika
In other words, these were casteist morals, perpetuating the horrendous, terrorising, and long-run historical violence of caste-based inequality.
By Nishi Pulugurtha
The poems in The Fern-Gatherer’s Association bring together ideas, images, associations, endowing the known and familiar with a dreaminess that fills the senses.
By Anirban Mukherjee
The workforce with higher education, however, decided to stay out of the workforce rather than accepting a low wage. This mechanism, if in place, will have critical policy implications.
By Sahil Bansal
Through projects like this the aim is to impose the one-fits-all solution in the name of making India “world-class.” This, I would say, is nothing but the colonised mind breeding a neo-colonialism of its own
By Haim Shweky
Woke Racism is just such a tablet. And John McWhorter is its prophet.
By Jyotsna Dwivedi
The woman is using a ‘body language’ to indulge in the physical play while being in the process of ageing. The notions of ageing bring with it an urge to escape from visible signs and changes that appear in the body and at the same time there is an attempt to suppress desire and sexual needs.
By Uzma Faiz
Abba has lost much of his hearing capability and prefers silence. The only thing that brings him out of this vow of silence is Urdu.
By Sanyogita Singh
Both ‘sulli’ and ‘bulli bai’ are Islamophobic slurs used for Indian Muslim women. Such largescale attacks are not aimed at settling individual personal scores, another phenomenon rampant on social media, but to systematically demean a particular religious group.
By Prithvijeet Sinha
Maati Maanas actually integrates the art of pottery and sculpture to make it a collective act, an iconography, a visual representation.
By Gopal Lahiri
Kavita Ezikiel’s latest poetry collection Light of the Sabbath stands out for its sheer promise, clarity and startling originality that lingers with you for a longer period. We feel a powerful sense of connection in the end.
By Fahad Hashmi
Reading Faruqi has always given me an impression that a certain form of decolonisation of the Urdu adab is at play.
By Nishi Pulugurtha
The introduction to this ambitious volume defines androgyny and lays out the way it has been figured and used in various disciplines, tracing the history of its usage and use in the animal world, in religion, in literature and in life thereby laying a groundwork for the essays that follow.
By Vidhya Iyer
In essence, minimalism is something that helps you realize how little you need in life to be effective and happy. The rest indeed is clutter!
By Subhayu Bhattacharjee
Merkel’s yielding place to Scholz therefore represents a cementing of the roots of civic nationalism and practical strategies achieved through a collaboration between the ‘centre-left’ and the ‘centre-right’.
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