During my recent visit to Benares, I found myself walking through a city reshaped by ambition, reordered by authority, and increasingly uncomfortable with the very rituals that had sustained it for centuries
About The Author
Anirban Ghosh is assistant professor and director, Centre for Writing, Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence, Gautam Buddha Nagar, Uttar Pradesh.
Dogs are not the problem; they are the symptom of a society that mistakes sentiment for solidarity. Compassion, like justice, has a caste: selective, performative, partial
The markers that defined the years of breathlessness during the pandemic have emerged in new forms—in endless wars, genocides, pollution and the gradual but complete collapse of care. Amid the gloom, teaching is an eternal beacon of hope.
Once you immerse in these sights and smells and finally surrender, then the gully shows you things
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