Indian publisher and feminist Urvashi Butalia co-founded India’s first feminist publishing house, ‘Kali for Women’ with Ritu Menon in 1984. Since 2003, she separately runs ‘Zubaan Books’ which tries to capture marginalized voices of women, apart from publishing academic
When the Technicolor world of music and machine took over the screen on a certain December evening, it took less than a minute for me to readily want to live in each scene that played before my eyes for the
The year is 2018. After a period of global warfare, the nation-state system has dissolved. In its place, six gigantic corporations – each with their own geographic territory – control the world. In order to forestall another world war, the
Longlisted for the Tata Literature Live First Book Award for fiction, Sharanya Manivannan’s The High Priestess Never Marries is her debut collection of short stories, alternately titled “Stories of Love and Consequence” and published by Harper Collins, India. Chiefly known
Ultimately if Dylan, who has been known to introduce himself as a “song and dance man”, wants to be recognised as a writer depends solely upon his discretion, says Barnamala Roy. “He is (not) going to the carnival tonight
On everyone’s lips was news of my death, but only that beloved couplet broken, on his: If there is a paradise on earth, it is this, it is this, it is this. ~Agha Shahid Ali, The Last Saffron None but
Goirick Brahmachari’s debut poetry volume, For the Love of Pork, is an inebriating journey from the misty Himalayan mountains of Assam and Meghalaya to the crisscrossing flyovers, malls, bars and by-lanes of insomniac Gurgaon and Delhi. This Kerouac-ian road trip
Amitabh Bachchan’s open letter to his granddaughters Navya and Aradhya on Teachers’ Day, penned in the context of his recently released film, Pink has received the limelight of the nation’s attention. As usual, the nation is divided into the politically
In his Television, Audiences and Cultural Studies, David Morley tries to look at television not as a model of infotainment but the act of viewing it. What he attempts to underline is that while every kind of televisual practice invokes
In the 21st century, Internet culture has transformed much of the world – and been criticised even more. Social media is considered vapid and ephemera by many, and criticised for dominating people’s lives with no positive impact whatsoever. Such views