BBC informed us: “Kate in Labour as the World Waits”, CNN’s Victoria Arbiter said Kate Middleton was “brilliant for delivering a boy”, Times of India updated Indian readers about “15 quirky facts” they “didn’t know about the royal baby”, while
“The idea that stories slavishly obey deep structural patterns seems at first vaguely depressing. But it shouldn’t be. Think of the human face. The fact that all faces are very much alike doesn’t make the face boring or mean that
Now that the principal opposition party looks set to foist on us a man who presided over one of the worst massacres of Muslims in recent history, all hopes of critically analyzing the ruling coalition’s role in pushing India’s poor
“What should I do with my eyes? What should I watch?” The association of loneliness with the personal is based on a lingering myth. Far from being an individual symptom, loneliness is the inevitable outcome of an individualistic society.
“…but the shouting was terribly loud and we were no more than a handful, there were fifty of us to at least fifty thousand of them, the odds were overwhelming, but we fought a desperate fight, for the whole first
The beats might differ from place to place, but you can’t miss the tune playing everywhere on the picturesque North Campus of Delhi University – it is the dismal strain of frustration at having to continue putting up with gender
The carefully tended grass, spread out before the red and white of St. Stephen’s College, has of late taken to rustling a bit too loudly.Students have been protesting against the unfairness of having an ‘in-time’ only for female residents in
Krishna returned as Khusrau Bearing the heart of Radha The cowherd of blue pranks Trapped in a parrot’s pining A god of amorous glances Going blind before a nizam His flute once bound the feet His tabla now frees the
In Kashmir, contrary to the government’s claims of doing their best to integrate Kashmiri people with the mainland, the ground reality still remains unchanged. There are still thousands of people, in the valley, who are being denied security clearances for
Down the stairs of this house where plaster flakes and falls, Through the intimate emptiness of its rooms and hall, I hear your slow footsteps, grandmother, echo or pause As they used to through long summer afternoons spent within The