In 2010, Verso published a new edition of John Berger’s 1975 book A Seventh Man. Here’s the first sentence of Berger’s introduction to the re-issue: “It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.”
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
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
In this era of ‘Alternative Facts’, more than ever, the truth really matters, not only as a matter of “speaking truth to power” the way many ordinary people and journalists alike are doing in order to resist the likes of
hen talking about the radicalisation of religion and setting the ball in motion, we tend to think about the fraternity of Islam in particular. Ergo, people form different opinions about what the religion actually might or might not preach and
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