Edited by Ipsita Chanda and Jayeeta Bagchi Stree, Rs 550 Book Review by Epsita Halder In its series of readings in Gender Studies, the recent publication from the School of Women’s Studies, Jadavpur University, is called Shaping the
Amit Sengupta crosses many borders – physical and metaphysical – to find poetry in dark times of the sub- continent. If the Karachi airport had not been attacked by the jihadi terrorists, perhaps, in the last week of June this year,
1971 still torments Bangladesh… and some in Pakistan. Is there hope of healing? Powerful insights from Sadaf Saaz. I was excited and yet apprehensive to be invited to Lahore literature festival (LLF) in early 2014, in a country which had
Koli Mitra explores the issue of essentialism in how non-Muslims relate to Muslims in a world dominated by perceptions of ‘Islamic’ terrorism. 2003. The Iraq war had not yet begun. ‘Yellow cake’ was in the news. General Colin Powell threw
Raza Rumi cuts through the high decibel terrorism rhetoric to voice some ground realities of Pakistan, all this while braving attempts on his life. A few months back, I had to leave my country simply to ensure that I would
The Indo-Pak partition for some of them is gun fires, bomb-making classes, smiling buddhas, hotlines and FDI. But for most of us rest, it’s the issue of cricket matches and wedding visas. Nidhi Dugar Kundalia attends an India-Pakistan wedding, only
Living five kilometers away from the borders, Pakistan in many ways was an intrinsic part of my being. My earliest memories of Pakistan go back to 1971 when I was just three – just some hazy memories of blackouts, smoke
Roberto Rosselini’s Germany Year Zero (1948) is set in post war Germany in depression. A classic Italian Neo-realist film, it shows the city that is all rubbles and pieces, left like a royal standing cadaver. In the opening sequence, the
By positing Modi as a man from outside history, and by defying the media but staying on top of it, Modi’s image was rendered a ‘sovereignty effect’ that was supplanted upon his person. Akshaya Kumar analyses the key role played
The self-appointed champions of secular liberalism are decrying the recent electoral triumph of Hindu nationalism as a subversion of the true will of the people. Saswat Pattanayak argues that ‘we the people’ must not be let off the hook so