Literary Trails
Selections from the latest published volumes of prose and poetry by Kunwar Narain re-affirm the breathtaking range of his creative visions of lived experiences and their tilted truths…[Read More]…
Personal Notes
Critiquing mainstream education as the legacy of the dismissal of colonized people as incapable of culture and epistemic pursuits, Sayan Dey casts around for alternatives he calls Pedagogy of the Stupid. …[Read More]…
Literary Trails
Mrinalini Harchandrai imbibes the rhythms of jazz and the soundtracks of the city that throbbing as its heartbeats to distil both into her poetic expressions. …[Read More]…
Literary Trails
The poems of John Chiramel meditate on the poignancy and pleasure, however futile and fleeting, of mysterious forbidden love.…[Read More]…
Between The Lines
In a classic case of cognitive injustice, farmers are being blamed for falling groundwater tables in Punjab. Research Unit for Political Economy, a think tank, dissects that fake “toolkit” and points to the underlying causes of a policy-driven environmental disaster and more…[Read More]…
Literary Trails
The horrors of our inhumanity wreaked on children is captured viscerally in this brief poem by Keki Daruwala…[Read More]…
Literary Trails
Elegaic memories bridge the gap between life and death, the black night and the bright star, in the poetry of Malashri Lal .…[Read More]…
Bookshelf
An excerpt from her forthcoming novel Ret Samadhi offers a glimpse of what to expect from Geetanjali Shree; translated as Tomb of Sand by Daisy Rockwell……[Read More]…
Bookshelf
In late 17th century Mewar miniaturist Allah Baksh illustrated the Gita. K.P. Shankaran reviews Alok Bhalla and Chandra Prakash Deval’s book that puts together for the first time the artist’s luminous work .…[Read More]…
Between The Lines
Dharampal examines the idea that Indians have been docile towards power as children towards their parents; if they have stood up to it, as the non-cooperation movement showed, European ideas of disaffection and/or Gandhi are responsible. Through meticulous research, he documents a home-grown tradition of civil disobedience. Some extracts…[Read More]…
Literary Trails
Poet-translator Robin S. Ngangom on the creative unity of life ruptured in that forgotten nook called home where rivers choke on garbage, a falling tree whispers its tears and bad places sprout…[Read More]…
Literary Trails
Manto weaves a shocking tale of human grossness out of a chapter from our inglorious history that foretold the horrors of partition, in this translation by Alok Bhalla …[Read More]…
Literary Trails
In a deconstruction of Manto’s short fiction about 1919, Alok Bhalla offers an elegant yet forcefully insightful, studied but not ponderous alternative reading of South Asia’s ‘vile’ histories …[Read More]…