Literary Trails
In the isolation of our homes, messages from prophets and oracles sound false, memories slip away, fragments from the personal past surface. A selection of poems by E.V. Ramakrishnan …[Read More]…
Literary Trails
Riyaz Latif meditates on a cosmogony of the elements and our precarious finitude within it as ‘lost signs’…[Read More]…
Literary Trails
After a dry spell and in the midst of a spiritual journey, poetry happens to A.J. Thomas as manifestations of the Great Mother explode in his consciousness.…[Read More]…
Literary Trails
With an irreverence that interlaces several myths into a subversive vision of our entangled lives, Ashwani Kumar serves up his unique brand of ‘mythical realism.’ …[Read More]…
Personal Notes
Mayank Bhatt discovers he has pancreatic cancer and confronts questions of life and living, death and dying, the pain and hope of treatment and what it means to be an atheist…[Read More]…
That’s Life!!!
Sarosh Bana on the year that was and the images that should haunt every Indian with pain and anger, but may not as willful indifference sets in …[Read More]…
Personal Notes
Shamsur Rehman Faruqi doyen of Urdu literary tradition and champion of an Indic aesthetic passes on.…[Read More]…
That’s Life!!!
The ‘Farm Laws’ are being contested as unjust because they transfer adjudicatory power from civil courts to state authorities. MAHALAKSHMI PAVANI examines these provisions as violations of the principle of separation of powers.…[Read More]…
That’s Life!!!
The ongoing farmers’ agitation and the farm laws prompting them need to be located within the larger crisis fracturing rural India. The NRAS report offers an analysis that does this. Excerpts.…[Read More]…
Personal Notes
Amidst recurrent communal riots and Hindu-Muslim tensions in colonial Bengal, Tagore and Begum Rokeya, with vastly different backgrounds, religious identities, upbringing and creative sensibilities, stepped out of their cultural and gendered borders to embrace the ‘other’ says Mohammad A. Quayum …[Read More]…
Between the Lines
Anwar Moazzam invokes a theoretical framework to address the duality expressed in Islam’s universal ethical values and the forms these values take in different cultural zones of the world.…[Read More]…
Between the Lines
In the history of humanity, the Buddha will likely stand out, as perhaps, the only thinker who found a non-religious solution for the human existential angst in ethical practices avers K.P. Shankaran…[Read More]…
Between the Lines
Almost two decades ago, Ruth Vanita looked around for a ‘Hindu left’ as a foil to the Hindu Right. She did not find it; its absence led to questions that are relevant even more so today and need to be discussed.…[Read More]…
Between the Lines
In response to the issues raised by Ruth Vanita about the absence of a Hindu left, Ashoak Upadhyay asks if the question should not be reframed: Whatever made the Left dismiss Hinduism as an impediment to modernity? …[Read More]…