The Loom Speaks
Oh, our Mother, the Earth, Oh, our Father, the Sky, Your children are we, and with…
2015
Presidential Predicaments
On 28 August, the New Delhi Municipal Council announced it was changing the name of Aurangzeb…
Death of an Intellectual
This was bound to happen and this will only get worse. A spectre is yet again…
डाभोलकर, पानसारे और अब कलबुर्गी
कन्नड़ लेखक एम. एम. कलबुर्गी की हत्या के प्रतिवाद में हिंदी के रचनाकार उदय प्रकाश ने…
Subversive Verses
Dr Kalburgi and MM Basheer are only the latest in a long line of intellectuals who…
Harmless Pens. Harmful Pens.
I was gifted a Pelikan fountain pen some time ago, a beloved gift from someone beloved….
The Revolution Will Not Be Contextualised
Case 1: I was attending a public talk a few weeks ago at the India International…
Beautiful Incoherence
Two Years, Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights Salman Rushdie Random House 304 pp | Rs…
Presumptions of Purity
Presumptions of Purity Come to bed. Switch off the light. Leave the music be, so…
My Mother’s Earrings
When you’ve been locked up in an unknown dingy cold room for a time, you realise…