Let’s start with rudimentary questions and basic assumptions. What is love? What does it have to do with anything that Kindle as a magazine may represent? It is not politico-cultural or eco-political or any of those rude-sounding hyphenated words that push
“To keep alive, within oneself: is this the best sign of fidelity?” —Jacques Derrida, ‘The Deaths of Roland Barthes’ in The Work of Mourning At my study table, a note, a text, a philosophy of life that has been,
On New Year’s Eve, the globalised custom dictates that we make some good resolutions. Believe me, though, in most cases such resolutions turn out to be like toilet paper—the slightest touch of water dilutes them irreversibly. Instead, I think it
Roast Chicken Contemplating the afterlife of birds, I empty the carcass. My wife offers rosemary sprigs, which I stuff into the cavity with whole garlic cloves and seared lemon halves, and then I compact it by tucking the wings
Shakuntala Spellcheck: In Three Movements and one afterthought Movement 1 Miss Shakuntala. Wife of King Dushyant Daughter of sage Vishwamitra and apsara Menaka Left in the forest. Pushed by Durbasha. Fickle fate. Dancing with death. The diseased amnesia. The insistent
It’s now almost five degrees here, cold for me, perhaps not for you: except the afternoons, which are usually quite warm with so much sunlight that it feels like the skin is burning. Sometimes I forget that it is not
As an expression of human behaviour that is simultaneously an exercise in physical agency and a manifestation of the metaphysical, dance may be interpreted as a socio-cultural and political gesture which locates itself in complex and ever-changing semiotic systems. As
Read an extract from Kalkatta, or click here for an interview with Kunal Basu. Kunal Basu’s Kalkatta is a kind of messed up, sour Cinderella story. Jamshed arrives in Calcutta as a young boy with this family of caricatures, a
Read an extract from Kalkatta, or click here for Devjani Bodepudi’s review. Kalkatta is about people facing the consequences of the India-Bangladesh partition. Jamshed’s family are refugees in a ‘Kalkatta’ rarely seen or brought to light. How has the setting of
Read Devjani Bodepudi’s review of Kalkatta, or click here for an interview with Kunal Basu. That was the real beginning of my new life, going from someone who did casual jobs to someone who did it daily, getting up in