The Loom Speaks
The weaves of the Northeast help pass on the world view, epistemology, religious ideologies, and history…
2015
Presidential Predicaments
Kalam and Kanye embody the binary of good minority/bad minority. On 28 August, the New Delhi…
Death of an Intellectual
A spectre of crass, predictable, inevitable irrationality is once again haunting the nation, says Amit Sengupta.This…
डाभोलकर, पानसारे और अब कलबुर्गी
हत्याओं की इस श्रृंखला से फासीवाद की पदध्वनि साफ सुनाई दे रही है: उदय प्रकाशकन्नड़ लेखक…
Subversive Verses
Javed Akhtar talks to Pratiti Ganatra about the attacks on intellectuals, and argues that a poet’s…
Harmless Pens. Harmful Pens.
Every writer is a rebel, for the very nature of the act of writing is such,…
The Revolution Will Not Be Contextualised
The modern intellectual must engage with the masses they speak for, says Soumabrata Chatterjee. After all,…
Beautiful Incoherence
Salman Rushdie’s new novel is a colourful experiment in didacticism, says Dipsikha Thakur. Two Years, Eight…
Presumptions of Purity
By Binit Priyaranjan Presumptions of Purity Come to bed. Switch off the light. Leave the music…
My Mother’s Earrings
By Qadri InzamamWhen you’ve been locked up in an unknown dingy cold room for a time,…