Yesterday afternoon, as the car swept round the highway, the green sea, shone mint-like at me, from the left window, then the right, and then again the left, till we had moved so far, that only tar sailed till the
Things don’t fit no matter how hard you split The tongue of calcified speech upon the rider’s beach The sun beams drift, shedding gold in bits Slowly, in a fleet, shy away into sleep Things don’t sleep, so full
That night like glad children we made a castle out of stories, Etched places in the carousel of dreams and ate idlis Three black dots in strobes of four, our car rode on and off Highways drenched with winter
It is customary that I must stretch my legs wide across the fields of night, and make empty furrows till dawn. You are not there. The flesh of dawn rouses the precipices of my fingers, I catch thumbprints of clouds
She called herself London On that day She fell from the sky Child of apple blossoms — Catman Cohen Regardless of queen and country Regardless of the throes of Scottish dissent Neanderthal spirits Drink the Thames to slush every
At 2 a.m. , 17th September, following the orders of the acting VC of Jadavpur University, protesting students were lathi-charged and brutally uprooted from outside his office. Several were arrested and some had to rushed to the hospital. Outsiders (read
Ankiya-Naats are one-act plays performed in Assam, India often depicting Lord Krishna in myriad forms and stories. Samudra Kajal Saikia explores its medieval roots, its dramaturgy and finally investigates it as an art form and performing practice … Bhaona, the
The inefficient applicability of Section 498A has given rise to the well-orchestrated illusion that most of the cases filed under it are false. The Qafeteer interrogates a recent judgment of the Supreme Court and reveals the working fissures between the
The subversion of Brahiminical systems of thought and representation will bring about a cultural revolution which will ultimately ‘Dalitise’ the spaces of engagement. Drishadwati Bargi explores … Urban spaces are continuously subject to movement of people from rural, semi-urban spaces,
Celebrating Anurag Kashyap’s 42nd birthday (September 10), here is our list of five of his best works. Pratiti Ganatra reports. Gangs of Wasseypur (2012) Rarely has a tale of revenge and vengeance been depicted with such raw emotion on Indian celluloid before.