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  • Creativity
    • Jun 9, 2025 Praznath: An Excerpt Jun 9, 2025
    • May 30, 2025 The Gods are Only Human: Four Poems by Sreeja Naskar May 30, 2025
    • Apr 18, 2025 Between Lovers and Ghosts: Three Poems by Goirick Brahmachari Apr 18, 2025
    • Apr 16, 2025 My Place Under the Staircase Apr 16, 2025
    • Apr 9, 2025 Home and Exile: Two Poems by Ajanta Paul Apr 9, 2025
    • Apr 3, 2025 Burrow of the Mind: A response to Amit Shankar Saha’s poetry in ETESIAN::BARAHMASI Apr 3, 2025
    • Mar 31, 2025 Exit Bags Mar 31, 2025
    • Mar 27, 2025 The City as Erised’s Mirror: A Vision of Kolkata Mar 27, 2025
    • Feb 26, 2025 The House on the Yellow Fields Feb 26, 2025
    • Feb 23, 2025 Contours of a City: Poems and Photos by Sufia Khatoon Feb 23, 2025
    • Feb 11, 2025 ‘A silhouette of things’: Two poems by K.S. Subramanian Feb 11, 2025
    • Jan 30, 2025 Roses for Rinpoche Jan 30, 2025
    • Jan 22, 2025 Indian Generosity: An Excerpt from TRANSFORMED BY INDIA Jan 22, 2025
    • Jan 16, 2025 Mr./Ms. Anonymous – An Excerpt from THE MYSTERY OF THE SILKY WAVES Jan 16, 2025
    • Jan 6, 2025 Fate, Fortune, and a Life-Affirming Encounter with the Work of Navjot Altaf Jan 6, 2025
    • Dec 31, 2024 After the Ocean Dec 31, 2024
    • Dec 22, 2024 TEN INDIAN CLASSICS: Selections from ‘Selected Ghazals and Other Poems’ by Mir Taqi Mir Dec 22, 2024
    • Dec 19, 2024 Reflection Dec 19, 2024
    • Dec 12, 2024 ‘Moisture Appends the Subtext’: Three Poems by Tabish Nawaz Dec 12, 2024
    • Nov 29, 2024 ‘Almost Interpretable, Almost Bearable’: Four poems by Sambhu R. Nov 29, 2024
    • Nov 26, 2024 Punarmilāma Nov 26, 2024
    • Nov 12, 2024 Preparing for Another Life: Four Poems by Ankush Banerjee Nov 12, 2024
    • Nov 7, 2024 Unspoken Inheritance Nov 7, 2024
    • Nov 3, 2024 A Thousand Cuts: Two Poems by Carol D’Souza Nov 3, 2024
    • Oct 28, 2024 Words, rain, Mozart: Three Poems by Sunil Sharma Oct 28, 2024
    • Oct 25, 2024 A Recoiled Thunderstorm: Three Poems by Kashiana Singh Oct 25, 2024
    • Oct 10, 2024 A Cosmic Dance Oct 10, 2024
    • Sep 29, 2024 Frogs Sep 29, 2024
    • Sep 19, 2024 The Litanies of Your Imaginations: Three Poems by Panchami Sep 19, 2024
    • Sep 6, 2024 Yesterday’s Rain: Six Poems by Sakkho Goon Sep 6, 2024
    • Aug 24, 2024 A Better Place to Rest: Three Poems by Kiriti Sengupta Aug 24, 2024
    • Aug 16, 2024 Halima – Segregating Junk Aug 16, 2024
    • Aug 12, 2024 Hearts Marinated in Lies: Two Poems by Vrinda Bansal Aug 12, 2024
    • Aug 6, 2024 Prayers to Peace: Three poems by Smita Agarwal Aug 6, 2024
    • Jul 31, 2024 Mother of All Beings Jul 31, 2024
    • Jul 29, 2024 ‘A Knot that Would Not Unknot’ – Two Poems by Gopi Kottoor Jul 29, 2024
    • Jul 20, 2024 Holding Hands with the Stars: Five Poems by Sayan Aich Bhowmik Jul 20, 2024
    • Jul 13, 2024 House of Quiet Jul 13, 2024
    • Jul 6, 2024 Two Fridas: Two Poems by Shreya Sharma Jul 6, 2024
    • Jul 3, 2024 Kolkata Feasts or Firewood: Three Poems by Shome Dasgupta Jul 3, 2024
    • Jun 22, 2024 Paeans Jun 22, 2024
    • Jun 13, 2024 “Did you shave off your moustache?” Jun 13, 2024
    • Jun 9, 2024 ‘A Claim to Dawns’: Two Poems by Carol D’Souza Jun 9, 2024
    • Jun 6, 2024 All That the Kaveri Washes Away Jun 6, 2024
    • May 31, 2024 ‘You’re Also a Part of a Whole’: Poetry by Vikram Kolmannskog May 31, 2024
    • May 28, 2024 Maya Blue May 28, 2024
    • May 25, 2024 Cities That Walked – An Excerpt May 25, 2024
    • May 22, 2024 Days Are Whirlpools: Three Poems by K.S. Subramanian May 22, 2024
    • May 11, 2024 The World from my Window: Three Poems by Mary Tina Shamli Pillay May 11, 2024
    • May 1, 2024 Chris Rock to Kunal Kamra: My Transformation into a Comedy Uncle May 1, 2024
    • Apr 28, 2024 The Syntax of Time’s Wheel: Three Poems by Sunkara Gopal Apr 28, 2024
    • Mar 22, 2024 A Symbiotic Dance of Survival and Reverence Mar 22, 2024
    • Feb 24, 2024 Dreams of Californication Feb 24, 2024
    • Feb 20, 2024 Name Feb 20, 2024
    • Feb 16, 2024 Inheritance, from Loss Feb 16, 2024
    • Feb 12, 2024 Here and Now: Two Poems by Chintan Girish Modi Feb 12, 2024
    • Feb 7, 2024 Echoes of Winter Feb 7, 2024
    • Feb 3, 2024 When Azaleas Bloom: A Series of Poems by Nikhat Jonak Feb 3, 2024
    • Jan 25, 2024 why must i sleep at night? Jan 25, 2024
    • Jan 23, 2024 The Fear of Being Loved Jan 23, 2024
    • Jan 19, 2024 The Consolation of Ruins: Five Poems by Paromita Patranobish Jan 19, 2024
    • Jan 16, 2024 In Goa, Serendipity and the Self Jan 16, 2024
    • Jan 14, 2024 ‘A Day-Long Cloudburst’ – Two poems by Kiriti Sengupta Jan 14, 2024
    • Jan 10, 2024 The Obvious Jan 10, 2024
    • Jan 7, 2024 An Outing Jan 7, 2024
    • Jan 1, 2024 Amulets of Resistance: Two Poems by Kashiana Singh Jan 1, 2024
    • Dec 22, 2023 The Migrating Verse Dec 22, 2023
    • Dec 17, 2023 ‘On the wings of the seraph’: Two poems by Preeti Manaktala Dec 17, 2023
    • Dec 8, 2023 A Life on the Fringes of Cricket Madness Dec 8, 2023
    • Dec 4, 2023 Blood, Sweat, Tears Dec 4, 2023
    • Dec 1, 2023 Anamorphosis Dec 1, 2023
    • Nov 17, 2023 Odes to Autumn: Two Poems by Anushri Nanavati Nov 17, 2023
    • Nov 12, 2023 A Jasmine Trail Nov 12, 2023
    • Oct 9, 2023 “Renewals” and other poems by Sunil Sharma Oct 9, 2023
    • Oct 6, 2023 The Remedy Oct 6, 2023
    • Sep 18, 2023 Roots Sep 18, 2023
    • Sep 16, 2023 Resident Alien Sep 16, 2023
    • Sep 8, 2023 A Pair of Jhumkas Sep 8, 2023
    • Sep 6, 2023 The Security Guard Sep 6, 2023
    • Aug 31, 2023 Black Plums and a Purple Heart Aug 31, 2023
    • Aug 27, 2023 The Queen And I—An Excerpt from YAARI Aug 27, 2023
    • Aug 25, 2023 “Loom” and other poems by Jahnavi Gogoi Aug 25, 2023
    • Aug 21, 2023 Leaving Bannu Aug 21, 2023
    • Aug 16, 2023 Bites from the Market Aug 16, 2023
    • Aug 12, 2023 A Spectacular Map Aug 12, 2023
    • Aug 7, 2023 A Souvenir from The Taj Aug 7, 2023
    • Aug 4, 2023 A Cape of Memories: Three poems by Bharti Bansal Aug 4, 2023
    • Jul 31, 2023 Foregoing the bygones Jul 31, 2023
    • Jul 27, 2023 Burning Jul 27, 2023
    • Jul 23, 2023 Arrested Eyesight: Three poems by Vasundhara Parashar Jul 23, 2023
    • Jul 18, 2023 ‘Saw Eternity, Eroded’: Six poems by Dion D’Souza Jul 18, 2023
    • Jul 7, 2023 Ordinary Masons, Who Paint a Sun on the Sky Jul 7, 2023
    • Jun 25, 2023 Stargazing Jun 25, 2023
    • Jun 20, 2023 ‘A crucified alphabet of crossed out names’: Four poems by Ajay Kumar Jun 20, 2023
    • Jun 17, 2023 Blood Relation Jun 17, 2023
    • Apr 9, 2023 A Place of No Return Apr 9, 2023
    • Mar 31, 2023 Thoroughfare Mar 31, 2023
    • Mar 22, 2023 The Secret Name Mar 22, 2023
    • Mar 19, 2023 It Thrives in Winter Mar 19, 2023
    • Mar 16, 2023 Discovering Vincent Mar 16, 2023
  • Literature
    • Jun 5, 2025 Nalanda: The Memory of a Civilization Jun 5, 2025
    • Jun 2, 2025 A Completely Human AI-Generated Reading List for the Indian Summer Jun 2, 2025
    • May 12, 2025 “The more opposition I get, the more energy I get” – An Interview with Sudeep Chakravarty May 12, 2025
    • May 3, 2025 The Revolution Will Be Commodified: Gyan Chaturvedi’s THE MADHOUSE May 3, 2025
    • Apr 12, 2025 Hinduism Outside the Box: A Conversation with Manu Pillai Apr 12, 2025
    • Apr 7, 2025 Poetry as Ritual Magic: Rajorshi Patranabis’s GOSSIPS OF OUR SURROGATE STORY Apr 7, 2025
    • Apr 3, 2025 Burrow of the Mind: A response to Amit Shankar Saha’s poetry in ETESIAN::BARAHMASI Apr 3, 2025
    • Feb 20, 2025 The Divine Lens: A Biography of Raghu Rai Feb 20, 2025
    • Feb 14, 2025 Where do we find a story? An interview with Snehaprava Das Feb 14, 2025
    • Jan 25, 2025 Heer, Ranjha, and Haroon Khalid’s Infinite Story of Love Jan 25, 2025
    • Dec 22, 2024 TEN INDIAN CLASSICS: Selections from ‘Selected Ghazals and Other Poems’ by Mir Taqi Mir Dec 22, 2024
    • Dec 9, 2024 Calcutta’s Chromosome, Hidden in Plain Sight Dec 9, 2024
    • Dec 5, 2024 BLASPHEAR by Sohail Rauf: Religion, Fear, and the Cost of Silence Dec 5, 2024
    • Dec 2, 2024 Gopal Lahiri’s Poetry of Motion Dec 2, 2024
    • Nov 20, 2024 The Mathematical Values of Feeling Adrift Nov 20, 2024
    • Nov 1, 2024 A ‘Spicy’ Feast of Fantasy Nov 1, 2024
    • Oct 19, 2024 The Profound Metaphors of Inner Turmoil in Aparna Sanyal’s INSTRUMENTS OF TORTURE Oct 19, 2024
    • Oct 16, 2024 Voices of a Generation: An Interview with A.M. Gautam on INDIAN MILLENNIALS Oct 16, 2024
    • Oct 14, 2024 Down to EARTHA: Vinita Agrawal’s Poetic Conversation with Nature Oct 14, 2024
    • Sep 12, 2024 The City Must Die Before It’s Reborn: Varun Thomas Mathew’s THE BLACK DWARVES OF THE GOOD LITTLE BAY Sep 12, 2024
    • Aug 18, 2024 “I surrendered to the chaos”: An Interview with Tashan Mehta, author of MAD SISTERS OF ESI Aug 18, 2024
    • Aug 9, 2024 Rainbows on the Silver Screen Aug 9, 2024
    • Aug 3, 2024 “We All Share Human Experiences” – An Interview with K. Vaishali Aug 3, 2024
    • Jul 16, 2024 Celestial Broadcasts Jul 16, 2024
    • Jul 10, 2024 In the Unifying Language of Verse Jul 10, 2024
    • Jul 1, 2024 Obsession and Namelessness in Devibharathi’s THE SOLITUDE OF A SHADOW Jul 1, 2024
    • Jun 27, 2024 A Way of ‘Happening’: Amitava Kumar’s THE YELLOW BOOK Jun 27, 2024
    • Jun 15, 2024 “Sometimes silence works”: Words and Withdrawals in Kiriti Sengupta’s Oneness Jun 15, 2024
    • May 19, 2024 Art, Defanged May 19, 2024
    • May 13, 2024 Who Chooses Whom? The Book Buyer’s Conundrum May 13, 2024
    • May 8, 2024 A Chronicle of Mob Violence, Transgressions, and Social Media May 8, 2024
    • May 4, 2024 “I realized HURDA cannot be one person’s story”—An interview with Atharva Pandit May 4, 2024
    • Apr 22, 2024 Stepping Beyond the Boundaries: An Interview with Tishani Doshi Apr 22, 2024
    • Mar 17, 2024 Survival is an act of defiance Mar 17, 2024
    • Mar 11, 2024 In Our Own Voices: Queer Representation at the International Kolkata Book Fair Mar 11, 2024
    • Mar 6, 2024 “I Embrace My Bitterness” - An Interview with Abhishek Anicca Mar 6, 2024
    • Jan 28, 2024 To Live in a Language: An interview with Sumana Roy Jan 28, 2024
    • Jan 5, 2024 How Indian Publishers Pushed for Greater Diversity in 2023 Jan 5, 2024
    • Dec 26, 2023 Dispossession and Discomfort in Vivek Shanbhag’s SAKINA’S KISS Dec 26, 2023
    • Dec 19, 2023 Ranjit Hoskote’s Shimmering Lights Dec 19, 2023
    • Nov 22, 2023 A Bombay That Demands More Nov 22, 2023
    • Oct 15, 2023 A Synthesis of Physics and Poetry Oct 15, 2023
    • Oct 1, 2023 Mightier than the Bullet: The Writings of Julio Riberio Oct 1, 2023
    • Sep 23, 2023 Arundhati Roy: A Troublemaker Needed for our Troubled Times Sep 23, 2023
    • Sep 11, 2023 Revolution on the Airwaves: An Account of India’s Tumultuous Radio History Sep 11, 2023
    • Jul 14, 2023 Comings and Goings: On the beauty of Amitabha Bagchi’s HALF THE NIGHT IS GONE Jul 14, 2023
    • Jul 11, 2023 A Compassionate Dissent: The poetry of Madhu Raghavendra Jul 11, 2023
    • Jun 30, 2023 THE MENDICANT PRINCE: A Women-centric retelling of the Bhawal Sannyasi Case Jun 30, 2023
