I In a flash, innocence is lost, dignity stolen and a spirit beaten. It is a power so encompassing that it holds no space for compassion for the disenfranchised. II It is a familiar tale. Stopped at a routine
How soon or how late can you know love, can you love? Can you ever know love? What then might be love? A meditation on rhetorical questions, this. But of course. Love is Kim Casali’s “Love is…” pictures. It
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
Love as Sentimental Sexuality Gaspar Noé is known to shock his audience. People have vomited and walked out of his films at Cannes and other places. While many have found the violence—often sexual—exploitative and misogynistic, others have read layers of
Just before writing this, I read Rosalyn D’Mello’s new book, A Handbook For My Lover, a beautiful epistolary treatise on love and desire. I interrupted my reading for only two things: to attend a literary festival, and to buy lingerie.
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
Let’s start with rudimentary questions and basic assumptions. What is love? What does it have to do with anything that Kindle as a magazine may represent? It is not politico-cultural or eco-political or any of those rude-sounding hyphenated words that push
“To keep alive, within oneself: is this the best sign of fidelity?” —Jacques Derrida, ‘The Deaths of Roland Barthes’ in The Work of Mourning At my study table, a note, a text, a philosophy of life that has been,
Hopefully they reveal the ethnicities of the people involved in this shooting soon so we know whether to freak out or calmly brush it off,” tweeted the journalist Murtaza Hussein shortly after the terrorist attack on a public health training
There are communists in Pakistan?” When I was touring India with my band Laal (red), I was asked this question by young and old alike. Since domestic and international headlines concerning Pakistan revolve around terrorism and terrorists, it is only