Gender and Caste Hierarchy in Colonial Bengal. Inter-caste Interventions of Ideal Womanhood
Deboshruti Roychowdhury; Stree, 2014. Rs 600 Review by Sarmistha Dutta Gupta The privilege of upper-caste…
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Five Groundbreaking Works of the Late Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer
Writing mostly on issues of morality and racism, Nobel laureate and social activist Nadine Gordimer’s works on the…
‘Sonu aka Mandakini Phalke’
About the column: This series presents short articles and photo-essays on the industrial aspects of…
The Second Floor
Karachi’s voices of art and dissent are rising above the suppression and lockdowns in the most…
The Border Was Never the Borderline
Amit Sengupta crosses many borders – physical and metaphysical – to find poetry in dark times of…
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,…