    • Jun 11, 2023 A Civilization and its Stories: Salman Rushdie’s VICTORY CITY Jun 11, 2023
    • Apr 18, 2023 An Entwined Trajectory of Bombay and a Boy Apr 18, 2023
    • Mar 25, 2023 SHADOW CITY and ORIENTING: On the Road with Two Indian Women Across Asia Mar 25, 2023
    • Feb 18, 2023 “Translation Is a Continuum” – An Interview with Daisy Rockwell Feb 18, 2023
    • Jan 21, 2023 An Interview with ‘The Guysexual’—Aniruddha Mahale Gets Out Jan 21, 2023
    • Jan 19, 2023 The Undying Muse: Nivedita Dey’s LARKSPUR LANE Jan 19, 2023
    • Dec 10, 2022 A Poetic Clarion Call to the Feminine Presence—Nabina Das’ ‘Anima’ Dec 10, 2022
    • Oct 25, 2022 Tales from a Bloody Baisakhi Oct 25, 2022
    • Sep 16, 2022 Art Against the Algorithm: Vauhini Vara’s THE IMMORTAL KING RAO Sep 16, 2022
    • Sep 10, 2022 The Idyllic Indian Village, Interrupted Sep 10, 2022
    • Sep 2, 2022 Literary Reflections: Stories from India and Pakistan in THE OTHER IN THE MIRROR Sep 2, 2022
    • Aug 27, 2022 No one an outsider in the holy city Aug 27, 2022
    • Aug 13, 2022 A Forgotten Rebellion: The Royal Navy’s Mutiny of 1946 Aug 13, 2022
    • Aug 8, 2022 Bleeding Past the Taboos: A new anthology on menstrual health in South Asia Aug 8, 2022
    • Aug 4, 2022 By the doorways of womanhood: The poetry of Kashiana Singh Aug 4, 2022
    • Jul 10, 2022 The Burning Embers of Petrofiction: Ilyas Ahmed Gaddi’s FIRE AREA Jul 10, 2022
    • Jul 5, 2022 In THE NUTMEG’S CURSE Amitav Ghosh gives voice to our ailing planet Jul 5, 2022
    • Jun 6, 2022 Authors of The Other: Social Realism in Indian Fiction Jun 6, 2022
    • May 29, 2022 Priya: The Brown-Skinned Supergirl to the Rescue May 29, 2022
    • Apr 21, 2022 The Ever-Moving Wheel: G.N. Devy on the Mahabharata Apr 21, 2022
    • Apr 14, 2022 Naming the Unnameable: Daribha Lyndem’s NAME PLACE ANIMAL THING Apr 14, 2022
    • Apr 3, 2022 Perumal Murugan Q&A: ‘It has always been my nature to go against the grain’ Apr 3, 2022
    • Mar 28, 2022 On the refractive indices of words: The poetry of Sridala Swami Mar 28, 2022
    • Mar 22, 2022 The Performance of Trauma in Fiction Mar 22, 2022
    • Mar 16, 2022 Literary Hoomans and their Best Friends Mar 16, 2022
    • Mar 2, 2022 Dreaming Among Debris Mar 2, 2022
    • Feb 25, 2022 Where the darkness blooms into jasmine: The poetry of Zilka Joseph Feb 25, 2022
    • Feb 6, 2022 Droughts and Disillusions: On the Life of Godavari Dange Feb 6, 2022
    • Feb 1, 2022 Full Circle: Ahlawat Gunjan on the Wondrous World of Book Cover Design Feb 1, 2022
    • Jan 27, 2022 ‘It’s Fair to Suggest that We Live in Two Indias’ – An Interview with Shashi Tharoor Jan 27, 2022
    • Jan 24, 2022 Pandemic, History, Democracy, and Chai: Previewing the Indian Non-Fiction Palette of 2022 Jan 24, 2022
    • Jan 16, 2022 True Lies in the Heartlands: Chandan Pandey’s LEGAL FICTION Jan 16, 2022
    • Dec 27, 2021 2021: A Year in Reading Dec 27, 2021
    • Dec 24, 2021 The Women Behind the Screen: Anubha Yadav discusses her book SCRIPTING BOLLYWOOD Dec 24, 2021
    • Nov 18, 2021 Anuk Arudpragasm’s A PASSAGE NORTH is a Quiet Resistance Against Time Nov 18, 2021
    • Oct 31, 2021 The Birth of Mocaine’s New Dimensions Oct 31, 2021
    • Oct 24, 2021 Golchakkar: Dispatches from Australia Oct 24, 2021
    • Oct 12, 2021 The Framework of Dignity Oct 12, 2021
    • Oct 7, 2021 Beauty and Nothingness: The poetry of Sophia Naz Oct 7, 2021
    • Sep 23, 2021 The Women of Medicine: A Timely Archive of India’s Pathbreaking ‘Lady Doctors’ Sep 23, 2021
    • Sep 16, 2021 Golchakkar: The Evolving Pathways of Publishing Sep 16, 2021
    • Sep 7, 2021 A Girlhood Lost Under Occupation: Farah Bashir’s RUMOURS OF SPRING Sep 7, 2021
    • Sep 4, 2021 Love, Law, and Literature: A conversation with Danish Sheikh Sep 4, 2021
    • Aug 21, 2021 Moustache, or The Man Who Never Ends Aug 21, 2021
    • Aug 12, 2021 Golchakkar: Indian Literature from a Queer Lens Aug 12, 2021
    • Jul 27, 2021 Raja Ravi Varma, Retold for Children Jul 27, 2021
    • Jul 21, 2021 A Life Misspent: Kulli Bhaat’s Life, as seen through Nirala’s Heteronormative Gaze Jul 21, 2021
    • Jul 19, 2021 Golchakkar: Dispatches from Latin America Jul 19, 2021
    • Jun 29, 2021 ‘In fiction, one finds the opportunity to utter the unsayable’ – An exploration of Queer Literature from India Jun 29, 2021
    • Jun 19, 2021 Golchakkar: Graphic Narratives from India Jun 19, 2021
    • Jun 7, 2021 Men, Inclusion, and Feminism Jun 7, 2021
    • May 29, 2021 Other Words and Inner Worlds May 29, 2021
  • Satire
    • Jun 2, 2025 A Completely Human AI-Generated Reading List for the Indian Summer Jun 2, 2025
  • Film/TV
    • May 26, 2025 How to Cook up a Cartel May 26, 2025
    • May 21, 2025 The Imitators May 21, 2025
    • May 17, 2025 ‘Bandi’; Or the Words that Redefine a Woman May 17, 2025
    • May 14, 2025 ‘Mrs.’, ‘The Great Indian Kitchen’, and the Women Who Couldn’t Choose to Walk Away May 14, 2025
    • Apr 21, 2025 The Trap of the Comfort Watch Apr 21, 2025
    • Mar 23, 2025 The Man Who Remembers Mar 23, 2025
    • Mar 13, 2025 Darna Zaroori Hai: The Evolution of Horror in Bollywood Mar 13, 2025
    • Feb 5, 2025 Talking the Talk: MEIYAZHAGAN and the Therapeutic Effect of Conversation Feb 5, 2025
    • Jan 19, 2025 ‘Shockingly Beautiful’: Ranking the Best of Bollywood in 2024 Jan 19, 2025
    • Jan 12, 2025 The many dichotomies of ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT Jan 12, 2025
    • Oct 23, 2024 Lost Women and Found Freedoms Oct 23, 2024
    • Sep 10, 2024 Mythological Narratives, Scientific Imaginations Sep 10, 2024
    • Sep 3, 2024 The Grand Cinema of Taking Offense Sep 3, 2024
    • Jul 22, 2024 Gone Girls Jul 22, 2024
    • Jun 24, 2024 No Monkeying Around Jun 24, 2024
    • Jun 4, 2024 A Caste-Ridden Society, in Checkmate Jun 4, 2024
    • May 19, 2024 Art, Defanged May 19, 2024
    • Mar 25, 2024 The Interplay of Fear and Courage in WHILE WE WATCHED Mar 25, 2024
    • Mar 19, 2024 Luck, Chance, and Cinema Mar 19, 2024
    • Mar 8, 2024 Silver Screen Circus Mar 8, 2024
    • Mar 2, 2024 Chef’s Kiss Mar 2, 2024
    • Feb 1, 2024 DRY DAY: A Tale of Political and Personal Prohibitions Feb 1, 2024
    • Dec 28, 2023 GOLDFISH: An Intimate Exploration of Family, Dementia, and Dysfunction Dec 28, 2023
    • Dec 14, 2023 Courage Becomes Cruelty: An Appropriation of “Arjan Vailly” in ANIMAL Dec 14, 2023
    • Dec 10, 2023 How Mammootty—the ‘Megastar’—Redefined Stardom Dec 10, 2023
    • Nov 1, 2023 Black Water and Black Hearts: The Politics of Citizenship in KAALA PAANI Nov 1, 2023
    • Aug 18, 2023 Garmi: A scorching drama on Indian Campus Politics Aug 18, 2023
    • Jul 20, 2023 A Profound Slow Burn Jul 20, 2023
    • Mar 7, 2023 Good Cop / Good Cop Mar 7, 2023
    • Nov 20, 2022 The Rockstar Catalysts Nov 20, 2022
    • Oct 22, 2022 A Grand Unified Theory of Aamir Khan Oct 22, 2022
    • Sep 10, 2022 The Idyllic Indian Village, Interrupted Sep 10, 2022
    • Jul 18, 2022 PANCHAYAT is a throwback that looks ahead Jul 18, 2022
    • Jun 27, 2022 A city translated through the languages of love Jun 27, 2022
    • Jun 10, 2022 An Age of Unreason: The Kashmir Files and The War on Information Jun 10, 2022
    • Apr 11, 2022 In BADHAAI DO, a small story asks big, bold questions Apr 11, 2022
    • Mar 31, 2022 The Great Indian Waste of Potential Mar 31, 2022
    • Mar 19, 2022 A Mature Portrayal of Science and Sensibility Mar 19, 2022
    • Jan 1, 2022 A BUNTY AUR BABLI for the Millennials Jan 1, 2022
    • Dec 24, 2021 The Women Behind the Screen: Anubha Yadav discusses her book SCRIPTING BOLLYWOOD Dec 24, 2021
    • Nov 26, 2021 The Past Superimposed upon the Present: Shoojit Sircar’s SARDAR UDHAM Nov 26, 2021
    • Nov 12, 2021 The ‘Secrets’ beyond a compelling Indian true-crime series Nov 12, 2021
    • Nov 3, 2021 Watch: THE LESSER CITIZENS, a short documentary about migrant labourers in Kerala Nov 3, 2021
    • Sep 13, 2021 THE DISCIPLE and Labours of Being Alive Sep 13, 2021
    • Jul 15, 2021 Skating Past Caste Tensions: How a Documentary Captured the ‘Wings’ of Change in an Indian village Jul 15, 2021
    • Jul 9, 2021 A roaring commentary on Indian Wildlife Jul 9, 2021
    • Jul 7, 2021 Life and Love through the Prism of Death Jul 7, 2021
    • Jul 1, 2021 TVF’s continuing ‘Aspiration’ as the voice of India’s Youth Jul 1, 2021
    • May 26, 2021 Thirteen Days of Mourning and Music, Death and Life May 26, 2021
    • May 13, 2021 The Long, Dark Chai-Time of the Soul May 13, 2021
    • Apr 28, 2021 Stranger Lives: AJEEB DAASTAANS—four uneven short films on life, love, and intersectionality Apr 28, 2021
    • Apr 1, 2021 The Inscrutable Oddity of Youth Apr 1, 2021
    • Mar 11, 2021 The Kitchen and the Cage Mar 11, 2021
    • Feb 24, 2021 Heroes and “Heroes”: AK VS AK and the blossoming of Meta-Cinema in Bollywood Feb 24, 2021
    • Feb 14, 2021 The Weight of Love: “Sir” and the delicate balance of an uneven romance Feb 14, 2021
    • Jan 31, 2021 Indian Tiger, Foreign Gaze Jan 31, 2021
    • Jan 28, 2021 Bringing Back the Popcorn: Is the future of Indian Films in OTT or the Theatre? Jan 28, 2021
    • Dec 30, 2020 The Next Episodes: The Best Indian web series in a year of OTT excellence Dec 30, 2020
    • Dec 23, 2020 Beyond Rom-Com: Finding the Unexpected in MISMATCHED Dec 23, 2020
    • Dec 15, 2020 Mass Entertainment Outrage Dec 15, 2020
    • Dec 9, 2020 SCAM 1992: A Time-Capsule of Crooked Ambition Dec 9, 2020
    • Dec 7, 2020 Jaa… Jee Le Apni Zindagi: On Fathers Confronting Feminism in Hindi Cinema Dec 7, 2020
    • Dec 3, 2020 The Story of the Aashrams Behind AASHRAM Dec 3, 2020
    • Nov 11, 2020 Blood Spilled and Blood Shared Nov 11, 2020
    • Oct 10, 2020 Scandal, Sex, and Skeletons: Aashram and the predictable villainy of on-screen godmen Oct 10, 2020
    • Sep 29, 2020 A Voice that Crossed Over; A Voice of a Generation Sep 29, 2020
    • Sep 20, 2020 The Sacrifices of Matrimony in A Suitable Boy Sep 20, 2020
    • Sep 8, 2020 Bulbbul: A Hypnotic Ride into the Horrors of Patriarchy Sep 8, 2020
    • Aug 19, 2020 Lights, Camera, and Gold Medals Aug 19, 2020
    • Aug 5, 2020 Sima Auntie’s Inconvenient Arrangements Aug 5, 2020
    • Jul 27, 2020 Bol! Ye thoda waqt bahut hai: Finding timeless poetry on the contemporary screen Jul 27, 2020
    • Jul 15, 2020 In the driver’s seat: A toast to the Everyday Woman in Gulabo Sitabo Jul 15, 2020
    • Jul 4, 2020 Cricket on Screen: The good, bad and ugly of Cricket in Bollywood Jul 4, 2020
    • Jun 28, 2020 Lyrical Cacophony: Sexuality and Objectification in Bollywood’s ‘Item Numbers’ Jun 28, 2020
    • Jun 25, 2020 Existence Is Resistance: How AXONE breaks barriers for Northeast representation in Bollywood Jun 25, 2020
    • Jun 23, 2020 The World According to Chippa Jun 23, 2020
    • Jun 9, 2020 City On Screen: Banaras to Varanasi Jun 9, 2020
    • Jun 8, 2020 Student's Corner: Back to Wasseypur Jun 8, 2020
    • May 23, 2020 The Weird and the Woeful May 23, 2020
    • May 16, 2020 Transcendence or trap: The pitfalls of Imtiaz Ali's SHE May 16, 2020
