I love Kolkata and I am really looking forward to their reactions to my exhibition,” says Jayasri Burman, a little nervously. A sense of pride is visible in her playful eyes that hide behind thick-rimmed black glasses as she looks
Read an extract from Kalkatta, or click here for Devjani Bodepudi’s review. Kalkatta is about people facing the consequences of the India-Bangladesh partition. Jamshed’s family are refugees in a ‘Kalkatta’ rarely seen or brought to light. How has the setting of
I ready Skype in anticipation. I want this interview to go well. Anders Lustgarten has become somewhat of a hero for me, after I heard his Soho Theatre play, Lampedusa, on the radio. After a couple of initial glitches, I’m
To begin with, why did you choose this specific moment to give up the National Award, given that ever since this government has come to power, and of course even earlier, right-wing atrocities have been on an upsurge? It is
What is it about Urdu literature that appeals to you, how did your research begin and why do you think Urdu literature needs to come to the fore? Urdu is my mother tongue; it is the language I used at
Is there really a theory to acting? You’ve been an alumnus of two of the premier national institutes for the performing arts. Apart from an introduction into the wonderful world of psychedelia and the friends and contacts you made there,
कन्नड़ लेखक एम. एम. कलबुर्गी की हत्या के प्रतिवाद में हिंदी के रचनाकार उदय प्रकाश ने अपना साहित्य अकादमी का पुरस्कार लौटा देने की घोषणा की है। इस घोषणा के चंद दिनों बाद ही उदय प्रकाश कोलकाता आए थे। इस
Dr Kalburgi and MM Basheer are only the latest in a long line of intellectuals who have been targeted by “fringe elements” for expressing views that challenge orthodoxy. This month’s issue of Kindle Magazine seeks to understand what it means
Aamer Hussein is a writer, critic and a Professorial Writing Fellow at the University of Southampton. 37 Bridges and Other Stories, his eighth book, is a masterful new collection of 13 stories. Written beautifully to capture exile, settlement, modernity, friendship, love and art, the book
Robert Waterman McChesney is Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. An author, activist and journalist, he is a co-founder of Free Press, a national media reform organisation, and was one of the