Rooh Afza's Story of Mediocrity, Medicine and Mercy
Did you ever wonder about the journey of the scarlet red syrup that permanently sits in your kitchen and rules your heart in scorching...
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- May 7
Delving Deeper: A Call for Nuanced Film Criticism
Last month, on a Sunday morning, I was sipping on a cup of tea while reading 'Transcendental Style in Film,' a book by writer/director...
- Feb 25
Mystiques of gender cities and Sultana’s dream 1905
by Anushri Muthusamy “The city is an organized memory, and in history, women are the forgotten” - Hannah Arendt You are given a land and...
- Feb 14
Love Lines
Can you imagine the number of people racking their brains, mustering the courage, desperately trying to tell each other what they feel,...
- Jan 31
On Women and their Right to Dress
With the protests in Iran and supporters of Iranians voicing their anguish against the Islamic Republic, women have found their autonomy...
- Dec 10, 2022
Is Art Political?
1887, Beliatore village, West Bengal. A curious child was born. At the age of 16, he left home to move to modern-day Kolkata and enrolled...
- Nov 6, 2022
Behind the Mask: Vita Sackville-West
The androgynously gorgeous Lady Nicholson or as we know the sapphic baroness Vita Sackville-West had a fabulously dynamic identity...
- Sep 30, 2022
The Mystic through Rabindranath
The irrepressible desire of a number of poets through the annals of the past; exhibit steadfast disjunction from the physical parts of...
- Jul 6, 2022
Nabaneeta Dev Sen, A Legacy of Literature
“I was conceived in the womb of one poet and sired by another. Poetry, I suspect, was ruling my stars from the very first moment of my...
- Mar 26, 2022
Poetry, Protest and Propaganda — a Journey of Art Through Centuries of War
We have come a long way from where we began. Time has shifted, so have the tectonic plates. What remains terrifyingly constant is, people...
- Mar 26, 2022
Changing the Dynamics of ‘War Cinema’ using ‘Conflict’ as the Lens
have a stereotyped expectation around them which most of the filmmakers only manipulate with creative liberty but never muster the...
- Mar 26, 2022
The Boy in Striped Pyjamas - Beyond the Fence
In the mouth of war, humanity decays. It's only the living who know of their motherland, the dead only survives in the soils of history....
- Feb 27, 2022
Queer Literature – through the lens of 1950s
Art and literature climb out of the womb of desperation, either to express or communicate the tides that relentlessly push you against...
- Jan 25, 2022
Bastar Art- The Patrimony of Tribal Craftsmanship
Bastar Wooden Handmade Art (reflecting local mythology, rituals and folklore in exquisite shapes and forms) Bastar, a district in the...
- Jan 25, 2022
Bengal, A Martyr’s Poem
Forlorn palaces cling defiantly to their once-glorious pasts, and the half-ruined mosques and mildew-covered tombstones of East India...
- Jan 25, 2022
पधारो म्हारे देश
पधारो म्हारे देश राजस्थान को “राजाओं की भूमि” कहा जाता है। राजस्थान में कई खूबसूरत कलात्मक और सांस्कृतिक परंपराएं हैं जो...
- Jan 25, 2022
Parai – The Music of the People
Be it a silent street of a small village or a noisy neighbourhood of a town, we would’ve seen children making music instruments of empty...
- Jan 16, 2022
Kerala, My land is a woman
My land is a woman. She gets up at four in the morning every day, washes her long hair of ancestry in the Periyar, her rough hands that...
- Jan 16, 2022
Odisha, more than India’s best kept secret
A worn-out princess as I always refer to her as; my motherland precedes a royal history of the Great Kalinga War that lined the path of...
- Dec 20, 2021
Remembering a Revolution, Meena Kandasamy
Meena Kandasamy, Courtesy : The Guardian “On her neck, she wears not the thaali, that marker of marriage, but a cyanide capsule. She...
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