My father died in 2012. For a while, I thought the mourning was ours. But people kept coming. Months later. Parents asking if English sir was home
About The Author
Anirban Ghosh is assistant professor and director, Centre for Writing, Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence, Gautam Buddha Nagar, Uttar Pradesh.
The election campaign of Labani Jangi and Dipsita Dhar, two young women who stand at the forefront of the Left in West Bengal, is unique—they turn to local artists and folk musicians, allowing culture to travel where propaganda often fails
The question not whether Pujarini Pradhan is real. The question is why so many people need her not to be
Here’s what I saw at an LPG distribution centre while I was standing in the line to collect my cylinder
People elsewhere in Ahmedabad attach years to the 2002 post-Godhra riots. In this Muslim ghetto, people continue to live on the edge even today
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
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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