    • May 3, 2020 In His Second Skin: Roles that defined Irrfan Khan’s unmatched acting talent May 3, 2020
    • Apr 28, 2020 A gust of freedom: Water, Gender, and Caste in HELLARO Apr 28, 2020
    • Apr 16, 2020 A Hanumanic Leap: Why we must let India's mythological epics evolve beyond religion Apr 16, 2020
    • Mar 23, 2020 Yeh Meri (TV) Family Mar 23, 2020
    • Mar 16, 2020 Her Favourite Colour: How a ‘small’ incident in THAPPAD reveals the complex roots of Indian marriage and patriarchy Mar 16, 2020
    • Feb 21, 2020 In JAWAANI JANEMAN, Bollywood wrestles - and loses - with the idea of accepting an alternative lifestyle Feb 21, 2020
    • Feb 8, 2020 City On Screen: Bombay to Mumbai Feb 8, 2020
    • Jan 19, 2020 Fear and Loathing – and fact and fiction – in MEHSAMPUR Jan 19, 2020
    • Jan 6, 2020 The Decade in Hindi Cinema Jan 6, 2020
    • Dec 23, 2019 Why Netflix's LITTLE THINGS is a perfect showcase of Indian millennial relationships Dec 23, 2019
    • Nov 18, 2019 Excerpt: ‘Music, Masti, Modernity: The Cinema of Nasir Husain’ Nov 18, 2019
  • Sports/Outdoor
    • May 23, 2025 Virat Kohli: A Career Unforgettable—and Unfulfilled May 23, 2025
    • Oct 2, 2022 Leader of the Deep Waters Oct 2, 2022
    • Feb 12, 2022 A Havoc in the Himalaya Feb 12, 2022
    • Dec 7, 2021 The Fantastic World of Indian Fungi Dec 7, 2021
    • Aug 28, 2021 Travelling Without Footprints Aug 28, 2021
    • Jun 13, 2021 “When you train hard, the fight can be easy” Jun 13, 2021
    • Jun 9, 2021 Pardesi Pahadi: Splendour and Survival at Sahastra Tal Jun 9, 2021
    • Jun 4, 2021 Asha Jun 4, 2021
    • May 9, 2021 Stumped in the Bubble May 9, 2021
    • Dec 28, 2020 Pardesi Pahadi: Avalanche on Apharwat Dec 28, 2020
    • Sep 22, 2020 Pardesi Pahadi: Raja’s Hut and the Kashmir of Iron Khan Sep 22, 2020
    • Aug 27, 2020 Vishesh Bhriguvanshi: Arjuna on the Hardwood Aug 27, 2020
    • Aug 19, 2020 Lights, Camera, and Gold Medals Aug 19, 2020
    • Jul 4, 2020 Cricket on Screen: The good, bad and ugly of Cricket in Bollywood Jul 4, 2020
    • Jun 17, 2020 Pardesi Pahadi: Five books on the Himalaya and other Mountains Jun 17, 2020
    • Jun 2, 2020 Shyama's Cattle: Ode to a Himalayan friendship Jun 2, 2020
    • May 12, 2020 Student's Corner: Sports as a unifying element in India May 12, 2020
    • Apr 10, 2020 Pardesi Pahadi: Ascent to Bandarpunch - In search for wonders, real and imagined Apr 10, 2020
    • Feb 27, 2020 Pardesi Pahadi: Kedar Tal - Finding magic in the Himalaya Feb 27, 2020
    • Feb 11, 2020 Pardesi Pahadi: The frozen, lost paths to Bali Pass Feb 11, 2020
    • Jan 13, 2020 SHE DARED: A celebration of Indian women athletes Jan 13, 2020
    • Jan 3, 2020 Pardesi Pahadi: Nanda Devi - A glimpse of the Himalayan Goddess Jan 3, 2020
    • Dec 11, 2019 Excerpt: ‘WILD HIMALAYA: A Natural History of the Greatest Mountain Range on Earth’ Dec 11, 2019
  • Music
    • May 21, 2025 The Imitators May 21, 2025
    • Sep 1, 2024 We Need to Talk About Hanumankind Sep 1, 2024
    • Jun 18, 2024 ‘Afraid of Feeling So Great’: Green Park’s Moody Melodies of Separation and Growth Jun 18, 2024
    • May 17, 2024 How Chamkila’s Music Holds a Mirror up to Punjab’s Cultural Vices May 17, 2024
    • Dec 14, 2023 Courage Becomes Cruelty: An Appropriation of “Arjan Vailly” in ANIMAL Dec 14, 2023
    • Aug 9, 2023 Pioneers of Bangla World Rock: An Interview with members of Krosswindz Aug 9, 2023
    • Mar 13, 2023 A Stage in Symphony: The Alchemy of QALA’s Music Mar 13, 2023
    • Feb 1, 2023 ‘Meetha Sa Chara Hai Bukhar’: The Timeless Musical Fever of DEV.D Feb 1, 2023
    • Jan 12, 2023 Paa De Lohri: A reconsideration of the spring festival’s most popular folk songs Jan 12, 2023
    • Oct 7, 2022 Poison Pop Oct 7, 2022
    • Sep 27, 2022 808s & Sufiyana: Ahmer’s hip hop tapestry from the Kashmir Valley Sep 27, 2022
    • Sep 21, 2022 The Jazzy Raga of Cultures in MILES FROM INDIA Sep 21, 2022
    • Aug 23, 2022 A Sonic Autobiography of Moods: Music by Vivek Venugopal Aug 23, 2022
    • May 11, 2022 Pushing Forward with the Blues: An interview with Warren Mendonsa of Blackstratblues May 11, 2022
    • Apr 28, 2022 Jazz with an Indian Soul Apr 28, 2022
    • Oct 31, 2021 The Birth of Mocaine’s New Dimensions Oct 31, 2021
    • Aug 16, 2021 Of Inquilab and Saaz: The Music of Deepak Peace Aug 16, 2021
    • Aug 14, 2021 Songs in the Key of the Forest: The Music of Coorg’s Kudiya Tribe Aug 14, 2021
    • Jun 22, 2021 The Ballad of a Superpower Lost Jun 22, 2021
    • Apr 18, 2021 Punking The Public Apr 18, 2021
    • Jan 16, 2021 Kranti Havi: How Swadesi Became India’s Most Potent Voice of Protest Hip Hop Jan 16, 2021
    • Nov 8, 2020 Positive Vibrations Nov 8, 2020
    • Oct 28, 2020 The Perfect Blend: When Chai Met Toast and the Art of Happy, Infectious Music Oct 28, 2020
    • Sep 29, 2020 A Voice that Crossed Over; A Voice of a Generation Sep 29, 2020
    • Sep 16, 2020 When The Music Stops Sep 16, 2020
    • Sep 3, 2020 Music from the Hills: Abdon Mech dreams of better days in “Again” Sep 3, 2020
    • Jul 11, 2020 Music as Still Life: Sameer Rahat’s poetic solo debut Aamad Jul 11, 2020
    • Jul 2, 2020 The World is Ours—Divine leads the rise of Desi Rap, with an assist from Nas Jul 2, 2020
    • Jun 28, 2020 Lyrical Cacophony: Sexuality and Objectification in Bollywood’s ‘Item Numbers’ Jun 28, 2020
    • May 31, 2020 Livin’ With Metal: A peep into the Indian metal scene May 31, 2020
    • May 15, 2020 Nowhere But Here May 15, 2020
    • Apr 22, 2020 The homegrown blues of Lal And the People—An interview with frontman Rohit Lalwani Apr 22, 2020
    • Apr 19, 2020 Music from the Hills: Bipul Chettri’s latest release, ‘Neela Akash’ Apr 19, 2020
    • Mar 28, 2020 Music and the Virus: How the COVID-19 outbreak has disrupted the Indian Indie Scene. Mar 28, 2020
    • Mar 25, 2020 Music from the Hills: The Ladies of Indian Rock Mar 25, 2020
    • Jan 29, 2020 Music from the Hills: All efforts matter in the Indian indie scene Jan 29, 2020
    • Jan 22, 2020 Lucknow Music Diaries: Sticking to the setlist Jan 22, 2020
    • Dec 26, 2019 A Sort of Homecoming Dec 26, 2019
    • Dec 14, 2019 FutureDesi IndieSounds Dec 14, 2019
    • Dec 6, 2019 Wake Up and Listen Dec 6, 2019
    • Dec 1, 2019 Music from the Hills: The tale of the Worn-Out boot Dec 1, 2019
    • Nov 29, 2019 Rock-N-Honour-Rolls Nov 29, 2019
    • Nov 24, 2019 Meba’s Journey Nov 24, 2019
    • Nov 21, 2019 The Chakkar with Bangalore’s Live Music Scene Nov 21, 2019
    • Nov 18, 2019 Excerpt: ‘Music, Masti, Modernity: The Cinema of Nasir Husain’ Nov 18, 2019
    • Nov 13, 2019 Music from the Hills Nov 13, 2019
    • Nov 6, 2019 Band, Baaja, and Bachelor's Degrees Nov 6, 2019
  • Misc.
    • May 8, 2025 Maligned by Misinformation May 8, 2025
    • May 5, 2025 Stork Sister May 5, 2025
    • Mar 1, 2025 In Search of Shitala Mar 1, 2025
    • Feb 17, 2025 Love Without Freedom: The Shackles upon Indian Women in the Workforce Feb 17, 2025
    • Feb 2, 2025 Cannabis and the Kumbh Feb 2, 2025
    • Jan 9, 2025 The Trees of Our Land Jan 9, 2025
    • Dec 9, 2024 Calcutta’s Chromosome, Hidden in Plain Sight Dec 9, 2024
    • Nov 23, 2024 The ‘Sentinels’ of Tomorrow Nov 23, 2024
    • Nov 10, 2024 In Language, Colonial Kolkata Stays Alive Nov 10, 2024
    • Sep 15, 2024 The Legend of Café Samovar, Mumbai’s Melting Pot of Cozy Camaraderie Sep 15, 2024
    • Jul 25, 2024 The Summer of Heat Islands Jul 25, 2024
    • Apr 25, 2024 Where is the Work? Apr 25, 2024
    • Feb 10, 2024 Snowless in the Himalaya Feb 10, 2024
    • Nov 29, 2023 Troubled Waters Nov 29, 2023
    • Feb 12, 2023 The Growth Malaise Feb 12, 2023
    • May 4, 2022 The Decline That Wasn’t May 4, 2022
    • Apr 5, 2022 The Maya and the Meta Apr 5, 2022
    • Mar 8, 2022 Empowering The Marginalised Mar 8, 2022
    • Jan 19, 2022 Should we ever return to our offices again? Jan 19, 2022
    • Dec 13, 2021 Do You Hate This Ad? Spotify and the Self-Reflexivity of Advertising Dec 13, 2021
    • Oct 18, 2021 What Makes a Modern Indian Minimalist? Oct 18, 2021
    • Jul 23, 2021 Mental Health in India: Purity, Pollution, Caste, and Mental Health Jul 23, 2021
    • Jun 17, 2021 Selective Scarcity: A Queer Lens at India’s Health Care Imbalance Jun 17, 2021
    • Jun 11, 2021 A Tale of Two Pandemics: COVID and Disinformation Jun 11, 2021
    • Jun 1, 2021 How Happy Is Your Timeline? Jun 1, 2021
    • May 18, 2021 Reclaiming the Lost House of Oudh May 18, 2021
    • Mar 16, 2021 Mental Health in India: Academic Spaces as Centres of Well-Being and Resilience Mar 16, 2021
    • Feb 9, 2021 The Uncredited Authors of India’s Growth Story Feb 9, 2021
    • Jan 24, 2021 ‘We Shall Not Live Half-Asleep’: Glimpses of Revolution from the Farmers’ Protests Jan 24, 2021
    • Jan 9, 2021 Mental Health in India: Gaps in mental health care for India’s LGBTQ+ community Jan 9, 2021
    • Nov 26, 2020 Mental Health in India: Religion and mental health distress Nov 26, 2020
    • Oct 31, 2020 India’s Prevention Paradox Oct 31, 2020
    • Oct 13, 2020 Mental Health in India: Capitalism, Productivity and Mental Health Distress  Oct 13, 2020
    • Oct 1, 2020 The Crumbling Fourth Pillar Oct 1, 2020
    • Sep 5, 2020 Mental Health in India: Looking Through a Filter of Colonialism and Casteism Sep 5, 2020
    • Aug 31, 2020 India's Wait for the COVID-19 Vaccine and Economic Concerns Post-Lockdown Aug 31, 2020
    • Aug 13, 2020 What Happens After the Vaccine? Aug 13, 2020
    • Jul 7, 2020 The Disaster and the Displaced Jul 7, 2020
    • Jun 15, 2020 Stained Khaki: The roots and aggravations of police brutality Jun 15, 2020
    • May 19, 2020 The Vulnerable 50% May 19, 2020
    • Apr 30, 2020 The Mahatma in Mussoorie Apr 30, 2020
    • Apr 7, 2020 Mussoorie Writers: Tales From Sikander Hall by Lillian Skinner Singh Apr 7, 2020
    • Apr 2, 2020 The Indian Government Handbook to Fighting Coronavirus: An illustrated six-step journey Apr 2, 2020
    • Mar 11, 2020 The Redesign of New Delhi’s Central Vista, and the Colonial Stripes of Narendra Modi Mar 11, 2020
    • Feb 16, 2020 The Manic Medley of the Maximum City Feb 16, 2020
    • Dec 29, 2019 The Indigestible Politics and Violence of Food in India Dec 29, 2019
  • Photography
    • Mar 27, 2025 The City as Erised’s Mirror: A Vision of Kolkata Mar 27, 2025
    • Feb 23, 2025 Contours of a City: Poems and Photos by Sufia Khatoon Feb 23, 2025
    • Feb 8, 2025 Basant Panchami, Sufi Tunes, and Devotion: A tale of harmony at Nizamuddin Dargah Feb 8, 2025
    • Mar 22, 2024 A Symbiotic Dance of Survival and Reverence Mar 22, 2024
    • Jan 16, 2024 In Goa, Serendipity and the Self Jan 16, 2024
    • Nov 25, 2023 In Ramnagar, the Folk Theatre of the Ramlila Continues its Centuries-Old Traditions Nov 25, 2023
    • Aug 16, 2023 Bites from the Market Aug 16, 2023
    • Feb 9, 2023 Every Door, A Tender Veil: A photo-essay by Poornima Laxmeshwar Feb 9, 2023
    • Nov 15, 2022 On The Gateways of Faith: Divinity and the Damned in Haridwar Nov 15, 2022
    • Aug 1, 2022 A Searing Little Fire in Mumbai Aug 1, 2022
    • Jun 24, 2022 A colourful passage through time: Photos from Fort Kochi Jun 24, 2022
