Soumabrata Chatterjee describes the Indo-Bangladesh relations, how it has developed over time and space and what the future looks like with the advent of the BJP-led government in India .. In 2014, Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj made it a point
Deepa Bhasthi visits the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2014 which is in its second edition and studies the artworks on display. From Anish Kapoor’s gravity-defying Descension to Marie Velardi’s 21st century world crafted from science fiction, she describes the awe-inspiring festival of
As Qafe proceeds into 2015, Paramita Banerjee stepped into the world of popular culture of the year gone by through advertisements and interrogates the ideas of gender and power relations … So – what’s popular culture? ‘Popular’ as per its
Azad Essa comments on the escalating violence in Nigeria in the light of the recent massacre by the group carrying forward the message of Boko Haram. Little is known about the girl, except that she was no more than 10-years
Crossing the street with my lover, some way off Flury’s, I see a man and a woman emerge from Moulin Rouge. The man wears a French cap and tweeds, and the woman, Dressed in a trench and pale stockings, Is
G. Singh describes the plight of rickshaw pullers in Kolkata in the face of the State government’s decision to replace the hand-pulled rickshaws with battery rickshaws…A vital part of history associated with Kolkata also comes to an end with this
I “We don’t really know what Ebola has done in the past, and we don’t know what it might do in the future.” —Richard Preston, The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (December, 1994).
Karthika Naïr brings to us five narrative strands which are summaries of some of the stories that composed choreographer Akram Khan’s multiple-award-winning dance solo, DESH … Mahaboub Khulna, 1971 They came again today. Our soldiers. Only, they are not our
Monidipa Mondal and William Dalrymple explore the intellectual and emotional allure of literature festivals at and home and abroad. I caught up with William Dalrymple, in the week before the first edition of the Jaipur Literature Festival at the Southbank