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
I was gifted a Pelikan fountain pen some time ago, a beloved gift from someone beloved. It is yellow, like sunshine. I need to fix ink cartridges into it, a relief, for I get the joy of writing with a
Case 1: I was attending a public talk a few weeks ago at the India International Centre in Delhi, when I noticed something extremely curious. The talk was supposed to discuss the future of the humanities, both as a discipline
Last month, we learnt from highly placed sources that the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Mufti Sayeed was undergoing hallucinatory experiences; his advanced age of 79 summers taking a toll on his old mind and bladder made him see
“And over the village slipped the days, passing into the nights; the weeks flowed by, the months crept on, the wind howled, and, glassified with an autumnal, translucent, greenish-azure, the Don flowed tranquilly down to the sea.” —And Quiet Flows
Delhi’s hoardings usually skew towards the political. These days, they are prey to the ongoing battle between the local government and the national one, or—to put it in terms of its protagonists—between Mr Kejriwal and Mr Modi. (Sample Aam Aadmi
Is baar danga bahut bada tha Khoob hui thi khoon ki baarish Agle saal achchhi hogi fasal Matdaan ki (This time the riot was very big There was a heavy rain of blood Next year, there will be an
“Nothing can more efficiently destroy a person, fizzle their mind, evaporate their future, eliminate their potential or destroy society like pornography…It is worse than Hitler, worse than AIDS, cancer or any other epidemic. It is more catastrophic than nuclear
Growing up in an academic family, it was inevitable that I would be exposed to shelves full of books from a very early age. The supply of books and children’s magazines was also far more regular than that of new
When was the last time a government with an absolute majority withdrew an executive order within a week of its issue? That, my friend, is the power of porn! The varied demographic structure of India has always evoked difference of