“Utopias are found on islands…” – Umberto Eco One may ask, if this was any way to put together an issue…and why not; I have asked this question many times to myself, without any convincing answers. Nevertheless, out of fragmented,
Have you visited the market of words? The words of the advertiser – full of lure, beauty, dreams and lies. The words owned by telecom companies – thousands of words on sale for as little as Rs 98 a month
If you have ever had a chance to sit on the banks of the Yellow River in China, you perhaps might be able to make some curious connection between the images in this issue and the text that accompanies it…or
Last night – 24th March 2013 PONDS – the setter of standards of beauty, and FEMINA the guidebook for the woman of substance, crowned one of our’s – Miss India 2013. Ponds Femina Miss India 2013. In 1969, Carol Hanisch
Judith Butler in one her most important works, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of identity, notes, “… that gender is a choice, or that gender is a role, or that gender is a construction that one puts on, as one
The list is updating itself constantly. Be it from the moving bus, be it the molestation of a Manipuri actress, be it the routine Dalit rapes that tumble out from Harayana….The unabated series of rapes only fuel temporary middle class
There was no longlist or shortlist. We did not think of any candidates. Obama and Malala, Psy and the late Steve Jobs were the favourites in several other nominee lists. The country had fallen to new lows. First the Rape,
Someone had said, if you look deeper within any subject, you would find mathematics. And that’s a thought that gives a profound sense of relief and peace… the idea of a universal language, of big explanations; of global emancipation and
The stories of bookstores, as special and delightful as they may seem, like most stories, are actually sad ones. Nevertheless, to quote from the X files motto: “The truth is out there”… in that immense forest of books… fragmentary, perhaps…
I dreamt of the goddess of democracy last night She was giving a sermon To around 540 people There were 5 absentees “Keep them accustomed to rote learning They will learn to believe and never to question” All participants cheered.