The four days of Chhath- Nahay Khay, Kharna, Sandhya Arghya (offering the setting sun), and Usha Arghya (offering to the rising sun) are also a post-anthropocentric celebration of the blurring of spatial and species distinctions.
In his latest collection of poems, Ashwani Kumar reflects on turbulent times through layered imagery of mythic histories, war, memory, and identity.
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.
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.
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.
A poem dedicated to Outlook's Adivasi Identity and Rights Issue
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
Ashwani Kumar writes a poem about rains and longing to write a book of rains.
Identity politics may have driven many progressive social movements, but electorally, it dangerously whets the appetite of the electorate for internecine war
The sufferings of migrant workers have become the most rivetingly tragic tale of our times
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