    • Feb 12, 2022 A Havoc in the Himalaya Feb 12, 2022
    • Dec 18, 2021 Breath, Life, and Connection – A Photo Essay Dec 18, 2021
    • Aug 28, 2021 Travelling Without Footprints Aug 28, 2021
    • Jul 30, 2021 The Backwaters Jul 30, 2021
    • Jun 15, 2021 Kolkata Hiraeth, A Longing for Home Jun 15, 2021
    • Jun 9, 2021 Pardesi Pahadi: Splendour and Survival at Sahastra Tal Jun 9, 2021
    • Apr 21, 2021 The Living Storybooks of Kolkata – A Photo Essay Apr 21, 2021
    • Mar 9, 2021 Fishing Along the Coringa Mangrove Forests Mar 9, 2021
    • Feb 17, 2021 The Drift Feb 17, 2021
    • Feb 11, 2021 Winter in the Old City Feb 11, 2021
    • Jan 24, 2021 ‘We Shall Not Live Half-Asleep’: Glimpses of Revolution from the Farmers’ Protests Jan 24, 2021
    • Jan 13, 2021 Everyday Rajasthan Travel Photo Contest 2020: The Winners! Jan 13, 2021
    • Dec 28, 2020 Pardesi Pahadi: Avalanche on Apharwat Dec 28, 2020
    • Dec 20, 2020 The Outsider Dec 20, 2020
    • Nov 29, 2020 Bombayscapes - A Photo Gallery Nov 29, 2020
    • Oct 25, 2020 Sonepur Mela: At the Festival of Beasts Oct 25, 2020
    • Oct 21, 2020 Living Memories: A Glimpse of the history at Landour Bazaar Oct 21, 2020
    • Sep 14, 2020 Ghats, Gullies, and Ganga Sep 14, 2020
    • Jun 17, 2020 Pardesi Pahadi: Five books on the Himalaya and other Mountains Jun 17, 2020
    • Jun 4, 2020 What the storm brought home: A photo-essay from Nagapattinam Jun 4, 2020
    • Jun 2, 2020 Shyama's Cattle: Ode to a Himalayan friendship Jun 2, 2020
    • Apr 25, 2020 Isolated With The Sky Apr 25, 2020
    • Apr 10, 2020 Pardesi Pahadi: Ascent to Bandarpunch - In search for wonders, real and imagined Apr 10, 2020
    • Mar 19, 2020 Student's Corner: Pondy - The South Indian Gem Mar 19, 2020
    • Mar 14, 2020 Indian Railways: A photographic journey Mar 14, 2020
    • Mar 9, 2020 Barsana Bhog: The legendary Holi celebrations of Braj Mar 9, 2020
    • Mar 1, 2020 Northeast Delhi Riots and the charred smell of Fear Mar 1, 2020
    • Feb 27, 2020 Pardesi Pahadi: Kedar Tal - Finding magic in the Himalaya Feb 27, 2020
    • Feb 11, 2020 Pardesi Pahadi: The frozen, lost paths to Bali Pass Feb 11, 2020
    • Feb 5, 2020 Achieving Zero: The loud silences of art from the 2020 India Art Fair Feb 5, 2020
    • Jan 3, 2020 Pardesi Pahadi: Nanda Devi - A glimpse of the Himalayan Goddess Jan 3, 2020
    • Dec 19, 2019 The Forgotten Town of Opulent Seths Dec 19, 2019
    • Nov 8, 2019 This Is Goa Nov 8, 2019
  • Art
    • Jan 6, 2025 Fate, Fortune, and a Life-Affirming Encounter with the Work of Navjot Altaf Jan 6, 2025
    • Dec 25, 2024 A River to Flow Through Us All Dec 25, 2024
    • Apr 13, 2024 Queens of the Hills Apr 13, 2024
    • Apr 11, 2024 Spiritual Homecomings: Shalmali Shetty on her curatorial project “The nights will follow the days” Apr 11, 2024
    • Jan 16, 2024 In Goa, Serendipity and the Self Jan 16, 2024
    • Oct 21, 2023 Ink(ed) on Flat Surfaces: A Show on Studio Practice Oct 21, 2023
    • Oct 18, 2023 With Great Ease: A Celebration of T.S. Satyan’s Photographic Gaze Oct 18, 2023
    • Jul 3, 2023 Toy Story Jul 3, 2023
    • Mar 10, 2023 An International Collage of Art and Artists Mar 10, 2023
    • Feb 7, 2023 The Beauty of Two Souls: The Rise of Customized Art Feb 7, 2023
    • Jan 10, 2023 At Manchester, a permanent celebration of the South Asian Diaspora Jan 10, 2023
    • Dec 24, 2022 A Century of Artistic Synthesis and Reinterpretations Dec 24, 2022
    • Dec 2, 2022 On the Crossroads of Art and Spirituality Dec 2, 2022
    • Nov 26, 2022 Gopi Gajwani, a Modernist product of Partition Nov 26, 2022
    • Nov 7, 2022 Metaphors for Larger Ruptures: The collected art of WOMAN IS AS WOMEN DOES Nov 7, 2022
    • Nov 2, 2022 The Artist and The Anthropocene Nov 2, 2022
    • Sep 8, 2022 The Cityscape in M. Pravat’s ‘Concrete Dusk’ Sep 8, 2022
    • Jul 28, 2022 A telling of our times: The art of Ashok Bhowmick Jul 28, 2022
    • Jul 21, 2022 Indian Art Under the Company’s Shadow Jul 21, 2022
    • May 19, 2022 Gameplay with an Artistic Heart May 19, 2022
    • May 14, 2022 Connecting the Dots: The art of Manisha Gera Baswani May 14, 2022
    • Apr 30, 2022 A Celebration of 1,300 years of Islamic Art Apr 30, 2022
    • Apr 18, 2022 ‘I Float, You Rise’: The art of Rahul Chauhan Apr 18, 2022
    • Apr 16, 2022 TRUTH DREAM: Breaking Gender Norms through a Phantasmagoria of Lived Desire Apr 16, 2022
    • Apr 9, 2022 Art and Ecology: Listening to the voice of art collectives in Assam Apr 9, 2022
    • Apr 7, 2022 Flights of Fancy: Kothandaraman Sambandan’s Journey in Art Apr 7, 2022
    • Feb 14, 2022 The Dark Webs of Jogen Chowdhury Feb 14, 2022
    • Feb 1, 2022 Full Circle: Ahlawat Gunjan on the Wondrous World of Book Cover Design Feb 1, 2022
    • Jan 10, 2022 The Women and the Safety Pin Jan 10, 2022
    • Jan 7, 2022 A Mumbai inspired by ‘The New Yorker’ Jan 7, 2022
    • Dec 21, 2021 With ‘Episteme’, Ten Indian Artists Translate the Language of Now Dec 21, 2021
    • Dec 10, 2021 The Studio as a Canvas: Sanoop P.C.’s Poetry of Impermanence Dec 10, 2021
    • Nov 5, 2021 The dawdling, gentle beauty of Aman Poddar’s patterns Nov 5, 2021
    • Oct 1, 2021 Full Circle: Shaleen Wadhwana on Art History in a Digital World Oct 1, 2021
    • Sep 28, 2021 Distorted Images: Caste, Sexuality, and History in the art of Keerthana Chandragiri Sep 28, 2021
    • Aug 26, 2021 Full Circle: Amardeep Behl on the Narrative Experiences in Space Aug 26, 2021
    • Jul 27, 2021 Raja Ravi Varma, Retold for Children Jul 27, 2021
    • May 23, 2021 The Transformational Joy of Art: In memoriam of Shakti Maira May 23, 2021
    • Dec 5, 2020 Life in the Bubbles: Dhruvi Acharya’s Pandemic Art Dec 5, 2020
    • Nov 17, 2020 Leaving Behind the Stardust: Inder Salim and a life sacrificed to art Nov 17, 2020
    • May 7, 2020 Masterpieces Under Our Feet May 7, 2020
    • Feb 5, 2020 Achieving Zero: The loud silences of art from the 2020 India Art Fair Feb 5, 2020
  • Editorial
    • May 19, 2024 Art, Defanged May 19, 2024
    • Mar 5, 2022 Grief at the Ghats Mar 5, 2022
    • Mar 31, 2020 Going Viral Mar 31, 2020
    • Jan 1, 2020 Who will chowkidar the chowkidars? Jan 1, 2020
    • Nov 5, 2019 Welcome to The Chakkar Nov 5, 2019
  • Theatre
    • Apr 8, 2024 Jyoti Dogra’s MAAS: The Body and Its Desires Apr 8, 2024
    • Nov 25, 2023 In Ramnagar, the Folk Theatre of the Ramlila Continues its Centuries-Old Traditions Nov 25, 2023
    • Aug 24, 2022 A Play on Blurred Sexual Lines—Now in India Aug 24, 2022
    • Dec 4, 2021 Full Circle: Greeny Francis on Theatre as Intervention Dec 4, 2021
    • Dec 1, 2021 The Market and The Jester Dec 1, 2021
    • Sep 18, 2021 Chennai is Joking Around Sep 18, 2021
    • Sep 4, 2021 Love, Law, and Literature: A conversation with Danish Sheikh Sep 4, 2021
    • Jan 3, 2021 Dancing In Deadlock: Kerala’s renowned Kathakali artistes have struggled to survive post the pandemic Jan 3, 2021
    • Oct 7, 2020 Hanging on to the Trapeze Oct 7, 2020
    • Aug 8, 2020 ‘We need to keep changing to survive’ – Virajas Kulkarni on the future of Indian theatre Aug 8, 2020
    • Jan 11, 2020 All The Stage's A World Jan 11, 2020
    • Nov 16, 2019 "Theatre has given me the right attitude and the ability to know and understand the other person" Nov 16, 2019
  • Podcast
    • Dec 17, 2022 The Best of 2022 - What’s The Chakkar? Dec 17, 2022
    • Nov 10, 2022 G.N. Devy, Ahmer, and Laal Singh Chaddha - What’s The Chakkar? Nov 10, 2022
    • Sep 19, 2022 Jayanth Kaikini, Darlings, and Parekh & Singh - What’s The Chakkar? Sep 19, 2022
    • Aug 18, 2022 Shrayana Bhattacharya, Blackstratblues, and Indian Predator - What’s The Chakkar? Aug 18, 2022
    • Jul 16, 2022 Dinesh C. Sharma, Goatsmoke, and Panchayat - What’s The Chakkar? Jul 16, 2022
    • Jun 16, 2022 Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar, Geetanjali Shree, and Shikhar - What’s The Chakkar? Jun 16, 2022
    • May 23, 2022 The Revisit Project, Guilty Minds, and Nev March - What’s The Chakkar? May 23, 2022
    • Apr 26, 2022 Josy Joseph, Rocket Boys, and Bloodywood - What’s The Chakkar? Apr 26, 2022
    • Mar 25, 2022 Mir Kashif Iqbal, Gehraiyaan, and Chandan Pandey - What’s The Chakkar? Mar 25, 2022
    • Feb 20, 2022 Krupa Ge, 83, and Aditi Ramesh - What’s The Chakkar? Feb 20, 2022
    • Jan 22, 2022 Decoupled, Amyt Datta, and Neel Mukherjee - What’s The Chakkar? Jan 22, 2022
    • Dec 30, 2021 The Best of 2021 - What’s The Chakkar? Dec 30, 2021
    • Nov 29, 2021 Mocaine, R.K. Narayan, and Sardar Udham - What’s The Chakkar? Nov 29, 2021
    • Oct 28, 2021 Wendy Doniger, Lagaan, and Dot. - What’s The Chakkar? Oct 28, 2021
    • Sep 26, 2021 Tinctures, The Disciple, and Suchitra Vijayan - What’s The Chakkar? Sep 26, 2021
    • Aug 24, 2021 S. Hareesh, Tejas, and The Family Man - What’s The Chakkar? Aug 24, 2021
    • Jul 25, 2021 Ray, Irfana & Taslina, and Albert Camus - What’s The Chakkar? Jul 25, 2021
    • Jun 25, 2021 Ramya Pothuri, Peter Wohlleben, and Pagglait - What's The Chakkar? Jun 25, 2021
    • May 21, 2021 Namit Arora, Project Mishram, and OK Computer - What's The Chakkar? May 21, 2021
    • Apr 14, 2021 Punk on Toast, Lori Gottlieb, and Deshdrohi - What's The Chakkar? Apr 14, 2021
    • Mar 24, 2021 Abdon Mech, AK VS AK, and Annie Zaidi - What's The Chakkar? Mar 24, 2021
    • Feb 22, 2021 Welcome Home, When Chai Met Toast, and Aravind Adiga - What's The Chakkar? Feb 22, 2021
    • Jan 22, 2021 Pradeep Damodaran, Lifafa, and Cargo - What's The Chakkar? Jan 22, 2021
    • Dec 18, 2020 Divine, Samit Basu, and Scam 1992 - What’s The Chakkar? Dec 18, 2020
    • Nov 20, 2020 Khwaab, Nisha Susan, and Mirzapur - What’s The Chakkar? Nov 20, 2020
  • Full Circle
    • Feb 1, 2022 Full Circle: Ahlawat Gunjan on the Wondrous World of Book Cover Design Feb 1, 2022
    • Dec 4, 2021 Full Circle: Greeny Francis on Theatre as Intervention Dec 4, 2021
    • Oct 21, 2021 Full Circle: Lakshya Datta, The Voice of Romance Oct 21, 2021
    • Oct 1, 2021 Full Circle: Shaleen Wadhwana on Art History in a Digital World Oct 1, 2021
    • Aug 26, 2021 Full Circle: Amardeep Behl on the Narrative Experiences in Space Aug 26, 2021
  • Golchakkar
    • Oct 24, 2021 Golchakkar: Dispatches from Australia Oct 24, 2021
    • Sep 16, 2021 Golchakkar: The Evolving Pathways of Publishing Sep 16, 2021
    • Aug 12, 2021 Golchakkar: Indian Literature from a Queer Lens Aug 12, 2021
    • Jul 19, 2021 Golchakkar: Dispatches from Latin America Jul 19, 2021
    • Jun 19, 2021 Golchakkar: Graphic Narratives from India Jun 19, 2021
    • May 16, 2021 Golchakkar: Poetry and the Pandemic May 16, 2021
    • Apr 4, 2021 Golchakkar: Imagining Place in Literature Apr 4, 2021
    • Mar 14, 2021 Golchakkar: Mother Tongues in a Global Context Mar 14, 2021
    • Feb 7, 2021 Golchakkar: Indian Dispatches from Europe Feb 7, 2021
    • Jan 18, 2021 Golchakkar: Indian Poetry from the Lockdown Jan 18, 2021
    • Dec 12, 2020 Golchakkar: Experiments in Indian Flash Fiction Dec 12, 2020
    • Nov 15, 2020 Golchakkar: The Non-Indian in Indian Literature Nov 15, 2020
