Personal Notes
In an intense examination of a writing life, Punjabi writer Ajeet Cour on what drives her: among others, an attempt “ to reconstruct life and interpret it in terms…more persuasive than reality.”…[Read More]…
Personal Notes
Hindi fiction writer Geetanjali Shree on growing up in two languages invested with an objectionable colonial hierarchy, finding the ‘Centre’, her centre in the ‘Other’ that turns her vocation ‘visible’...[Read More]…
Literary Trails
In his short life (1904-1926) Srečko Kosovel produced diverse work: over a thousand poems, hundreds of essays, prose pieces and notes that continue to engage readers. Rabindranath Tagore cast a major intellectual influence on his work as the young Slovenian avant-garde poet sought answers to issues such as imperialism and nationalism, …[Read More]…
Personal Notes
Indira Goswami’s life and work interrogate facets of women’s empowerment in India, foremost among them attitudes to the girl-child, marriage, widowhood, mapping a continuum of social change says Malashri Lal.…[Read More]…
Literary Trails
Jecinta Kerketta urges us to turn our attention from the horrors of floating corpses to the rivers that died or are dying; their mortality heralds the collapse of civilization itself. …[Read More]…
Literary Trails
Hindi poet Anamika interlaces themes of politics, society and domesticity in her poems, five from her first published collection in English and the rest from a forthcoming one. All translations by Vinita Sinha …[Read More]…
Between The Lines
Time was when we stood in long lines in order to live: that was bad enough, but today we have to wait in longer lines in order to die… we also have to wait in line to be cremated or buried, three to a pyre or grave. …[Read More]…
That’s Life!!!
Image’ managers weave veils over the brutal incompetence of pandemic governance; but illusions and the Image-as-Spectacle are constantly manufactured to obscure ‘abyssal’ lines in our society, says Ashoak Upadhyay …[Read More]…
Literary Trails
Pash comes to life as the poet talking back to the demons of our imes in these fresh translations from his work by Alok Bhalla…[Read More]…
Literary Trails
Dead bodies piling up, losing friends and relatives: Ashwani Kumar expresses his anguish but his poem is also about the longer history of hatred, the ideology of the rulers- a virus that devastates us.; his vision is dark, dystopian yet lyrical. …[Read More]…
Literary Trails
In the twilight years of the Mughal era, a tragi-comic tale by Ismat Chugtai of a child-bride discovering dignity and selfhood as a world collapses around her. Translated by Ayesha Kidwai.…[Read More]…
Visual Spaces
Coping with his existential grief as the virus, ‘malaise and mortality’, enters his home, Riyaz Latif remembers Degas’ sublime, soft lines of his Whirling Nuns. …[Read More]…
Visual Spaces
Ink and Brush Portraits by Akbar Padamsee of the heads of prophets scarred by suffering, shying away from our compassion and yet some glow with tints of mercy …[Read More]…
Between The Lines
A comprehensive response to the COVID crisis involves prioritising human and environmental concerns. Those should be the lesson rom the first wave, urges Vikalp Sangam Core Group. …[Read More]…
Personal Notes
Novelist Geetanjali Shree ruminates on man’s hubris and her own anguish as its ‘collateral beneficiary’. …[Read More]…