Mama Gramah Mattur
Deepa Bhasthi pays a visit to the world’s only fully Sanskrit village, and finds that all…
Politics & Society
Of Swimming Pools and Land Pools
The shared logic of SEZs and Smart Cities must be rejected if we are to avoid…
Ismat and Ayaan
Ismat Chughtai and Ayaan Hirsi Ali might have had drastically different approaches to critiquing the faith…
The Free Radical
Ismat Chughtai reformulated the discipline of female writing and the role and social positioning of the…
The Crooked Line
Ismat Chughtai can’t simply be pigeonholed as a women’s writer. To do so is to disregard…
Woman
By Ismat ChughtaiWoman…woman…woman… Very good, disloyal, loyal, this and that, and god knows what else. In…
Petition: In Support of Teesta Setalvad
Hundreds of prominent artists, intellectuals and activists protest against the government’s witch hunt against Teesta Setalvad…
Oxi-Dokie: A Short History of the Greek Crisis
Despite a historic “No” vote earlier this month, Greek PM Alexis Tsipras has capitulated to the…
Consume With Care
The cause of environmentalism has been embraced by precisely those who are doing the most environmental…
The Old and the Restless
In this month’s satire, Muhammad Tahir examines the illnesses that haunt the senior citizens of Indian…