Indian publisher and feminist Urvashi Butalia co-founded India’s first feminist publishing house, ‘Kali for Women’ with Ritu Menon in 1984. Since 2003, she separately runs ‘Zubaan Books’ which tries to capture marginalized voices of women, apart from publishing academic
In addition to plays and screenplays, Kiran Nagarkar has written several novels, one of which (Cuckold) has been the recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award, establishing his reputation as one of the most prolific writers of post-colonial India. In a
In his first solo exhibition in India, titled Mastery of Language Affords Remarkable Power, held at The Experimenter Gallery, Kolkata, Samson Young from Hong Kong, explores the notions of margins and centres in paper works, videos and a durational performance.
How did you come across Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities and decide that you wanted to work on illustrating the cities written in the book? Tell us a little about this project in detail. It’s a long story, but I’ll do
To begin with, I’d like to congratulate you on being shortlisted for Abraaj Group Art Prize 2015 at Art Dubai along with Setareh Shahbazi and Mounira Al Solh. Thank you, thank you very much. Is this kind of gratification
The public meeting at JNU on 9 February that launched a thousand doctored videos was held to commemorate the executions of Afzal Guru and Maqbool Butt. Could you begin by talking about why these two cases are still open wounds
Could you begin by talking about how Dopehri came into being? Was this your first attempt at writing fiction? No. I had written something before this as well. It’s a funny incident, frankly. If you want, you can write it;
Your last film Tamasha received quite bipolar reviews from audiences, and in this day and age of social media and blogs, this sort of information is easily accessible to one and all. How do you personally think Tamasha did? How
Alberto Ruy-Sánchez Lacy is the author of six novels set in the Moroccan city of Mogador (now called Essaouira) that seek to investigate life’s mysteries and understand what it means to love and desire. He is also a poet and
The Greeks had a number of words for love to account for the multiplicities contained in the word—eros for sexual love, auteros for requited love, pothos for idealised love, philia for friendship, agape for unconditional, selfless love, storghe for the