Shaping the Discourse: Women’s Writings in Bengali Periodicals: 1865-1947
Edited by Ipsita Chanda and Jayeeta Bagchi Stree, Rs 550 Book Review by Epsita…
Politics & Society
The Border Was Never the Borderline
Amit Sengupta crosses many borders – physical and metaphysical – to find poetry in dark times of…
Healing The Wounds of 1971
1971 still torments Bangladesh… and some in Pakistan. Is there hope of healing? Powerful insights from…
You Think You Know Me?
Koli Mitra explores the issue of essentialism in how non-Muslims relate to Muslims in a world…
Reclaiming One’s Voice
Raza Rumi cuts through the high decibel terrorism rhetoric to voice some ground realities of Pakistan,…
A Marriage of ‘Foes’
The Indo-Pak partition for some of them is gun fires, bomb-making classes, smiling buddhas, hotlines and…
Pakistan: Snapshots from the Border
Looking at Pakistan from her childhood home in Kashmir, Anuradha Bhasin Jamwal collapses the distance… and…
No standing in these places, walk on
Roberto Rosselini’s Germany Year Zero (1948) is set in post war Germany in depression. A classic…
The Modi Wave
By positing Modi as a man from outside history, and by defying the media but staying…
Sovereignty, Unity and The State Of Denial
The self-appointed champions of secular liberalism are decrying the recent electoral triumph of Hindu nationalism as…