The Day Fascism Came Knocking
Jadavpur University repels a threatened “communal thrashing” by the ABVP, but fissures within the student body…
February, 2016
Let the past burn in our hearts
Whether you call us anti-nationals or critical patriots, JNU will continue to rage against the dying…
Confronting her Freudian Fate?
Asif Kapadia’s BAFTA-winning documentary on Amy Winehouse is an incisive examination of a tragic figure, writes…
Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience
Salil Tripathi manages to inhabit every page of his latest book without making it all about…
Heaven and Hell
Abhishek Kapoor’s ‘Fitoor’ is little more than a series of pretty picture postcards obscuring reality. Fitoor…
Loveless Sociopath—Or Bust
Do androids dream of falling in love? Can they? Koli Mitra finds out.Humans have a penchant…
Ella’s Song
By Rohit ChakrabortyI Mala had offended a real, live homosexual. A fledgling with a half-ripe voice whose…
Wordly Wise
The political lexicon expands as worldviews contract, and old hands are rewarded despite the blood that…
Love’s Story
By Devjani BodepudiI sit here alone. I’m on a park bench and the skies are blue….
Voices from Beyond and Within: In Memoriam
How do the indigenous cultures of the Northeast reckon with the ubiquity of death? Almost a…