Poetry
R Raj Rao

Haikus

  Ass Like Don Quixote He rides an ass and thinks he’s On a stallion. Pandava Five Pandava bums Screwing seven days a week Five Pandava bums.   Bombay Fumes shit pav bhaji Skyscrapers local trains rats Amitabh Bachchan.  

Poetry
Sudeep Sen

Four Watercolours

       for Alan Ross & Jane Rye RAILWAY STATION, BOMBAY   The coolie’s red jacket partially hides his blackened bones,   ones that show their fate under white wrappings of dhoti and turban.   He leap-frogs at you with

Poetry
Robert Okaji

Roast Chicken

  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

Cinema
Ajachi Chakrabarti

After Sunrise

  Tamasha Director: Imtiaz Ali Starring: Ranbir Kapoor, Deepika Padukone, Piyush Mishra, Javed Sheikh Rating: 2.5/5   Imtiaz Ali’s Tamasha lays its cards on the table quite early on, in the opening sequence itself. The film begins with a Brechtian

Politics & Society
Saswat Pattanayak

Eurocentrism as Terrorism

Let’s not romanticise terrorism. Terrorists blew up Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Terrorists organised the White Army to kill over three million Russians. Terrorists funded the Nazis and the Fascists, killing nearly 12 million Jews and Communists. Terrorists killed nearly three million Koreans

Politics & Society
Muhammad Tahir

Herded Through the Great Whine

In the run-up to Modi’s rally in Srinagar on 7 November, Kashmiri social media was speculating how low Mufti Syed would stoop to appease his big brother Modi. Lo and behold, he didn’t so much stoop low as crawl like

Politics & Society
Arun Maheshwari

भाजपा की अन्तर्कलह के दिलचस्प संकेत

भाजपा लंबे अर्से से संसदीय जनतंत्र के ढांचे में संविधान-सम्मत ढंग से सत्ता की एक प्रतिद्वंद्वी पार्टी के रूप में बनी हुई है, और आरएसएस इस ढांचे के बाहर का गोपनीय सत्ता-केंद्र है। इन दोनों के बीच पिछले लगभग 64

Interviews
Sayan Bhattacharya

‘Our battles have to be fought on multiple fronts’

To begin with, why did you choose this specific moment to give up the National Award, given that ever since this government has come to power, and of course even earlier, right-wing atrocities have been on an upsurge? It is

And Quiet Flows The Luit
Debashree Dattaray

The Philanthropologist

“What makes a man change his nationality, abjure civilisation and, in the upshot, become a blend of Schweitzer in Africa and Gauguin in Tahiti?“ This romanticised, problematic question about Verrier Elwin (29 August 1902- 22 February 1964) was posed by

Poetry
Advait Ubhayakar

Eating Steak in the Time of Modi

  Eating Steak in the Time of Modi “Cow and its Progeny: In view of the contribution of cow and its progeny to agriculture, socio-economic and cultural life of our country, the Department of Animal Husbandry will be suitably strengthened