Golchakkar Series - The October panel of our virtual literary talk featured Christopher Raja and Roanna Gonsalves: Dispatches from Australia.

‘Safety is never imagined; it has to be felt’. Ten years after its first publication, Saurabh Sharma argues why Law Like Love—a text that singularly captured the relationship between law and queerness in India from varying vantage points—remains as relevant as ever.

In Sophia Naz’s fourth poetry collection Open Zero (2021), humanity is not on a pedestal, but only serves as one of smaller units that make up the flawed, beautiful ecosystem of the world. By Karan Madhok

Kavitha Rao’s Lady Doctors visits the forgotten history of six women who persisted to become pioneering practitioners in the field. With continuing roadblocks for women in medicine, their story remains prescient in our contemporary times. By Sohel Sarkar

Golchakkar Series - The September panel of our virtual literary talk features Akshat Gupta and Kiriti Sengupta: The Evolving Pathways of Publishing.

Written of a time under armed occupation in the Kashmir valley, Farah Bashir’s memoir Rumours of Spring (2021) entwines the geographical and corporeal, the social and psychological, where the violence of the world remains painfully connected to the violence within. By Paromita Patranobish

‘I celebrate the ways in which queer people in the country have found ways of living with a law that hasn’t been particularly kind to their existence.’ Chintan Girish Modi interviews playwright/activist Danish Sheikh on his writing and the intersection of law, theatre, and queer sexuality.

In Moustache, S. Hareesh creates a modern Indian fable, a magical, evolving story that spreads its bushy tentacles far beyond the pages of the novel. By Karan Madhok

Golchakkar Series - The August panel of our virtual literary talk featured Ruth Vanita and Aditya Tiwari.: Indian Literature from a Queer Lens.

How does one introduce a child to the art of Raja Ravi Varma without being bogged down by the mounds of effusive praise and harsh criticism that have accumulated for over a century? Shobha Tharoor Srinivasan grapples with the question in Prince with a Paintbrush: The Story of Raja Ravi Varma.

In his 1938 book, author Suryakant Tripathi ‘Nirala’ memorialised the life of his friend Kulli Bhaat. While positioned as a progressive text, Nirala only ends up misrepresenting Bhaat. Saurabh Sharma analyses the text from its recent English translation A Life Misspent.

Golchakkar Series - The July panel of our virtual literary talk features Shelly Bhoil and Abhay K.: Dispatches from Latin America.