Peacekeeper as Predator
UN peacekeepers are notorious for sexually assaulting the vulnerable people they are meant to protect. Why…
Politics & Society
Love Is…
What is love? And what is it not? How soon or how late can you know…
‘Love is a challenge of everyday life’
One cannot set out to love forever; it’s something that must be built day by day,…
The Tyranny of Love, and other stories
Sayan Bhattacharya provides six perspectives on love.Love as Sentimental Sexuality Gaspar Noé is known to shock…
Building Alone
I’ll take the radiant, radioactive half-life of love over half-love, writes Sharanya Manivannan.Just before writing this,…
‘Love is the enemy of fixed structures’
Ben Okri talks to Ajachi Chakrabarti about love, life and literature.The Greeks had a number of…
Of Truths and Loves
Love is a space which temporalises itself; it is time which spaces itself. It cannot be…
Deaths, Dialectics, and the Last Revolt
How does one mourn the loss of another that is so distant, yet so present in…
My Country, ’Tis Not for Thee
Donald Trump’s nativism is nothing new, says Koli Mitra. After all, despite Washington’s hopes of creating…
The People, United
The coming together of three major leftist organisations in Pakistan is a welcome development in the…