Weekend Reads

| Instagram | : Canadian rap artist Tommy Genesis with her skin painted in vivid blue

Culture & Society

Tommy Genesis Row: Blue Is The Sacred Colour

BY Divya Tiwari

Illustration: Vikas Thakur

Goa ‹ 2075: Going, Going, Go-aah | Book Excerpt

BY Mayabhushan Nagvenkar

| Photo: Satish Padmanabhan : Nilza Wangmo, who runs the popular Alchi Kitchen

Culture & Society

Wonderland In Alchi

BY Satish Padmanabhan

Illustration by Anupriya : Loss Of My Best Friend Through Memories |

Culture & Society

Remembering To Heal: Coping With The Death Of My Best Friend

BY Swati Subhedar

Anupriya : Illustration

Culture & Society

The Last Bell | A Poem

Raina Rahael Ezekiel : Cover for Sweet Malida: Memories of a Bene Israel Woman, written by Zilka Joseph

Book Excerpt | Sweet Malida: Memories of a Bene Israel Woman, By Zilka Joseph

BY Zilka Joseph

Photo: Getty Images

Culture & Society

The Last Ride

BY Boudhayan Mukherjee

Photo: Getty Images

Book Review: Richard Osman’s ‘The Last Devil To Die’

Indian woman in white sari walking by a colorful house in Pondicherry

Culture & Society

Short Story: When A Riotous Mohenambal Came To Stay With Akka...

BY Roopa Swaminathan

Mini zen garden

Culture & Society

Emotional Intelligence (EI): A Concept More Important Than IQ

BY Dr Chandana Kashyap

Concept Image

Culture & Society

Short Story: Weeks Of Lying On Sofa

BY Monobina Nath

Family members grieve for their missing relatives in a landslide after heavy rains at Boh village in Kangra, Himachal Pradesh. (Photo: Getty Images)

Poem: Hum Pahari Fir Honge Tayyar

BY Aanamika Kalia

A young Hazara girl waits in the courtyard of an old mosque destroyed by the Taliban in 2018

Culture & Society

A Refugee In A Foreign Land: A Short Story

BY Mohammad Adil

Manoj Mitta’s book is a timely reminder that caste continues to flourish under modernity

Book Review - Caste Pride: Battles For Equality In Hindu India

Cards of BR Ambedkar scattered on a surface (Representative image)

Book Review: Mobilizing The Marginalized

BY Durdanah Masoodi

Photo: Getty Images

Culture & Society

Short Story: Great Spirits

Photo: Getty Images

Culture & Society

Two Poems By Rehaan Singh

BY Rehaan Singh

Photo: Getty Images

Culture & Society

A Poem On Beauty Of Life

BY Outlook News Desk

Retired Justice MR Shah

Culture & Society

Executive And Judiciary, The Blurred Lines Of Retired Justice MR Shah

BY Tanumoy Majumder

Dimple Kapadia in Antareen

Art & Entertainment

Mrinal Sen At 100: A Less-discussed But Significant Work, Antareen, Turns 30

A Kashmiri widow whose husband was killed in a crossfire rests after being treated for trauma.

Culture & Society

From The Listening Post Of Mental Health Distress Calls In Srinagar

BY Naseer Ganai

Women march with a banner preaching diversity.

Culture & Society

Ms, Mrs, Kumari, Shrimati: Do Prefixes Violate Women's Privacy?

A Close Connect

A Close Connect

BY Abdullah Khan

Our Own Orwell From Motihari

Our Own Orwell From Motihari

BY Nikhil Sanjay-Rekha Adsule

Artwork by Anupriya

A Poem On Appeasement/Positive Secularism

BY Shaikh Mujibur Rehman

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