A Spoonful of Lunacy
A Baba on a bull provides solutions to the nation’s many crises. A figure—a luminous figure…
Politics & Society
60 Watts
By Jyoti SinghA small big-city window lights up at an ungodly hour. Part-drunk, part-bronchitic Mohan turns…
Sarojini and the Sambrani
The forest was all that there was, to earn some change. The forest was all that…
The Day Fascism Came Knocking
Jadavpur University repels a threatened “communal thrashing” by the ABVP, but fissures within the student body…
Let the past burn in our hearts
Whether you call us anti-nationals or critical patriots, JNU will continue to rage against the dying…
Loveless Sociopath—Or Bust
Do androids dream of falling in love? Can they? Koli Mitra finds out.Humans have a penchant…
Wordly Wise
The political lexicon expands as worldviews contract, and old hands are rewarded despite the blood that…
Voices from Beyond and Within: In Memoriam
How do the indigenous cultures of the Northeast reckon with the ubiquity of death? Almost a…
Broken News
The media in both India and the US need to stop acting like echo chambers for…
Searching for UN Sun
Tarun Bhartiya seeks out and profiles the bard of the Khasi working classes, a voice of…