Literary Trails
His poetry interiorises suffering and outrage such that the public /private binary dissolves in his visions of abandoned love and injustices across space and time. Here’s Robin S. Ngangom
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Bookshelf
In this extract from his family saga, Saeed Ibrahim chronicles a tragedy foretold with brushstrokes that trace a life of routine grounded in communal harmony and tradition. …[Read More]…
Visual Spaces
In this concluding part of his journey through Hindi cinema’s Nehruvian tryst, Darius Cooper finds an era of vanishing illusions, nostalgia and incipient despair
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That’s Life!!!
Preoccupation with this blind metric’s fall as the barometer of well-being hides the reality of a deliberate pauperization that began much earlier and has gathered speed says Ashoak Upadhyay…[Read More]…
Visual Spaces
In this first part of his journey across Hindi cinema in post-Independent India till 1958, Darius Cooper sees Hindi films made with Nehru’s spirit of an “adaptable Occidentalism.” …[Read More]…
Literary Trails
Asif Raza reviews Shamsur Rahman Faruqi’s novel ‘Kai Chaand Thay Sare Aasmaan` (The Mirror of Beauty) over ten months of immersive and reflective readings in this riveting dialogue with the author.…[Read More]…
Between the Lines
Lokmanya Tilak’s death centenary (August 01) and the end of the annual celebratory Ganesh Chaturthi procession he launched prompts Mayank Bhatt to re-visit that leader’s shifting stances and his role as ‘nationalist’ leader. …[Read More]…
Literary Trails
Poet, painter and literary critic Sukrita Paul Kumar draws on her experience of working with the homeless street children and natural-disaster victims to search for meaning in poetry and painting …[Read More]…
Literary Trails
Poet A. J. Thomas turns his gaze to the city he didn’t want to love, did when he was away from it even though “It’s at once like an ocean that throws up/ Everything it takes in, and like a volcano/ That consumes anything thrown in” …[Read More]…
Personal Notes
Ashwin Desai sees the problems plaguing South African cricket–race, class privilege, ‘head counts’ and quotas—as symptoms of a deeper malaise, of racial chauvinism making a comeback.
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