कन्नड़ लेखक एम. एम. कलबुर्गी की हत्या के प्रतिवाद में हिंदी के रचनाकार उदय प्रकाश ने अपना साहित्य अकादमी का पुरस्कार लौटा देने की घोषणा की है। इस घोषणा के चंद दिनों बाद ही उदय प्रकाश कोलकाता आए थे। इस
Dr Kalburgi and MM Basheer are only the latest in a long line of intellectuals who have been targeted by “fringe elements” for expressing views that challenge orthodoxy. This month’s issue of Kindle Magazine seeks to understand what it means
I was gifted a Pelikan fountain pen some time ago, a beloved gift from someone beloved. It is yellow, like sunshine. I need to fix ink cartridges into it, a relief, for I get the joy of writing with a
Case 1: I was attending a public talk a few weeks ago at the India International Centre in Delhi, when I noticed something extremely curious. The talk was supposed to discuss the future of the humanities, both as a discipline
Two Years, Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights Salman Rushdie Random House 304 pp | Rs 599 Early on in Salman Rushdie’s latest novel, there is a passing mention of the Arabic philosophical treatise The Incoherence of the Incoherence.
Presumptions of Purity Come to bed. Switch off the light. Leave the music be, so we might Fill with darkness, and unwanted speech Spaces otherwise silent. Out of reach. Darkness enhances the music’s sound, Drowns your breaths, and the profound, Feeling
When you’ve been locked up in an unknown dingy cold room for a time, you realise that the difference between days and nights doesn’t mean much anymore. You don’t notice how the night swallows the bright day and how the
A busy street in Phnom Penh Our bus from Siem Reap reached Phnom Penh by dusk. The seven-hour bus ride, cutting across the Cambodian countryside of green paddy fields, marshy rivers, and hamlets of bamboo huts, brought us into the midst
After my car broke down last night just outside the city, I walked into this strange lone building looking for some help. The building was empty, only a big room painted red was filled with men, only men—they were beautiful,
Last month, we learnt from highly placed sources that the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Mufti Sayeed was undergoing hallucinatory experiences; his advanced age of 79 summers taking a toll on his old mind and bladder made him see