    • Oct 19, 2020 Golchakkar: Open Your Eyes—Poetry’s Response to Climate Change Oct 19, 2020
  • Film
    • Sep 22, 2020 Pardesi Pahadi: Raja’s Hut and the Kashmir of Iron Khan Sep 22, 2020
  • Student's Corner
    • Jun 8, 2020 Student's Corner: Back to Wasseypur Jun 8, 2020
    • May 12, 2020 Student's Corner: Sports as a unifying element in India May 12, 2020
    • Mar 19, 2020 Student's Corner: Pondy - The South Indian Gem Mar 19, 2020
    • Dec 9, 2019 Student's Corner: How the Bhagwad Gita can be a bestseller for children Dec 9, 2019
  • Creativity
    • Jun 9, 2025 Praznath: An Excerpt Jun 9, 2025
    • May 30, 2025 The Gods are Only Human: Four Poems by Sreeja Naskar May 30, 2025
    • Apr 18, 2025 Between Lovers and Ghosts: Three Poems by Goirick Brahmachari Apr 18, 2025
    • Apr 16, 2025 My Place Under the Staircase Apr 16, 2025
    • Apr 9, 2025 Home and Exile: Two Poems by Ajanta Paul Apr 9, 2025
    • Apr 3, 2025 Burrow of the Mind: A response to Amit Shankar Saha’s poetry in ETESIAN::BARAHMASI Apr 3, 2025
    • Mar 31, 2025 Exit Bags Mar 31, 2025
    • Mar 27, 2025 The City as Erised’s Mirror: A Vision of Kolkata Mar 27, 2025
    • Feb 26, 2025 The House on the Yellow Fields Feb 26, 2025
    • Feb 23, 2025 Contours of a City: Poems and Photos by Sufia Khatoon Feb 23, 2025
    • Feb 11, 2025 ‘A silhouette of things’: Two poems by K.S. Subramanian Feb 11, 2025
    • Jan 30, 2025 Roses for Rinpoche Jan 30, 2025
    • Jan 22, 2025 Indian Generosity: An Excerpt from TRANSFORMED BY INDIA Jan 22, 2025
    • Jan 16, 2025 Mr./Ms. Anonymous – An Excerpt from THE MYSTERY OF THE SILKY WAVES Jan 16, 2025
    • Jan 6, 2025 Fate, Fortune, and a Life-Affirming Encounter with the Work of Navjot Altaf Jan 6, 2025
    • Dec 31, 2024 After the Ocean Dec 31, 2024
    • Dec 22, 2024 TEN INDIAN CLASSICS: Selections from ‘Selected Ghazals and Other Poems’ by Mir Taqi Mir Dec 22, 2024
    • Dec 19, 2024 Reflection Dec 19, 2024
    • Dec 12, 2024 ‘Moisture Appends the Subtext’: Three Poems by Tabish Nawaz Dec 12, 2024
    • Nov 29, 2024 ‘Almost Interpretable, Almost Bearable’: Four poems by Sambhu R. Nov 29, 2024
    • Nov 26, 2024 Punarmilāma Nov 26, 2024
    • Nov 12, 2024 Preparing for Another Life: Four Poems by Ankush Banerjee Nov 12, 2024
    • Nov 7, 2024 Unspoken Inheritance Nov 7, 2024
    • Nov 3, 2024 A Thousand Cuts: Two Poems by Carol D’Souza Nov 3, 2024
    • Oct 28, 2024 Words, rain, Mozart: Three Poems by Sunil Sharma Oct 28, 2024
    • Oct 25, 2024 A Recoiled Thunderstorm: Three Poems by Kashiana Singh Oct 25, 2024
    • Oct 10, 2024 A Cosmic Dance Oct 10, 2024
    • Sep 29, 2024 Frogs Sep 29, 2024
    • Sep 19, 2024 The Litanies of Your Imaginations: Three Poems by Panchami Sep 19, 2024
    • Sep 6, 2024 Yesterday’s Rain: Six Poems by Sakkho Goon Sep 6, 2024
    • Aug 24, 2024 A Better Place to Rest: Three Poems by Kiriti Sengupta Aug 24, 2024
    • Aug 16, 2024 Halima – Segregating Junk Aug 16, 2024
    • Aug 12, 2024 Hearts Marinated in Lies: Two Poems by Vrinda Bansal Aug 12, 2024
    • Aug 6, 2024 Prayers to Peace: Three poems by Smita Agarwal Aug 6, 2024
    • Jul 31, 2024 Mother of All Beings Jul 31, 2024
    • Jul 29, 2024 ‘A Knot that Would Not Unknot’ – Two Poems by Gopi Kottoor Jul 29, 2024
    • Jul 20, 2024 Holding Hands with the Stars: Five Poems by Sayan Aich Bhowmik Jul 20, 2024
    • Jul 13, 2024 House of Quiet Jul 13, 2024
    • Jul 6, 2024 Two Fridas: Two Poems by Shreya Sharma Jul 6, 2024
    • Jul 3, 2024 Kolkata Feasts or Firewood: Three Poems by Shome Dasgupta Jul 3, 2024
    • Jun 22, 2024 Paeans Jun 22, 2024
    • Jun 13, 2024 “Did you shave off your moustache?” Jun 13, 2024
    • Jun 9, 2024 ‘A Claim to Dawns’: Two Poems by Carol D’Souza Jun 9, 2024
    • Jun 6, 2024 All That the Kaveri Washes Away Jun 6, 2024
    • May 31, 2024 ‘You’re Also a Part of a Whole’: Poetry by Vikram Kolmannskog May 31, 2024
    • May 28, 2024 Maya Blue May 28, 2024
    • May 25, 2024 Cities That Walked – An Excerpt May 25, 2024
    • May 22, 2024 Days Are Whirlpools: Three Poems by K.S. Subramanian May 22, 2024
    • May 11, 2024 The World from my Window: Three Poems by Mary Tina Shamli Pillay May 11, 2024
    • May 1, 2024 Chris Rock to Kunal Kamra: My Transformation into a Comedy Uncle May 1, 2024
    • Apr 28, 2024 The Syntax of Time’s Wheel: Three Poems by Sunkara Gopal Apr 28, 2024
    • Mar 22, 2024 A Symbiotic Dance of Survival and Reverence Mar 22, 2024
    • Feb 24, 2024 Dreams of Californication Feb 24, 2024
    • Feb 20, 2024 Name Feb 20, 2024
    • Feb 16, 2024 Inheritance, from Loss Feb 16, 2024
    • Feb 12, 2024 Here and Now: Two Poems by Chintan Girish Modi Feb 12, 2024
    • Feb 7, 2024 Echoes of Winter Feb 7, 2024
    • Feb 3, 2024 When Azaleas Bloom: A Series of Poems by Nikhat Jonak Feb 3, 2024
    • Jan 25, 2024 why must i sleep at night? Jan 25, 2024
    • Jan 23, 2024 The Fear of Being Loved Jan 23, 2024
    • Jan 19, 2024 The Consolation of Ruins: Five Poems by Paromita Patranobish Jan 19, 2024
    • Jan 16, 2024 In Goa, Serendipity and the Self Jan 16, 2024
    • Jan 14, 2024 ‘A Day-Long Cloudburst’ – Two poems by Kiriti Sengupta Jan 14, 2024
    • Jan 10, 2024 The Obvious Jan 10, 2024
    • Jan 7, 2024 An Outing Jan 7, 2024
    • Jan 1, 2024 Amulets of Resistance: Two Poems by Kashiana Singh Jan 1, 2024
    • Dec 22, 2023 The Migrating Verse Dec 22, 2023
    • Dec 17, 2023 ‘On the wings of the seraph’: Two poems by Preeti Manaktala Dec 17, 2023
    • Dec 8, 2023 A Life on the Fringes of Cricket Madness Dec 8, 2023
    • Dec 4, 2023 Blood, Sweat, Tears Dec 4, 2023
    • Dec 1, 2023 Anamorphosis Dec 1, 2023
    • Nov 17, 2023 Odes to Autumn: Two Poems by Anushri Nanavati Nov 17, 2023
    • Nov 12, 2023 A Jasmine Trail Nov 12, 2023
    • Oct 9, 2023 “Renewals” and other poems by Sunil Sharma Oct 9, 2023
    • Oct 6, 2023 The Remedy Oct 6, 2023
    • Sep 18, 2023 Roots Sep 18, 2023
    • Sep 16, 2023 Resident Alien Sep 16, 2023
    • Sep 8, 2023 A Pair of Jhumkas Sep 8, 2023
    • Sep 6, 2023 The Security Guard Sep 6, 2023
    • Aug 31, 2023 Black Plums and a Purple Heart Aug 31, 2023
    • Aug 27, 2023 The Queen And I—An Excerpt from YAARI Aug 27, 2023
    • Aug 25, 2023 “Loom” and other poems by Jahnavi Gogoi Aug 25, 2023
    • Aug 21, 2023 Leaving Bannu Aug 21, 2023
    • Aug 16, 2023 Bites from the Market Aug 16, 2023
    • Aug 12, 2023 A Spectacular Map Aug 12, 2023
    • Aug 7, 2023 A Souvenir from The Taj Aug 7, 2023
    • Aug 4, 2023 A Cape of Memories: Three poems by Bharti Bansal Aug 4, 2023
    • Jul 31, 2023 Foregoing the bygones Jul 31, 2023
    • Jul 27, 2023 Burning Jul 27, 2023
    • Jul 23, 2023 Arrested Eyesight: Three poems by Vasundhara Parashar Jul 23, 2023
    • Jul 18, 2023 ‘Saw Eternity, Eroded’: Six poems by Dion D’Souza Jul 18, 2023
    • Jul 7, 2023 Ordinary Masons, Who Paint a Sun on the Sky Jul 7, 2023
    • Jun 25, 2023 Stargazing Jun 25, 2023
    • Jun 20, 2023 ‘A crucified alphabet of crossed out names’: Four poems by Ajay Kumar Jun 20, 2023
    • Jun 17, 2023 Blood Relation Jun 17, 2023
    • Apr 9, 2023 A Place of No Return Apr 9, 2023
    • Mar 31, 2023 Thoroughfare Mar 31, 2023
    • Mar 22, 2023 The Secret Name Mar 22, 2023
    • Mar 19, 2023 It Thrives in Winter Mar 19, 2023
    • Mar 16, 2023 Discovering Vincent Mar 16, 2023
  • Literature
    • Jun 5, 2025 Nalanda: The Memory of a Civilization Jun 5, 2025
    • Jun 2, 2025 A Completely Human AI-Generated Reading List for the Indian Summer Jun 2, 2025
    • May 12, 2025 “The more opposition I get, the more energy I get” – An Interview with Sudeep Chakravarty May 12, 2025
    • May 3, 2025 The Revolution Will Be Commodified: Gyan Chaturvedi’s THE MADHOUSE May 3, 2025
    • Apr 12, 2025 Hinduism Outside the Box: A Conversation with Manu Pillai Apr 12, 2025
    • Apr 7, 2025 Poetry as Ritual Magic: Rajorshi Patranabis’s GOSSIPS OF OUR SURROGATE STORY Apr 7, 2025
    • Apr 3, 2025 Burrow of the Mind: A response to Amit Shankar Saha’s poetry in ETESIAN::BARAHMASI Apr 3, 2025
    • Feb 20, 2025 The Divine Lens: A Biography of Raghu Rai Feb 20, 2025
    • Feb 14, 2025 Where do we find a story? An interview with Snehaprava Das Feb 14, 2025
    • Jan 25, 2025 Heer, Ranjha, and Haroon Khalid’s Infinite Story of Love Jan 25, 2025
    • Dec 22, 2024 TEN INDIAN CLASSICS: Selections from ‘Selected Ghazals and Other Poems’ by Mir Taqi Mir Dec 22, 2024
    • Dec 9, 2024 Calcutta’s Chromosome, Hidden in Plain Sight Dec 9, 2024
    • Dec 5, 2024 BLASPHEAR by Sohail Rauf: Religion, Fear, and the Cost of Silence Dec 5, 2024
    • Dec 2, 2024 Gopal Lahiri’s Poetry of Motion Dec 2, 2024
    • Nov 20, 2024 The Mathematical Values of Feeling Adrift Nov 20, 2024
    • Nov 1, 2024 A ‘Spicy’ Feast of Fantasy Nov 1, 2024
    • Oct 19, 2024 The Profound Metaphors of Inner Turmoil in Aparna Sanyal’s INSTRUMENTS OF TORTURE Oct 19, 2024
    • Oct 16, 2024 Voices of a Generation: An Interview with A.M. Gautam on INDIAN MILLENNIALS Oct 16, 2024
    • Oct 14, 2024 Down to EARTHA: Vinita Agrawal’s Poetic Conversation with Nature Oct 14, 2024
    • Sep 12, 2024 The City Must Die Before It’s Reborn: Varun Thomas Mathew’s THE BLACK DWARVES OF THE GOOD LITTLE BAY Sep 12, 2024
    • Aug 18, 2024 “I surrendered to the chaos”: An Interview with Tashan Mehta, author of MAD SISTERS OF ESI Aug 18, 2024
    • Aug 9, 2024 Rainbows on the Silver Screen Aug 9, 2024
    • Aug 3, 2024 “We All Share Human Experiences” – An Interview with K. Vaishali Aug 3, 2024
    • Jul 16, 2024 Celestial Broadcasts Jul 16, 2024
    • Jul 10, 2024 In the Unifying Language of Verse Jul 10, 2024
    • Jul 1, 2024 Obsession and Namelessness in Devibharathi’s THE SOLITUDE OF A SHADOW Jul 1, 2024
    • Jun 27, 2024 A Way of ‘Happening’: Amitava Kumar’s THE YELLOW BOOK Jun 27, 2024
    • Jun 15, 2024 “Sometimes silence works”: Words and Withdrawals in Kiriti Sengupta’s Oneness Jun 15, 2024
    • May 19, 2024 Art, Defanged May 19, 2024
    • May 13, 2024 Who Chooses Whom? The Book Buyer’s Conundrum May 13, 2024
    • May 8, 2024 A Chronicle of Mob Violence, Transgressions, and Social Media May 8, 2024
    • May 4, 2024 “I realized HURDA cannot be one person’s story”—An interview with Atharva Pandit May 4, 2024
    • Apr 22, 2024 Stepping Beyond the Boundaries: An Interview with Tishani Doshi Apr 22, 2024
    • Mar 17, 2024 Survival is an act of defiance Mar 17, 2024
    • Mar 11, 2024 In Our Own Voices: Queer Representation at the International Kolkata Book Fair Mar 11, 2024
    • Mar 6, 2024 “I Embrace My Bitterness” - An Interview with Abhishek Anicca Mar 6, 2024
    • Jan 28, 2024 To Live in a Language: An interview with Sumana Roy Jan 28, 2024
    • Jan 5, 2024 How Indian Publishers Pushed for Greater Diversity in 2023 Jan 5, 2024
    • Dec 26, 2023 Dispossession and Discomfort in Vivek Shanbhag’s SAKINA’S KISS Dec 26, 2023
    • Dec 19, 2023 Ranjit Hoskote’s Shimmering Lights Dec 19, 2023
    • Nov 22, 2023 A Bombay That Demands More Nov 22, 2023
    • Oct 15, 2023 A Synthesis of Physics and Poetry Oct 15, 2023
    • Oct 1, 2023 Mightier than the Bullet: The Writings of Julio Riberio Oct 1, 2023
