Between the Lines
In this first of a four part series on the lives we lead, Ashoak Upadhyay untangles the web of illusion obscuring the pivot on which mainstream media turns: a neo-liberal nationalist-statist iniquitous order. …[Read More]…
That’s Life!!!
India’s rating on Press Freedoms measured by an index for 182 countries has slipped over the last year and stands way low. The world’s largest democracy must accept the RSF report and improve its ranking, says Raoof Mir. …[Read More]…
Literary Trails
A dreamscape etched by Shamsur Rahman Faruqi, in which time collapses, characters merge and separate, narrative moves between memoir and fiction, the ghost of Mir comes alive in encounters defined by dialogic imagination. …[Read More]…
Literary Trails
Scholar-author Geeta Patel comes to Chennai is locked down with poet-friends and finds herself in lyric. And why not? Reading, translating Miraji’s “queer hauntings,” her hidden ‘vocation had to surface.…[Read More]…
Literary Trails
As she rides a cab in Mumbai and the driver steers her through an unfamiliar city’s sights, sharing stories and histories, poetry and silences Vidya Rao experiences the warmth of memories, kindness, kinship…[Read More]…
Bookshelf
The pandemic reveals the intimacies between vaccine lobbies and the media that create, says Padmaja Challakere, both fear and valorized medicine. In Camus’ work she finds links between an agreement to fear and passive compliance to authority. And what it takes to be human.…[Read More]…
Literary Trails
Urdu polymath Shamsur Rahman Faruqi deconstructs our inherited ideas on culture, nation and history; points to a rich tradition of Indian or Indo-Muslim identity evolving against a colonial ethos. And it is still intact. …[Read More]…
Personal Notes
Nihilism and barbarity are inside our door; belief has replaced truth, truth is illusion and war an eternal condition. In this deafening darkness Dilip Simeon finds rays of light in Gandhi’s steadfast adherence to Truth and love—for all life. …[Read More]…