By Sadiq Zafar
Urban land became a commodity which was beyond the capacity of the poor people to afford, raising other related issues like degraded living conditions and emergence of slums, ghettos, and squatters.
Asides
By Umar Timol
Every time a Palestinian child dies, he bequeaths this light to his people, which entrenches in their lands, nourishes it, and unleashes sustenance for uprising and freedom.
By Anandita Pathak & Aditya Ranjan Pathak
The Covid-19 situation in the country last year which took a critical turn fuelled the rise in cases of racism against the Northeastern population in the other metro cities of India where they migrate for higher education or work.
By Devraj Singh Kalsi
Just as we have one good reason to remember her. We became better human beings because of her.
By Aishwarya Bhuta
Maybe it is time for Indian citizenry to bang pots and pans again, albeit in protest like the Brazilians against the insufficient policy responses and inability to prevent the catastrophe.
By Evgeny A. Khvalkov
Alrond got ready for the trip and thought about going to Adtiarn to the court of King Taravon. He, people say, pays the brave and clever nobles handsomely. And Alrond went to the city of Adtiarn.
By Nayyar Hilal
In the Dal water has turned to blood –
I tried to write with it but
my hands are trapped in barbed wires.
By Sourya Chowdhury
Tamhane is only two films old but is already in the process of mastering a distinct mode of storytelling, auteur-like in his predisposition for long, lingering shots, naturalism and loving portrayal of the mundane.
By Jindagi Kumari
In reading The Last Queen, one feels treated as a companion and confidante of the uninhibited and vulnerable protagonist who shares her life, decisions, desires, flaws, in a voice that is as spontaneous as it is majestic.
By Haritha T Chandran
They either fuck or fight and sometimes fuck and fight. There is no in-between.
By Paromita Patranobish
In her assessment, cancer is a site of precarity at once individual and collective, the sources of which are at once epidemiological and environmental, raising an ethical demand in the light of which intersectional struggles and solidarities might be sought.
By Sunil Sharma
We are the fodder, the 99 percenters, for the one percenters of the world – chants the massive crowds in the old public squares, the world over.
By Ashley Tellis
I wanted to trace the veins on your forearms,
lick your pallid skin, hear your blood gurgling
through the green trees across your chest, barely covered
by that tight shirt, its buttons bursting.
By Thallapelli Praveen
Treating the Self and Fellow Being in an equal respect is ethical praxis. This equal respect is missing in Etala.
By Umar Timol
I believe that the Palestinian body has become a metaphor for the bodies of the powerless all over the world. The destruction of our bodies is what is awaiting all of us, if we don’t do anything about it.
By Panchali Ray
While feminists have long been critiquing the institution of marriage, it took a global pandemic to bring out the unequal gendered division of labour, care work and violence entrenched within the family.
By Nishi Pulugurtha
What comes out clearly through the poems in the volume is a keen eye, of being able to look beyond the obvious, of reaching out into the known and the unknown.
By Quratulain Qureshi
So, while we pray for your olives of Filastin to flourish,
We ask you to pray for the olive of Kasheer to wither.
By Pooja Lakshman Rao
Mankind’s fundamental questions have always been “Who are we? Why are we here?” But looking at history, can we derive a strategy to conquer the planet like the first humans did?