    • Sep 23, 2023 Arundhati Roy: A Troublemaker Needed for our Troubled Times Sep 23, 2023
    • Sep 11, 2023 Revolution on the Airwaves: An Account of India’s Tumultuous Radio History Sep 11, 2023
    • Jul 14, 2023 Comings and Goings: On the beauty of Amitabha Bagchi’s HALF THE NIGHT IS GONE Jul 14, 2023
    • Jul 11, 2023 A Compassionate Dissent: The poetry of Madhu Raghavendra Jul 11, 2023
    • Jun 30, 2023 THE MENDICANT PRINCE: A Women-centric retelling of the Bhawal Sannyasi Case Jun 30, 2023
    • Jun 11, 2023 A Civilization and its Stories: Salman Rushdie’s VICTORY CITY Jun 11, 2023
    • Apr 18, 2023 An Entwined Trajectory of Bombay and a Boy Apr 18, 2023
    • Mar 25, 2023 SHADOW CITY and ORIENTING: On the Road with Two Indian Women Across Asia Mar 25, 2023
    • Feb 18, 2023 “Translation Is a Continuum” – An Interview with Daisy Rockwell Feb 18, 2023
    • Jan 21, 2023 An Interview with ‘The Guysexual’—Aniruddha Mahale Gets Out Jan 21, 2023
    • Jan 19, 2023 The Undying Muse: Nivedita Dey’s LARKSPUR LANE Jan 19, 2023
    • Dec 10, 2022 A Poetic Clarion Call to the Feminine Presence—Nabina Das’ ‘Anima’ Dec 10, 2022
    • Oct 25, 2022 Tales from a Bloody Baisakhi Oct 25, 2022
    • Sep 16, 2022 Art Against the Algorithm: Vauhini Vara’s THE IMMORTAL KING RAO Sep 16, 2022
    • Sep 10, 2022 The Idyllic Indian Village, Interrupted Sep 10, 2022
    • Sep 2, 2022 Literary Reflections: Stories from India and Pakistan in THE OTHER IN THE MIRROR Sep 2, 2022
    • Aug 27, 2022 No one an outsider in the holy city Aug 27, 2022
    • Aug 13, 2022 A Forgotten Rebellion: The Royal Navy’s Mutiny of 1946 Aug 13, 2022
    • Aug 8, 2022 Bleeding Past the Taboos: A new anthology on menstrual health in South Asia Aug 8, 2022
    • Aug 4, 2022 By the doorways of womanhood: The poetry of Kashiana Singh Aug 4, 2022
    • Jul 10, 2022 The Burning Embers of Petrofiction: Ilyas Ahmed Gaddi’s FIRE AREA Jul 10, 2022
    • Jul 5, 2022 In THE NUTMEG’S CURSE Amitav Ghosh gives voice to our ailing planet Jul 5, 2022
    • Jun 6, 2022 Authors of The Other: Social Realism in Indian Fiction Jun 6, 2022
    • May 29, 2022 Priya: The Brown-Skinned Supergirl to the Rescue May 29, 2022
    • Apr 21, 2022 The Ever-Moving Wheel: G.N. Devy on the Mahabharata Apr 21, 2022
    • Apr 14, 2022 Naming the Unnameable: Daribha Lyndem’s NAME PLACE ANIMAL THING Apr 14, 2022
    • Apr 3, 2022 Perumal Murugan Q&A: ‘It has always been my nature to go against the grain’ Apr 3, 2022
    • Mar 28, 2022 On the refractive indices of words: The poetry of Sridala Swami Mar 28, 2022
    • Mar 22, 2022 The Performance of Trauma in Fiction Mar 22, 2022
    • Mar 16, 2022 Literary Hoomans and their Best Friends Mar 16, 2022
    • Mar 2, 2022 Dreaming Among Debris Mar 2, 2022
    • Feb 25, 2022 Where the darkness blooms into jasmine: The poetry of Zilka Joseph Feb 25, 2022
    • Feb 6, 2022 Droughts and Disillusions: On the Life of Godavari Dange Feb 6, 2022
    • Feb 1, 2022 Full Circle: Ahlawat Gunjan on the Wondrous World of Book Cover Design Feb 1, 2022
    • Jan 27, 2022 ‘It’s Fair to Suggest that We Live in Two Indias’ – An Interview with Shashi Tharoor Jan 27, 2022
    • Jan 24, 2022 Pandemic, History, Democracy, and Chai: Previewing the Indian Non-Fiction Palette of 2022 Jan 24, 2022
    • Jan 16, 2022 True Lies in the Heartlands: Chandan Pandey’s LEGAL FICTION Jan 16, 2022
    • Dec 27, 2021 2021: A Year in Reading Dec 27, 2021
    • Dec 24, 2021 The Women Behind the Screen: Anubha Yadav discusses her book SCRIPTING BOLLYWOOD Dec 24, 2021
    • Nov 18, 2021 Anuk Arudpragasm’s A PASSAGE NORTH is a Quiet Resistance Against Time Nov 18, 2021
    • Oct 31, 2021 The Birth of Mocaine’s New Dimensions Oct 31, 2021
    • Oct 24, 2021 Golchakkar: Dispatches from Australia Oct 24, 2021
    • Oct 12, 2021 The Framework of Dignity Oct 12, 2021
    • Oct 7, 2021 Beauty and Nothingness: The poetry of Sophia Naz Oct 7, 2021
    • Sep 23, 2021 The Women of Medicine: A Timely Archive of India’s Pathbreaking ‘Lady Doctors’ Sep 23, 2021
    • Sep 16, 2021 Golchakkar: The Evolving Pathways of Publishing Sep 16, 2021
    • Sep 7, 2021 A Girlhood Lost Under Occupation: Farah Bashir’s RUMOURS OF SPRING Sep 7, 2021
    • Sep 4, 2021 Love, Law, and Literature: A conversation with Danish Sheikh Sep 4, 2021
    • Aug 21, 2021 Moustache, or The Man Who Never Ends Aug 21, 2021
    • Aug 12, 2021 Golchakkar: Indian Literature from a Queer Lens Aug 12, 2021
    • Jul 27, 2021 Raja Ravi Varma, Retold for Children Jul 27, 2021
    • Jul 21, 2021 A Life Misspent: Kulli Bhaat’s Life, as seen through Nirala’s Heteronormative Gaze Jul 21, 2021
    • Jul 19, 2021 Golchakkar: Dispatches from Latin America Jul 19, 2021
    • Jun 29, 2021 ‘In fiction, one finds the opportunity to utter the unsayable’ – An exploration of Queer Literature from India Jun 29, 2021
    • Jun 19, 2021 Golchakkar: Graphic Narratives from India Jun 19, 2021
    • Jun 7, 2021 Men, Inclusion, and Feminism Jun 7, 2021
    • May 29, 2021 Other Words and Inner Worlds May 29, 2021
  • Satire
    • Jun 2, 2025 A Completely Human AI-Generated Reading List for the Indian Summer Jun 2, 2025
  • Film/TV
    • May 26, 2025 How to Cook up a Cartel May 26, 2025
    • May 21, 2025 The Imitators May 21, 2025
    • May 17, 2025 ‘Bandi’; Or the Words that Redefine a Woman May 17, 2025
    • May 14, 2025 ‘Mrs.’, ‘The Great Indian Kitchen’, and the Women Who Couldn’t Choose to Walk Away May 14, 2025
    • Apr 21, 2025 The Trap of the Comfort Watch Apr 21, 2025
    • Mar 23, 2025 The Man Who Remembers Mar 23, 2025
    • Mar 13, 2025 Darna Zaroori Hai: The Evolution of Horror in Bollywood Mar 13, 2025
    • Feb 5, 2025 Talking the Talk: MEIYAZHAGAN and the Therapeutic Effect of Conversation Feb 5, 2025
    • Jan 19, 2025 ‘Shockingly Beautiful’: Ranking the Best of Bollywood in 2024 Jan 19, 2025
    • Jan 12, 2025 The many dichotomies of ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT Jan 12, 2025
    • Oct 23, 2024 Lost Women and Found Freedoms Oct 23, 2024
    • Sep 10, 2024 Mythological Narratives, Scientific Imaginations Sep 10, 2024
    • Sep 3, 2024 The Grand Cinema of Taking Offense Sep 3, 2024
    • Jul 22, 2024 Gone Girls Jul 22, 2024
    • Jun 24, 2024 No Monkeying Around Jun 24, 2024
    • Jun 4, 2024 A Caste-Ridden Society, in Checkmate Jun 4, 2024
    • May 19, 2024 Art, Defanged May 19, 2024
    • Mar 25, 2024 The Interplay of Fear and Courage in WHILE WE WATCHED Mar 25, 2024
    • Mar 19, 2024 Luck, Chance, and Cinema Mar 19, 2024
    • Mar 8, 2024 Silver Screen Circus Mar 8, 2024
    • Mar 2, 2024 Chef’s Kiss Mar 2, 2024
    • Feb 1, 2024 DRY DAY: A Tale of Political and Personal Prohibitions Feb 1, 2024
    • Dec 28, 2023 GOLDFISH: An Intimate Exploration of Family, Dementia, and Dysfunction Dec 28, 2023
    • Dec 14, 2023 Courage Becomes Cruelty: An Appropriation of “Arjan Vailly” in ANIMAL Dec 14, 2023
    • Dec 10, 2023 How Mammootty—the ‘Megastar’—Redefined Stardom Dec 10, 2023
    • Nov 1, 2023 Black Water and Black Hearts: The Politics of Citizenship in KAALA PAANI Nov 1, 2023
    • Aug 18, 2023 Garmi: A scorching drama on Indian Campus Politics Aug 18, 2023
    • Jul 20, 2023 A Profound Slow Burn Jul 20, 2023
    • Mar 7, 2023 Good Cop / Good Cop Mar 7, 2023
    • Nov 20, 2022 The Rockstar Catalysts Nov 20, 2022
    • Oct 22, 2022 A Grand Unified Theory of Aamir Khan Oct 22, 2022
    • Sep 10, 2022 The Idyllic Indian Village, Interrupted Sep 10, 2022
    • Jul 18, 2022 PANCHAYAT is a throwback that looks ahead Jul 18, 2022
    • Jun 27, 2022 A city translated through the languages of love Jun 27, 2022
    • Jun 10, 2022 An Age of Unreason: The Kashmir Files and The War on Information Jun 10, 2022
    • Apr 11, 2022 In BADHAAI DO, a small story asks big, bold questions Apr 11, 2022
    • Mar 31, 2022 The Great Indian Waste of Potential Mar 31, 2022
    • Mar 19, 2022 A Mature Portrayal of Science and Sensibility Mar 19, 2022
    • Jan 1, 2022 A BUNTY AUR BABLI for the Millennials Jan 1, 2022
    • Dec 24, 2021 The Women Behind the Screen: Anubha Yadav discusses her book SCRIPTING BOLLYWOOD Dec 24, 2021
    • Nov 26, 2021 The Past Superimposed upon the Present: Shoojit Sircar’s SARDAR UDHAM Nov 26, 2021
    • Nov 12, 2021 The ‘Secrets’ beyond a compelling Indian true-crime series Nov 12, 2021
    • Nov 3, 2021 Watch: THE LESSER CITIZENS, a short documentary about migrant labourers in Kerala Nov 3, 2021
    • Sep 13, 2021 THE DISCIPLE and Labours of Being Alive Sep 13, 2021
    • Jul 15, 2021 Skating Past Caste Tensions: How a Documentary Captured the ‘Wings’ of Change in an Indian village Jul 15, 2021
    • Jul 9, 2021 A roaring commentary on Indian Wildlife Jul 9, 2021
    • Jul 7, 2021 Life and Love through the Prism of Death Jul 7, 2021
    • Jul 1, 2021 TVF’s continuing ‘Aspiration’ as the voice of India’s Youth Jul 1, 2021
    • May 26, 2021 Thirteen Days of Mourning and Music, Death and Life May 26, 2021
    • May 13, 2021 The Long, Dark Chai-Time of the Soul May 13, 2021
    • Apr 28, 2021 Stranger Lives: AJEEB DAASTAANS—four uneven short films on life, love, and intersectionality Apr 28, 2021
    • Apr 1, 2021 The Inscrutable Oddity of Youth Apr 1, 2021
    • Mar 11, 2021 The Kitchen and the Cage Mar 11, 2021
    • Feb 24, 2021 Heroes and “Heroes”: AK VS AK and the blossoming of Meta-Cinema in Bollywood Feb 24, 2021
    • Feb 14, 2021 The Weight of Love: “Sir” and the delicate balance of an uneven romance Feb 14, 2021
    • Jan 31, 2021 Indian Tiger, Foreign Gaze Jan 31, 2021
    • Jan 28, 2021 Bringing Back the Popcorn: Is the future of Indian Films in OTT or the Theatre? Jan 28, 2021
    • Dec 30, 2020 The Next Episodes: The Best Indian web series in a year of OTT excellence Dec 30, 2020
    • Dec 23, 2020 Beyond Rom-Com: Finding the Unexpected in MISMATCHED Dec 23, 2020
    • Dec 15, 2020 Mass Entertainment Outrage Dec 15, 2020
    • Dec 9, 2020 SCAM 1992: A Time-Capsule of Crooked Ambition Dec 9, 2020
    • Dec 7, 2020 Jaa… Jee Le Apni Zindagi: On Fathers Confronting Feminism in Hindi Cinema Dec 7, 2020
    • Dec 3, 2020 The Story of the Aashrams Behind AASHRAM Dec 3, 2020
    • Nov 11, 2020 Blood Spilled and Blood Shared Nov 11, 2020
    • Oct 10, 2020 Scandal, Sex, and Skeletons: Aashram and the predictable villainy of on-screen godmen Oct 10, 2020
    • Sep 29, 2020 A Voice that Crossed Over; A Voice of a Generation Sep 29, 2020
    • Sep 20, 2020 The Sacrifices of Matrimony in A Suitable Boy Sep 20, 2020
    • Sep 8, 2020 Bulbbul: A Hypnotic Ride into the Horrors of Patriarchy Sep 8, 2020
    • Aug 19, 2020 Lights, Camera, and Gold Medals Aug 19, 2020
    • Aug 5, 2020 Sima Auntie’s Inconvenient Arrangements Aug 5, 2020
    • Jul 27, 2020 Bol! Ye thoda waqt bahut hai: Finding timeless poetry on the contemporary screen Jul 27, 2020
    • Jul 15, 2020 In the driver’s seat: A toast to the Everyday Woman in Gulabo Sitabo Jul 15, 2020
    • Jul 4, 2020 Cricket on Screen: The good, bad and ugly of Cricket in Bollywood Jul 4, 2020
    • Jun 28, 2020 Lyrical Cacophony: Sexuality and Objectification in Bollywood’s ‘Item Numbers’ Jun 28, 2020
