In course of my work, I had to inaugurate a beauty pageant of transwomen from the north-eastern states of India just a few years ago. An array of emotions fought inside as I lit the inaugural lamp along with the
First things first. Who was Ratan Bai? Indeed, little is known about Ratan Bai excepting that she is an actor from the 1930s, who played the female lead in films like Yahoodi ki Ladki (Dir. Aga Hashar, 1933) and Karwan-E-Hayat (Dir.
Last night, the sound of my own heartbeat woke me up. It beat so loudly, so certainly, as if it would continue to beat forever. I lay there listening to it for a while, trying to understand why and how
Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Chutzpah had American legislators on their toes on 3 March when he came to the corporate office called Congress to lash out at the nuclear deal being negotiated with Ay-ran. The deal would all ‘but guarantee’
Heard that Mallu joke yesterday? You must have. It’s an old one, about how there was a chetta on the moon manning a chai-kada when Neil Armstrong gingerly laid down his foot in his leap for mankind. It is an
“An audio tape surfaced.” Variants of this phrase, always in the passive voice, were repeated again and again in news reports covering the ongoing drama of the internal power struggle in the Aam Aadmi Party. The audio tape in question
Shilpa Joglekar is a dynamic person with artistic engagements in diverse areas. She believes her art and art projects are “aimed to involve an entire society, not just art enthusiasts”. Scale, materiality and a provocation towards dialogue—these are key features
Harsh Snehanshu reviews Raj Kamal Jha’s She Will Build Him A City, and asserts that despite its limitations, it heralds a new era of writing urban fiction. The allure of Delhi’s colourful history, flourishing flamboyance and glaring vices has long
Deepa Bhasthi takes a look at the freedom of expression in writing, the politics of the human body and what it takes to be sexually liberal in today’s times. How dare you insinuate that my body is worth just Rs
If you thought AIB was funny, read this… If you thought satire is over, read this… Even if you don’t read, read this…. Muhammad Tahir is lambasting his way through this hilarious piece about Modi, AIB and Kashmir. Well guys,