5 Great Books Written in Prison
When we imagine how our favourite authors penned their greatest masterpieces, we often wonder about where…
2015
The Structure of Things
One of the co-writers of the celebrated Partition drama ‘Qissa’, Madhuja Mukherjee describes the creative journey…
March Past (And Present)
In this edition of Qafe, Paramita Banerjee delves deeper into the blatant commercialisation that has overtaken…
Nobody’s Land
Poet and activist Lionel Fogarty talks to Debashree Dattaray about his efforts to help Australia’s aboriginal…
Glass Half Full
Shonali Bose’s ‘Margarita With A Straw’ is courageous and sensitive, but fails to become more than…
Out of Order
‘Court’ is an understated masterpiece that excoriates our broken justice system, says Ajachi Chakrabarti. Court Director:…
A Modern-Day Parable
“The human self has come before religion, nations and boundaries—what is the self?” This is the…
Fighting the Hierarchy
The perennial misrepresentation of conflict-ridden Kashmir in the mainstream narrative led Praneet Soi to delve into…
The Patriarchy Strikes Back
The gendered responses to Deepika Padukone’s video and the hierarchically prescriptive discources it generated reflect the…
Poems by Sanjeev Sethi
Life Story Acid of aloneness is less caustic than cussedness of company. Litterateurs mention little…