Madhopur Ka Ghar is a daringly introspective novel, a work of startling originality and beauty, and reliable and relatable like Rahi Masoom Raza’s classic novel Aadha Gaon.
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As the sage Atri in the Rig Veda exhorts, we need love (erotic and spiritual) because without it the world lacks gloss—emotional and physical. And love is what gives humanity its authenticity and allows us to reap the bounties of paradise.
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I came to the world like a dead telegram...Locked in the jail, accused of stealing electric wire, the village thief’s faint sobs sparkle like my mother’s sindoor.
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A poem dedicated to Outlook's Adivasi Identity and Rights Issue
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The memoir by a police officer tells a delightfully unique, personal tale of a cop surmounting routine bureaucratic and professional challenges to achieve a ‘near miracle’ in fixing a recalcitrant state
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Ashwani Kumar writes a poem about rains and longing to write a book of rains.
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Identity politics may have driven many progressive social movements, but electorally, it dangerously whets the appetite of the electorate for internecine war
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The sufferings of migrant workers have become the most rivetingly tragic tale of our times
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Niti Aayog’s prognosis is timely but it has missed the larger picture of irreversible social revolution in Bihar
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