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In Memorium: Extracts from Gangar’s Migrant Workers Discourse that began as a Facebook post in 2020

Migrant Workers Discourse: A Facebook-series Turned E-Book

A valuable archive documents the migrant crisis in India that exacerbated after COVID-19

31 March 2023

A Second Home: A photo of Kitty Texeira, an Anglo-Indian woman living in McCluskieganj, selling fruits at the railway station taken in 2010

The Story of McCluskieganj

Journalist Vikas Kumar Jha first visited McCluskieganj in 1990 to write a story for a magazine. But he fell in love with the unique Anglo-Indian town and ended up writing a novel that has won many awards and accolades


Meeting Damodar Mauzo

An insightful encounter with Goan Konkani writer Damodar Mauzo


Historic Wrong: Literature on Anglo-Indians mostly written by British writers includes Orwell’s Burmese Days

The Racism Towards Anglo-Indians In English Literature

There is no dearth of prejudice and stereotyping of Anglo-Indians in 19th century English literature

24 March 2023

Re-canonising Kannada Literature

An anthology of translations brings rare gems of pre-colonial Kannada literature to readers


Book Review: Tabish Khair’s New Book Cannot Be Boxed Into A Genre

The Body by the Shore is a ‘scandinoir’ suspense-mystery thriller that takes the reader on a wild ride on the Danish high seas.

11 February 2023

The Trend Breaker:  Kitty Texeira has broken the stereotype of the Anglo-Indian community by marrying a local tribal man

The Custard Apple’s Seed

Kitty Texeira, an Anglo-Indian woman, has been living in McCluskieganj for decades, searching for her identity. An extract from Vikas Kumar Jha’s novel

23 March 2023

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No Country For Muslims

Angshuman Kar’s poem speaks about the consequences of reducing one’s identity to a piece of paper

10 February 2023

28 January 2023
All In The Name Of Cow Protection

All In The Name Of Cow Protection

It is important to understand the depth of the politicisation of the issue of cow protection which, over the last couple of decades, has resulted in the...


21 January 2023
The Difficult Business Of Expressing Love For A Father

The Difficult Business Of Expressing Love For A Father

A son writes a poem to his father about his inability to tell him that he loves him


24 December 2022
When A Poet Celebrates Ambiguity That Comes With Being Bilingual

When A Poet Celebrates Ambiguity That Comes With Being Bilingual

A bilingual poet, straddling the English and Odia worlds, finds that never giving up on writing kept him afloat


02 December 2022
Sci-Fi: Excerpts Of The Body By The Shore

Sci-Fi: Excerpts Of The Body By The Shore

One of the three main protagonists, Jens Erik, a conservative Danish police officer close to retirement, is talking to one of his informers, Hanif, a...


02 December 2022
Substrata: Shaming Gujarati Middle Class

Substrata: Shaming Gujarati Middle Class

Journalist and filmmaker Revati Laul talks about the kind of Gujarat that fuelled the imagination of artists not so long ago versus the dead space that it is...


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30 November 2022
The Vocabulary Of The Jungle

The Vocabulary Of The Jungle

Life assumes a different hue when you see it beyond the GDP, as you can hear the poetry of silence and ambivalence that Bastar weaves. Excerpts from...


26 November 2022
The Vocabulary Of The Jungle

The Vocabulary Of The Jungle

Life assumes a different hue when you see it beyond the GDP, as you can hear the poetry of silence and ambivalence that Bastar weaves. Excerpts from...


25 November 2022
Why Tribal Literature Cannot Be Divided Into ‘Folk Literature’ And ‘Nobel Literature’

Why Tribal Literature Cannot Be Divided Into ‘Folk Literature’ And ‘Nobel Literature’

Adivasis don’t fall into the lingual traps of modernity. In their philosophical tradition, they are more realistic and scientific than any society


18 November 2022
Unbounded: An Elegiac Biography Of ‘Naya Bihar’

Unbounded: An Elegiac Biography Of ‘Naya Bihar’

The memoir by a police officer tells a delightfully unique, personal tale of a cop surmounting routine bureaucratic and professional challenges to achieve a...


18 November 2022
Short Story: Set In A Different Time And Space

Short Story: Set In A Different Time And Space

‘Caste was to be annihilated. But you cannot do that for as long as people were being born unequal,’ writes Amulya B. in her riveting short story, ‘What...


18 November 2022
An Ode To Hindi Wordsmith Nirmal Verma

An Ode To Hindi Wordsmith Nirmal Verma

The literary biography of Hindi author Nirmal Verma, written by writer-journalist Vineet Gill, is an ode to the master


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12 November 2022
Persian And Urdu Ramayans

Persian And Urdu Ramayans

Travels through the marvellous world of Urdu and Persian Ramayans


05 November 2022
Photo Feature: Ageless Mind And Spirit

Photo Feature: Ageless Mind And Spirit

Artist and photographer Samar S. Jodha catches in still frames what he calls twilight tenderness


31 October 2022
River: A Poem From Sharmistha Mohanty's 'Extinctions'

River: A Poem From Sharmistha Mohanty's 'Extinctions'

Sharmistha Mohanty weaves a river's turbulence around a painting


29 October 2022
River: A Poem From Sharmistha Mohanty's 'Extinctions'

River: A Poem From Sharmistha Mohanty's 'Extinctions'

Sharmistha Mohanty weaves a river's turbulence around a painting


29 October 2022
Why Bengalis Have A Thriving Modern History Of Autobiography Writing

Why Bengalis Have A Thriving Modern History Of Autobiography Writing

Autobiographical writing has long been popular with Bengalis who look for plots in their own lives


29 October 2022
Kashmiri Writing Is Blooming

Kashmiri Writing Is Blooming

Despite, or perhaps because of, the violence that ravages the region, Kashmiri writing is blooming as the recent Kumaon Lit Fest held in Srinagar shows


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