The uprising in Kashmir triggered by the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani on July 8 entered into its fifth month last Tuesday. In the past 125 days, 96 people have been killed and 15,000 injured- of whom,
Longlisted for the Tata Literature Live First Book Award for fiction, Sharanya Manivannan’s The High Priestess Never Marries is her debut collection of short stories, alternately titled “Stories of Love and Consequence” and published by Harper Collins, India. Chiefly known
Wednesday morning, I made a frantic phone call to my mother in India with the kind of desperation that I normally reserve for medical emergencies. Donald Trump, an egocentric millionaire from New York, my home, had been named the President
The shock and clamour surrounding Donald Trump’s ascension to power is entirely unwarranted. The sentimental protests, tearful mournings and fearful disbelief about how to make sense of Trump are self-serving exaggerations. Self-serving, because taking such positions merely distinguishes us from
November 8 will mark a day of reckoning, if not redemption, for the United States of America (USA). Till then, every day is loaded with suspense and disbelief, and if my reporter’s instinct and objective assessment is even remotely right,
Why is Indian nationalism still an unsettled phenomenon? This question keeps coming up quite often. The rubric of nationalism, at least in India is not a self-sufficient category, more eloquently; it is a political sentiment that draws its ‘life and
To July In late July, The half-sketched city Dissolves in smog In dimming shades. * Some stoppered essences Now drip on the damp Foam seat by the window. * Its cheap black leather Rich with your scent. * That
Words are of essence here. Precisely because time is of essence here. While this article is being written, the powers that be are vehemently changing the political topography of the country. Nationalistic arrogance hides the secret alliances seeking to perpetrate
Ultimately if Dylan, who has been known to introduce himself as a “song and dance man”, wants to be recognised as a writer depends solely upon his discretion, says Barnamala Roy. “He is (not) going to the carnival tonight
It was a few days ago when the newspaper Kashmir Reader, for which I work as a reporter, was banned by the government. On Friday at around 6 pm, I had collected all the necessary details for a story I