Since 2016, Kanhaiya Kumar has become the face of #StandWithJNU movement after he was arrested on the charges of sedition and committing ‘anti-nationalist’ activities. A student activist hailing from the Begusarai district in Bihar, the former President of Jawaharlal Nehru
Rana Ayyub calls herself an independent journalist. She is the author of the non-fiction work ‘Gujarat Files’. Previously, she had been with Tehelka and her investigative journalism has sent people from the upper echelons of bureaucracy behind bars. ‘Gujarat Files’
Vijay Prashad’s No Free Left – The Futures of Indian Communism is a history of the Indian Left movement, a speculative self-critique and a hope for a future where the Left’s vibrant socio-economic discourse remains key to bringing a real
If culture is a way of life, as Raymond Williams wrote, then the image of realism and fantasy is all about the Ways of Seeing, said John Berger. Seeing is both believing, not believing, creating a false construct, distorting the
When the intrepid editor of a relatively small poetry publishing outfit called Copper Coin read a handful of poems by John Berger (1926-2017), little did he know his thirst, instead of being quenched, would increase. So much so that Berger
Wikipedia mentions you as a person who is popularly known as the ‘Great Bong’. And well, we see that your Twitter handle is of the same moniker. Tell us what does it mean to you? For me, the ‘Bongness’ essentially
Adjudged the Grand Poetry Slam Champion of the Nuyorican Poets Café in 1990 (though he refuses to call himself a ‘performance poet’), Paul Beatty has moved on from writing poetry to fiction and non-fiction- The White Boy Shuffle (1996), Tuff
Jerry Pinto is the author of the autobiographical novel Em and the Big Hoom and the non-fiction work A Book of Light. He has also written novels for children and in most of his life he has dealt with
What is it to be human? While it is different from the question of what it is to be humane, it’s scopes are broader having occupied a wide spectrum of intellectuals- from the medicine practitioners, the biologists, the psychoanalysts
This month, Kindle Magazine takes a look at this supposed link between Islam and Terrorism. Recent terror attacks have once again opened a can of worms, rearing their ugly heads in every conversation, most, eager to paint radical and