The tragopan last week had heard The rumour from another bird -Most probably a quail or sparrow: Such birds have gossip in their marrow- That man had hatched a crazy scheme To mar their land and dam their stream, To
In his Television, Audiences and Cultural Studies, David Morley tries to look at television not as a model of infotainment but the act of viewing it. What he attempts to underline is that while every kind of televisual practice invokes
In the 21st century, Internet culture has transformed much of the world – and been criticised even more. Social media is considered vapid and ephemera by many, and criticised for dominating people’s lives with no positive impact whatsoever. Such views
With Sakshi Malik winning the bronze medal for women’s free-style wrestling and P.V. Sindhu bagging the silver for women’s badminton, India finally arrived at its long-awaited victorious closure in the 2016 Rio Olympics. Quite predictably, the exemplary achievements of
mist and white flowers I sip from your sleep, before the moon disappears — a stoned, dead Summer. Trucks snail the road wearily cows chew a few suns — river oh river I have tried to escape, but memory
Some time back, as the month of July came to a close, two politicians from Tamil Nadu got into a fight at the Delhi airport. They were waiting to board their flight back to their home state, and their war
Kashmir is lexically rich. It is the silicon valley of phrase-innovations. You can publish a separate Oxford Kashmir Dictionary, which will have unique words generated in and about Kashmir. Here I present few samples for you: Pelleted: 1
August 15, 2016: This day, this year, a new history is beginning to take shape. A history, which is inclusive. An alternate history, whose roots are too deep to be ignored, and yet they are often cropped and pruned.
In his first solo exhibition in India, titled Mastery of Language Affords Remarkable Power, held at The Experimenter Gallery, Kolkata, Samson Young from Hong Kong, explores the notions of margins and centres in paper works, videos and a durational performance.
The first time I chanced upon the Prisma watermark on an acquaintance’s display photo on Facebook I was far from impressed, dismissing it as another of those fads doing the rounds on social media that redoes one’s photo in sketch