In the spirit of magic realism here is Devjani Bodepudi’s short story .. I walk into the room and the air is crisp. It’s not the air of inside. I see it then, the open window. It explains the cold,
Thomas Crowley compares Modi’s ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’ and Hero MotoCorp’s ‘Manufacturing Happiness’ to the extent of politicising their supposed environmentally beneficial endeavours in order to reveal a neo-liberal mindset … It is perhaps no coincidence that Narendra Modi’s ‘Swachh Bharat
Soumabrata Chatterjee talks about the Brazilian educationist and philosopher Paulo Freire, his ideas on education which have revolutionised Latin America and how they can still inspire us to be better students and better teachers… We remember the film Karate Kid,
Geraldine Rose recounts her days in Nicaragua, January, 1988 and unfolds the revolution which can be “the threat of a good example” to the US. “It is normal for the state to regard the domestic population as a major enemy, who
I have a thousand faces Some I paint, some I mark and others I burn… If a face thinks he is better than the next one He can whisper it in my deaf right ear Didn’t you know the left
…we who become the emissaries of all the purloined letters which at least for a time remain in sufferance. (“Seminar on [Edgar Allan Poe’s]‘The Purloined Letter’,” Jacques Lacan). Initially
Idris Bhat demonstrates why the upcoming assembly elections in Kashmir are a political irony in the face of the history of deceit and brutality (on the part of the ruling authorities) that is etched in the psyche of almost every
In this edition of ‘Qafe’ Paramita Banerjee interrogates certain aspects of urban living in India especially its crime density (relating to women and nature of crime) and reveals the discrepancies in the steady growth of urbanisation … The hullabaloo about Clean
Monidipa Mondal pens a psychological tale exploring the underlying fissures of a family .. The boy always writes about his mother. It eats away at Rudrani’s heart as she fidgets around the house, counting the hours for Anjan to come
A photowalk through Pete chronicling the Karaga festival …by Vivek Muthuramalingam…. The lasting impression that lingers in my mind after having witnessed one of Bangalore’s oldest and biggest festivals is strangely not that of visual nature. It is of a sustained