    • Jun 25, 2020 Existence Is Resistance: How AXONE breaks barriers for Northeast representation in Bollywood Jun 25, 2020
    • Jun 23, 2020 The World According to Chippa Jun 23, 2020
    • Jun 9, 2020 City On Screen: Banaras to Varanasi Jun 9, 2020
    • Jun 8, 2020 Student's Corner: Back to Wasseypur Jun 8, 2020
    • May 23, 2020 The Weird and the Woeful May 23, 2020
    • May 16, 2020 Transcendence or trap: The pitfalls of Imtiaz Ali's SHE May 16, 2020
    • May 3, 2020 In His Second Skin: Roles that defined Irrfan Khan’s unmatched acting talent May 3, 2020
    • Apr 28, 2020 A gust of freedom: Water, Gender, and Caste in HELLARO Apr 28, 2020
    • Apr 16, 2020 A Hanumanic Leap: Why we must let India's mythological epics evolve beyond religion Apr 16, 2020
    • Mar 23, 2020 Yeh Meri (TV) Family Mar 23, 2020
    • Mar 16, 2020 Her Favourite Colour: How a ‘small’ incident in THAPPAD reveals the complex roots of Indian marriage and patriarchy Mar 16, 2020
    • Feb 21, 2020 In JAWAANI JANEMAN, Bollywood wrestles - and loses - with the idea of accepting an alternative lifestyle Feb 21, 2020
    • Feb 8, 2020 City On Screen: Bombay to Mumbai Feb 8, 2020
    • Jan 19, 2020 Fear and Loathing – and fact and fiction – in MEHSAMPUR Jan 19, 2020
    • Jan 6, 2020 The Decade in Hindi Cinema Jan 6, 2020
    • Dec 23, 2019 Why Netflix's LITTLE THINGS is a perfect showcase of Indian millennial relationships Dec 23, 2019
    • Nov 18, 2019 Excerpt: ‘Music, Masti, Modernity: The Cinema of Nasir Husain’ Nov 18, 2019
  • Sports/Outdoor
    • May 23, 2025 Virat Kohli: A Career Unforgettable—and Unfulfilled May 23, 2025
    • Oct 2, 2022 Leader of the Deep Waters Oct 2, 2022
    • Feb 12, 2022 A Havoc in the Himalaya Feb 12, 2022
    • Dec 7, 2021 The Fantastic World of Indian Fungi Dec 7, 2021
    • Aug 28, 2021 Travelling Without Footprints Aug 28, 2021
    • Jun 13, 2021 “When you train hard, the fight can be easy” Jun 13, 2021
    • Jun 9, 2021 Pardesi Pahadi: Splendour and Survival at Sahastra Tal Jun 9, 2021
    • Jun 4, 2021 Asha Jun 4, 2021
    • May 9, 2021 Stumped in the Bubble May 9, 2021
    • Dec 28, 2020 Pardesi Pahadi: Avalanche on Apharwat Dec 28, 2020
    • Sep 22, 2020 Pardesi Pahadi: Raja’s Hut and the Kashmir of Iron Khan Sep 22, 2020
    • Aug 27, 2020 Vishesh Bhriguvanshi: Arjuna on the Hardwood Aug 27, 2020
    • Aug 19, 2020 Lights, Camera, and Gold Medals Aug 19, 2020
    • Jul 4, 2020 Cricket on Screen: The good, bad and ugly of Cricket in Bollywood Jul 4, 2020
    • Jun 17, 2020 Pardesi Pahadi: Five books on the Himalaya and other Mountains Jun 17, 2020
    • Jun 2, 2020 Shyama's Cattle: Ode to a Himalayan friendship Jun 2, 2020
    • May 12, 2020 Student's Corner: Sports as a unifying element in India May 12, 2020
    • Apr 10, 2020 Pardesi Pahadi: Ascent to Bandarpunch - In search for wonders, real and imagined Apr 10, 2020
    • Feb 27, 2020 Pardesi Pahadi: Kedar Tal - Finding magic in the Himalaya Feb 27, 2020
    • Feb 11, 2020 Pardesi Pahadi: The frozen, lost paths to Bali Pass Feb 11, 2020
    • Jan 13, 2020 SHE DARED: A celebration of Indian women athletes Jan 13, 2020
    • Jan 3, 2020 Pardesi Pahadi: Nanda Devi - A glimpse of the Himalayan Goddess Jan 3, 2020
    • Dec 11, 2019 Excerpt: ‘WILD HIMALAYA: A Natural History of the Greatest Mountain Range on Earth’ Dec 11, 2019
  • Music
    • May 21, 2025 The Imitators May 21, 2025
    • Sep 1, 2024 We Need to Talk About Hanumankind Sep 1, 2024
    • Jun 18, 2024 ‘Afraid of Feeling So Great’: Green Park’s Moody Melodies of Separation and Growth Jun 18, 2024
    • May 17, 2024 How Chamkila’s Music Holds a Mirror up to Punjab’s Cultural Vices May 17, 2024
    • Dec 14, 2023 Courage Becomes Cruelty: An Appropriation of “Arjan Vailly” in ANIMAL Dec 14, 2023
    • Aug 9, 2023 Pioneers of Bangla World Rock: An Interview with members of Krosswindz Aug 9, 2023
    • Mar 13, 2023 A Stage in Symphony: The Alchemy of QALA’s Music Mar 13, 2023
    • Feb 1, 2023 ‘Meetha Sa Chara Hai Bukhar’: The Timeless Musical Fever of DEV.D Feb 1, 2023
    • Jan 12, 2023 Paa De Lohri: A reconsideration of the spring festival’s most popular folk songs Jan 12, 2023
    • Oct 7, 2022 Poison Pop Oct 7, 2022
    • Sep 27, 2022 808s & Sufiyana: Ahmer’s hip hop tapestry from the Kashmir Valley Sep 27, 2022
    • Sep 21, 2022 The Jazzy Raga of Cultures in MILES FROM INDIA Sep 21, 2022
    • Aug 23, 2022 A Sonic Autobiography of Moods: Music by Vivek Venugopal Aug 23, 2022
    • May 11, 2022 Pushing Forward with the Blues: An interview with Warren Mendonsa of Blackstratblues May 11, 2022
    • Apr 28, 2022 Jazz with an Indian Soul Apr 28, 2022
    • Oct 31, 2021 The Birth of Mocaine’s New Dimensions Oct 31, 2021
    • Aug 16, 2021 Of Inquilab and Saaz: The Music of Deepak Peace Aug 16, 2021
    • Aug 14, 2021 Songs in the Key of the Forest: The Music of Coorg’s Kudiya Tribe Aug 14, 2021
    • Jun 22, 2021 The Ballad of a Superpower Lost Jun 22, 2021
    • Apr 18, 2021 Punking The Public Apr 18, 2021
    • Jan 16, 2021 Kranti Havi: How Swadesi Became India’s Most Potent Voice of Protest Hip Hop Jan 16, 2021
    • Nov 8, 2020 Positive Vibrations Nov 8, 2020
    • Oct 28, 2020 The Perfect Blend: When Chai Met Toast and the Art of Happy, Infectious Music Oct 28, 2020
    • Sep 29, 2020 A Voice that Crossed Over; A Voice of a Generation Sep 29, 2020
    • Sep 16, 2020 When The Music Stops Sep 16, 2020
    • Sep 3, 2020 Music from the Hills: Abdon Mech dreams of better days in “Again” Sep 3, 2020
    • Jul 11, 2020 Music as Still Life: Sameer Rahat’s poetic solo debut Aamad Jul 11, 2020
    • Jul 2, 2020 The World is Ours—Divine leads the rise of Desi Rap, with an assist from Nas Jul 2, 2020
    • Jun 28, 2020 Lyrical Cacophony: Sexuality and Objectification in Bollywood’s ‘Item Numbers’ Jun 28, 2020
    • May 31, 2020 Livin’ With Metal: A peep into the Indian metal scene May 31, 2020
    • May 15, 2020 Nowhere But Here May 15, 2020
    • Apr 22, 2020 The homegrown blues of Lal And the People—An interview with frontman Rohit Lalwani Apr 22, 2020
    • Apr 19, 2020 Music from the Hills: Bipul Chettri’s latest release, ‘Neela Akash’ Apr 19, 2020
    • Mar 28, 2020 Music and the Virus: How the COVID-19 outbreak has disrupted the Indian Indie Scene. Mar 28, 2020
    • Mar 25, 2020 Music from the Hills: The Ladies of Indian Rock Mar 25, 2020
    • Jan 29, 2020 Music from the Hills: All efforts matter in the Indian indie scene Jan 29, 2020
    • Jan 22, 2020 Lucknow Music Diaries: Sticking to the setlist Jan 22, 2020
    • Dec 26, 2019 A Sort of Homecoming Dec 26, 2019
    • Dec 14, 2019 FutureDesi IndieSounds Dec 14, 2019
    • Dec 6, 2019 Wake Up and Listen Dec 6, 2019
    • Dec 1, 2019 Music from the Hills: The tale of the Worn-Out boot Dec 1, 2019
    • Nov 29, 2019 Rock-N-Honour-Rolls Nov 29, 2019
    • Nov 24, 2019 Meba’s Journey Nov 24, 2019
    • Nov 21, 2019 The Chakkar with Bangalore’s Live Music Scene Nov 21, 2019
    • Nov 18, 2019 Excerpt: ‘Music, Masti, Modernity: The Cinema of Nasir Husain’ Nov 18, 2019
    • Nov 13, 2019 Music from the Hills Nov 13, 2019
    • Nov 6, 2019 Band, Baaja, and Bachelor's Degrees Nov 6, 2019
  • Misc.
    • May 8, 2025 Maligned by Misinformation May 8, 2025
    • May 5, 2025 Stork Sister May 5, 2025
    • Mar 1, 2025 In Search of Shitala Mar 1, 2025
    • Feb 17, 2025 Love Without Freedom: The Shackles upon Indian Women in the Workforce Feb 17, 2025
    • Feb 2, 2025 Cannabis and the Kumbh Feb 2, 2025
    • Jan 9, 2025 The Trees of Our Land Jan 9, 2025
    • Dec 9, 2024 Calcutta’s Chromosome, Hidden in Plain Sight Dec 9, 2024
    • Nov 23, 2024 The ‘Sentinels’ of Tomorrow Nov 23, 2024
    • Nov 10, 2024 In Language, Colonial Kolkata Stays Alive Nov 10, 2024
    • Sep 15, 2024 The Legend of Café Samovar, Mumbai’s Melting Pot of Cozy Camaraderie Sep 15, 2024
    • Jul 25, 2024 The Summer of Heat Islands Jul 25, 2024
    • Apr 25, 2024 Where is the Work? Apr 25, 2024
    • Feb 10, 2024 Snowless in the Himalaya Feb 10, 2024
    • Nov 29, 2023 Troubled Waters Nov 29, 2023
    • Feb 12, 2023 The Growth Malaise Feb 12, 2023
    • May 4, 2022 The Decline That Wasn’t May 4, 2022
    • Apr 5, 2022 The Maya and the Meta Apr 5, 2022
    • Mar 8, 2022 Empowering The Marginalised Mar 8, 2022
    • Jan 19, 2022 Should we ever return to our offices again? Jan 19, 2022
    • Dec 13, 2021 Do You Hate This Ad? Spotify and the Self-Reflexivity of Advertising Dec 13, 2021
    • Oct 18, 2021 What Makes a Modern Indian Minimalist? Oct 18, 2021
    • Jul 23, 2021 Mental Health in India: Purity, Pollution, Caste, and Mental Health Jul 23, 2021
    • Jun 17, 2021 Selective Scarcity: A Queer Lens at India’s Health Care Imbalance Jun 17, 2021
    • Jun 11, 2021 A Tale of Two Pandemics: COVID and Disinformation Jun 11, 2021
    • Jun 1, 2021 How Happy Is Your Timeline? Jun 1, 2021
    • May 18, 2021 Reclaiming the Lost House of Oudh May 18, 2021
    • Mar 16, 2021 Mental Health in India: Academic Spaces as Centres of Well-Being and Resilience Mar 16, 2021
    • Feb 9, 2021 The Uncredited Authors of India’s Growth Story Feb 9, 2021
    • Jan 24, 2021 ‘We Shall Not Live Half-Asleep’: Glimpses of Revolution from the Farmers’ Protests Jan 24, 2021
    • Jan 9, 2021 Mental Health in India: Gaps in mental health care for India’s LGBTQ+ community Jan 9, 2021
    • Nov 26, 2020 Mental Health in India: Religion and mental health distress Nov 26, 2020
    • Oct 31, 2020 India’s Prevention Paradox Oct 31, 2020
    • Oct 13, 2020 Mental Health in India: Capitalism, Productivity and Mental Health Distress  Oct 13, 2020
    • Oct 1, 2020 The Crumbling Fourth Pillar Oct 1, 2020
    • Sep 5, 2020 Mental Health in India: Looking Through a Filter of Colonialism and Casteism Sep 5, 2020
    • Aug 31, 2020 India's Wait for the COVID-19 Vaccine and Economic Concerns Post-Lockdown Aug 31, 2020
    • Aug 13, 2020 What Happens After the Vaccine? Aug 13, 2020
    • Jul 7, 2020 The Disaster and the Displaced Jul 7, 2020
    • Jun 15, 2020 Stained Khaki: The roots and aggravations of police brutality Jun 15, 2020
    • May 19, 2020 The Vulnerable 50% May 19, 2020
    • Apr 30, 2020 The Mahatma in Mussoorie Apr 30, 2020
    • Apr 7, 2020 Mussoorie Writers: Tales From Sikander Hall by Lillian Skinner Singh Apr 7, 2020
    • Apr 2, 2020 The Indian Government Handbook to Fighting Coronavirus: An illustrated six-step journey Apr 2, 2020
    • Mar 11, 2020 The Redesign of New Delhi’s Central Vista, and the Colonial Stripes of Narendra Modi Mar 11, 2020
    • Feb 16, 2020 The Manic Medley of the Maximum City Feb 16, 2020
    • Dec 29, 2019 The Indigestible Politics and Violence of Food in India Dec 29, 2019
  • Photography
    • Mar 27, 2025 The City as Erised’s Mirror: A Vision of Kolkata Mar 27, 2025
    • Feb 23, 2025 Contours of a City: Poems and Photos by Sufia Khatoon Feb 23, 2025
    • Feb 8, 2025 Basant Panchami, Sufi Tunes, and Devotion: A tale of harmony at Nizamuddin Dargah Feb 8, 2025
    • Mar 22, 2024 A Symbiotic Dance of Survival and Reverence Mar 22, 2024
    • Jan 16, 2024 In Goa, Serendipity and the Self Jan 16, 2024
