Visual Spaces
Architect-Poet-Calligrapher H Masud Taj celebrates World Wada Paav Day, which falls on August 23rd, with his poetry and calligraphy by ruminating on the architecture of the vada pav and most famous diagram in the world drawn by the vegetarian Leonardo da Vinci.…[Read More]…
Literary Trails
A.J. Thomas poet and former editor of Indian Literature of Sahitya Akademi introduces the reader to Assam’s well known poet Jiban Narah. Steeped in the culture of the Brahmaputra Valley Narah’s poetry is influenced by his Missing tribe identity but expands his poetic presence at the national level. …[Read More]…
Bookshelf
Caustic wit and passionate humanity mark Avay Shukla’s writing, a no-holds-barred scrutiny of India’s political culture and current affairs, the environment and conservation, governance, societal peccadilloes, and much more. An extract. …[Read More]…
Bookshelf
Romila Thapar meditates on the uses and misuses of history to weaponise a past that never was to for a future that should never be. An extract from her latest collection of essays …[Read More]…
Between The Lines
Current day Nationalism/ majoritariaanism provides grounds for imagined /fantastical history that cannot explain the complexities in which those facts intersect to create multi-faceted histories. A lecture by Romila Thapar …[Read More]…
Between The Lines
No phrase has acquired as much currenccy in contemporary India as “Offending Sentiments” that allows citizens take offence at the most benign things, punish those “offenders” by dragging them to courts, beating them up or trolling them on social media. Saumya Baijal and Indranil Bhattacharya examine this “republic of the offended”…[Read More]…
Reading the Great Wave
by H Masud TajBetween The Lines
Poet-Calligrapher H Masud Taj contemplates the wave as a form and phenomenon in our lives via a woodblock print of the Japanese Master: Hokusai.…[Read More]…
Between The Lines
How the hill state ignored environmental rules and traditions to fill its coffers—and those of the ‘connected’ miners. Report by Tapasya & Aggam Walia.…[Read More]…
Between The Lines
In a misguided ‘development’ push for more housing and four-lane highways, the state is going down the same road as Uttarakhand, and will pay a heavy price, unless…warns Avay Shukla …[Read More]…
That’s Life!!!
A vital Atlantic Ocean system could collapse by 2060, eventually spelling catastrophe for the people who live in countries that border the Atlantic Ocean, warns Siri Chilukuri. …[Read More]…