The Border Was Never the Borderline
Amit Sengupta crosses many borders – physical and metaphysical – to find poetry in dark times of…
July, 2014
Healing The Wounds of 1971
1971 still torments Bangladesh… and some in Pakistan. Is there hope of healing? Powerful insights from…
You Think You Know Me?
Koli Mitra explores the issue of essentialism in how non-Muslims relate to Muslims in a world…
Music of the People
In a Pakistan special issue in 2010, we interviewed him for the first time. Since then,…
Reclaiming One’s Voice
Raza Rumi cuts through the high decibel terrorism rhetoric to voice some ground realities of Pakistan,…
The Crucible
Journalist, filmmaker and author Adrian Levy who has written extensively on the subcontinent, decodes for us,…
What’s taking their place?
A few short verses for where prose stops dead… “Drink wine and look at the…
Anamika: That Which Is Nameless
Does artistic expression actually grow in response to attempts at stifling it? Deepa Bhasthi comments on…
Pappu Sain and The Drumbeat of Heaven
A bhang drinking, hashish smoking, dhol playing sufi can teach us a lot about resisting the…
Pakistan, Bollywood Style
Three films about by Indians about Pakistan. (1) Nuanced, amusing… but ultimately self serving. (2) Earnest,…