On everyone’s lips was news of my death, but only that beloved couplet broken, on his: If there is a paradise on earth, it is this, it is this, it is this. ~Agha Shahid Ali, The Last Saffron None but
I The Day of Ashura, 2010 Woman 1: I followed her. A frail woman in a cheap synthetic sari, covered in a machine-embroidered black chador. ‘Come, I will show you the way to the imambara’ ,she said. I seemed a
The mainstream media has transformed somehow from being the appendage of the nationalist state to acting as the face of the nation. The burgeoning of violent exclusionary nationalism in the mainstream media can be witnessed on these famous talk shows
Pencil-Shaded Phirans The graphite that paints you against the dead pianist’s fingers of winter poplars Comes from the same pencil that etches the geographic boundary you stand on – When the river is swollen from the tears of the
Delhi is a city of extremes. Be it the weather, lifestyle or emotions – everything is found in contrasts. I have been living a moderate life in this city for the last five years. A close examination of the daily
Goirick Brahmachari’s debut poetry volume, For the Love of Pork, is an inebriating journey from the misty Himalayan mountains of Assam and Meghalaya to the crisscrossing flyovers, malls, bars and by-lanes of insomniac Gurgaon and Delhi. This Kerouac-ian road trip
University spaces are generally unlike any other kind of space functioning around and through us embedded in it. I am not saying that they are better spaces as certain researchers and students claim them to be but, that they work
Amitabh Bachchan’s open letter to his granddaughters Navya and Aradhya on Teachers’ Day, penned in the context of his recently released film, Pink has received the limelight of the nation’s attention. As usual, the nation is divided into the politically
With just about few weeks to go for the American presidential elections, both the Democrat and Republican candidates seem to be running up against a thorny wall, shifting positions and changing goal-posts, fudging on facts and objectivity, rewriting their
Yamuna is not a well-known river in the West. It is not as wide as the Amazon, nor is it as long as the Nile; even amongst Indian rivers it is outclassed in fame by both the Indus, the subcontinent’s longest