    • Nov 25, 2023 In Ramnagar, the Folk Theatre of the Ramlila Continues its Centuries-Old Traditions Nov 25, 2023
    • Aug 16, 2023 Bites from the Market Aug 16, 2023
    • Feb 9, 2023 Every Door, A Tender Veil: A photo-essay by Poornima Laxmeshwar Feb 9, 2023
    • Nov 15, 2022 On The Gateways of Faith: Divinity and the Damned in Haridwar Nov 15, 2022
    • Aug 1, 2022 A Searing Little Fire in Mumbai Aug 1, 2022
    • Jun 24, 2022 A colourful passage through time: Photos from Fort Kochi Jun 24, 2022
    • Feb 12, 2022 A Havoc in the Himalaya Feb 12, 2022
    • Dec 18, 2021 Breath, Life, and Connection – A Photo Essay Dec 18, 2021
    • Aug 28, 2021 Travelling Without Footprints Aug 28, 2021
    • Jul 30, 2021 The Backwaters Jul 30, 2021
    • Jun 15, 2021 Kolkata Hiraeth, A Longing for Home Jun 15, 2021
    • Jun 9, 2021 Pardesi Pahadi: Splendour and Survival at Sahastra Tal Jun 9, 2021
    • Apr 21, 2021 The Living Storybooks of Kolkata – A Photo Essay Apr 21, 2021
    • Mar 9, 2021 Fishing Along the Coringa Mangrove Forests Mar 9, 2021
    • Feb 17, 2021 The Drift Feb 17, 2021
    • Feb 11, 2021 Winter in the Old City Feb 11, 2021
    • Jan 24, 2021 ‘We Shall Not Live Half-Asleep’: Glimpses of Revolution from the Farmers’ Protests Jan 24, 2021
    • Jan 13, 2021 Everyday Rajasthan Travel Photo Contest 2020: The Winners! Jan 13, 2021
    • Dec 28, 2020 Pardesi Pahadi: Avalanche on Apharwat Dec 28, 2020
    • Dec 20, 2020 The Outsider Dec 20, 2020
    • Nov 29, 2020 Bombayscapes - A Photo Gallery Nov 29, 2020
    • Oct 25, 2020 Sonepur Mela: At the Festival of Beasts Oct 25, 2020
    • Oct 21, 2020 Living Memories: A Glimpse of the history at Landour Bazaar Oct 21, 2020
    • Sep 14, 2020 Ghats, Gullies, and Ganga Sep 14, 2020
    • Jun 17, 2020 Pardesi Pahadi: Five books on the Himalaya and other Mountains Jun 17, 2020
    • Jun 4, 2020 What the storm brought home: A photo-essay from Nagapattinam Jun 4, 2020
    • Jun 2, 2020 Shyama's Cattle: Ode to a Himalayan friendship Jun 2, 2020
    • Apr 25, 2020 Isolated With The Sky Apr 25, 2020
    • Apr 10, 2020 Pardesi Pahadi: Ascent to Bandarpunch - In search for wonders, real and imagined Apr 10, 2020
    • Mar 19, 2020 Student's Corner: Pondy - The South Indian Gem Mar 19, 2020
    • Mar 14, 2020 Indian Railways: A photographic journey Mar 14, 2020
    • Mar 9, 2020 Barsana Bhog: The legendary Holi celebrations of Braj Mar 9, 2020
    • Mar 1, 2020 Northeast Delhi Riots and the charred smell of Fear Mar 1, 2020
    • Feb 27, 2020 Pardesi Pahadi: Kedar Tal - Finding magic in the Himalaya Feb 27, 2020
    • Feb 11, 2020 Pardesi Pahadi: The frozen, lost paths to Bali Pass Feb 11, 2020
    • Feb 5, 2020 Achieving Zero: The loud silences of art from the 2020 India Art Fair Feb 5, 2020
    • Jan 3, 2020 Pardesi Pahadi: Nanda Devi - A glimpse of the Himalayan Goddess Jan 3, 2020
    • Dec 19, 2019 The Forgotten Town of Opulent Seths Dec 19, 2019
    • Nov 8, 2019 This Is Goa Nov 8, 2019
  • Art
    • Jan 6, 2025 Fate, Fortune, and a Life-Affirming Encounter with the Work of Navjot Altaf Jan 6, 2025
    • Dec 25, 2024 A River to Flow Through Us All Dec 25, 2024
    • Apr 13, 2024 Queens of the Hills Apr 13, 2024
    • Apr 11, 2024 Spiritual Homecomings: Shalmali Shetty on her curatorial project “The nights will follow the days” Apr 11, 2024
    • Jan 16, 2024 In Goa, Serendipity and the Self Jan 16, 2024
    • Oct 21, 2023 Ink(ed) on Flat Surfaces: A Show on Studio Practice Oct 21, 2023
    • Oct 18, 2023 With Great Ease: A Celebration of T.S. Satyan’s Photographic Gaze Oct 18, 2023
    • Jul 3, 2023 Toy Story Jul 3, 2023
    • Mar 10, 2023 An International Collage of Art and Artists Mar 10, 2023
    • Feb 7, 2023 The Beauty of Two Souls: The Rise of Customized Art Feb 7, 2023
    • Jan 10, 2023 At Manchester, a permanent celebration of the South Asian Diaspora Jan 10, 2023
    • Dec 24, 2022 A Century of Artistic Synthesis and Reinterpretations Dec 24, 2022
    • Dec 2, 2022 On the Crossroads of Art and Spirituality Dec 2, 2022
    • Nov 26, 2022 Gopi Gajwani, a Modernist product of Partition Nov 26, 2022
    • Nov 7, 2022 Metaphors for Larger Ruptures: The collected art of WOMAN IS AS WOMEN DOES Nov 7, 2022
    • Nov 2, 2022 The Artist and The Anthropocene Nov 2, 2022
    • Sep 8, 2022 The Cityscape in M. Pravat’s ‘Concrete Dusk’ Sep 8, 2022
    • Jul 28, 2022 A telling of our times: The art of Ashok Bhowmick Jul 28, 2022
    • Jul 21, 2022 Indian Art Under the Company’s Shadow Jul 21, 2022
    • May 19, 2022 Gameplay with an Artistic Heart May 19, 2022
    • May 14, 2022 Connecting the Dots: The art of Manisha Gera Baswani May 14, 2022
    • Apr 30, 2022 A Celebration of 1,300 years of Islamic Art Apr 30, 2022
    • Apr 18, 2022 ‘I Float, You Rise’: The art of Rahul Chauhan Apr 18, 2022
    • Apr 16, 2022 TRUTH DREAM: Breaking Gender Norms through a Phantasmagoria of Lived Desire Apr 16, 2022
    • Apr 9, 2022 Art and Ecology: Listening to the voice of art collectives in Assam Apr 9, 2022
    • Apr 7, 2022 Flights of Fancy: Kothandaraman Sambandan’s Journey in Art Apr 7, 2022
    • Feb 14, 2022 The Dark Webs of Jogen Chowdhury Feb 14, 2022
    • Feb 1, 2022 Full Circle: Ahlawat Gunjan on the Wondrous World of Book Cover Design Feb 1, 2022
    • Jan 10, 2022 The Women and the Safety Pin Jan 10, 2022
    • Jan 7, 2022 A Mumbai inspired by ‘The New Yorker’ Jan 7, 2022
    • Dec 21, 2021 With ‘Episteme’, Ten Indian Artists Translate the Language of Now Dec 21, 2021
    • Dec 10, 2021 The Studio as a Canvas: Sanoop P.C.’s Poetry of Impermanence Dec 10, 2021
    • Nov 5, 2021 The dawdling, gentle beauty of Aman Poddar’s patterns Nov 5, 2021
    • Oct 1, 2021 Full Circle: Shaleen Wadhwana on Art History in a Digital World Oct 1, 2021
    • Sep 28, 2021 Distorted Images: Caste, Sexuality, and History in the art of Keerthana Chandragiri Sep 28, 2021
    • Aug 26, 2021 Full Circle: Amardeep Behl on the Narrative Experiences in Space Aug 26, 2021
    • Jul 27, 2021 Raja Ravi Varma, Retold for Children Jul 27, 2021
    • May 23, 2021 The Transformational Joy of Art: In memoriam of Shakti Maira May 23, 2021
    • Dec 5, 2020 Life in the Bubbles: Dhruvi Acharya’s Pandemic Art Dec 5, 2020
    • Nov 17, 2020 Leaving Behind the Stardust: Inder Salim and a life sacrificed to art Nov 17, 2020
    • May 7, 2020 Masterpieces Under Our Feet May 7, 2020
    • Feb 5, 2020 Achieving Zero: The loud silences of art from the 2020 India Art Fair Feb 5, 2020
  • Editorial
    • May 19, 2024 Art, Defanged May 19, 2024
    • Mar 5, 2022 Grief at the Ghats Mar 5, 2022
    • Mar 31, 2020 Going Viral Mar 31, 2020
    • Jan 1, 2020 Who will chowkidar the chowkidars? Jan 1, 2020
    • Nov 5, 2019 Welcome to The Chakkar Nov 5, 2019
  • Theatre
    • Apr 8, 2024 Jyoti Dogra’s MAAS: The Body and Its Desires Apr 8, 2024
    • Nov 25, 2023 In Ramnagar, the Folk Theatre of the Ramlila Continues its Centuries-Old Traditions Nov 25, 2023
    • Aug 24, 2022 A Play on Blurred Sexual Lines—Now in India Aug 24, 2022
    • Dec 4, 2021 Full Circle: Greeny Francis on Theatre as Intervention Dec 4, 2021
    • Dec 1, 2021 The Market and The Jester Dec 1, 2021
    • Sep 18, 2021 Chennai is Joking Around Sep 18, 2021
    • Sep 4, 2021 Love, Law, and Literature: A conversation with Danish Sheikh Sep 4, 2021
    • Jan 3, 2021 Dancing In Deadlock: Kerala’s renowned Kathakali artistes have struggled to survive post the pandemic Jan 3, 2021
    • Oct 7, 2020 Hanging on to the Trapeze Oct 7, 2020
    • Aug 8, 2020 ‘We need to keep changing to survive’ – Virajas Kulkarni on the future of Indian theatre Aug 8, 2020
    • Jan 11, 2020 All The Stage's A World Jan 11, 2020
    • Nov 16, 2019 "Theatre has given me the right attitude and the ability to know and understand the other person" Nov 16, 2019
  • Podcast
    • Dec 17, 2022 The Best of 2022 - What’s The Chakkar? Dec 17, 2022
    • Nov 10, 2022 G.N. Devy, Ahmer, and Laal Singh Chaddha - What’s The Chakkar? Nov 10, 2022
    • Sep 19, 2022 Jayanth Kaikini, Darlings, and Parekh & Singh - What’s The Chakkar? Sep 19, 2022
    • Aug 18, 2022 Shrayana Bhattacharya, Blackstratblues, and Indian Predator - What’s The Chakkar? Aug 18, 2022
    • Jul 16, 2022 Dinesh C. Sharma, Goatsmoke, and Panchayat - What’s The Chakkar? Jul 16, 2022
    • Jun 16, 2022 Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar, Geetanjali Shree, and Shikhar - What’s The Chakkar? Jun 16, 2022
    • May 23, 2022 The Revisit Project, Guilty Minds, and Nev March - What’s The Chakkar? May 23, 2022
    • Apr 26, 2022 Josy Joseph, Rocket Boys, and Bloodywood - What’s The Chakkar? Apr 26, 2022
    • Mar 25, 2022 Mir Kashif Iqbal, Gehraiyaan, and Chandan Pandey - What’s The Chakkar? Mar 25, 2022
    • Feb 20, 2022 Krupa Ge, 83, and Aditi Ramesh - What’s The Chakkar? Feb 20, 2022
    • Jan 22, 2022 Decoupled, Amyt Datta, and Neel Mukherjee - What’s The Chakkar? Jan 22, 2022
    • Dec 30, 2021 The Best of 2021 - What’s The Chakkar? Dec 30, 2021
    • Nov 29, 2021 Mocaine, R.K. Narayan, and Sardar Udham - What’s The Chakkar? Nov 29, 2021
    • Oct 28, 2021 Wendy Doniger, Lagaan, and Dot. - What’s The Chakkar? Oct 28, 2021
    • Sep 26, 2021 Tinctures, The Disciple, and Suchitra Vijayan - What’s The Chakkar? Sep 26, 2021
    • Aug 24, 2021 S. Hareesh, Tejas, and The Family Man - What’s The Chakkar? Aug 24, 2021
    • Jul 25, 2021 Ray, Irfana & Taslina, and Albert Camus - What’s The Chakkar? Jul 25, 2021
    • Jun 25, 2021 Ramya Pothuri, Peter Wohlleben, and Pagglait - What's The Chakkar? Jun 25, 2021
    • May 21, 2021 Namit Arora, Project Mishram, and OK Computer - What's The Chakkar? May 21, 2021
    • Apr 14, 2021 Punk on Toast, Lori Gottlieb, and Deshdrohi - What's The Chakkar? Apr 14, 2021
    • Mar 24, 2021 Abdon Mech, AK VS AK, and Annie Zaidi - What's The Chakkar? Mar 24, 2021
    • Feb 22, 2021 Welcome Home, When Chai Met Toast, and Aravind Adiga - What's The Chakkar? Feb 22, 2021
    • Jan 22, 2021 Pradeep Damodaran, Lifafa, and Cargo - What's The Chakkar? Jan 22, 2021
    • Dec 18, 2020 Divine, Samit Basu, and Scam 1992 - What’s The Chakkar? Dec 18, 2020
    • Nov 20, 2020 Khwaab, Nisha Susan, and Mirzapur - What’s The Chakkar? Nov 20, 2020
  • Full Circle
    • Feb 1, 2022 Full Circle: Ahlawat Gunjan on the Wondrous World of Book Cover Design Feb 1, 2022
    • Dec 4, 2021 Full Circle: Greeny Francis on Theatre as Intervention Dec 4, 2021
    • Oct 21, 2021 Full Circle: Lakshya Datta, The Voice of Romance Oct 21, 2021
    • Oct 1, 2021 Full Circle: Shaleen Wadhwana on Art History in a Digital World Oct 1, 2021
    • Aug 26, 2021 Full Circle: Amardeep Behl on the Narrative Experiences in Space Aug 26, 2021
  • Golchakkar
    • Oct 24, 2021 Golchakkar: Dispatches from Australia Oct 24, 2021
    • Sep 16, 2021 Golchakkar: The Evolving Pathways of Publishing Sep 16, 2021
    • Aug 12, 2021 Golchakkar: Indian Literature from a Queer Lens Aug 12, 2021
    • Jul 19, 2021 Golchakkar: Dispatches from Latin America Jul 19, 2021
    • Jun 19, 2021 Golchakkar: Graphic Narratives from India Jun 19, 2021
    • May 16, 2021 Golchakkar: Poetry and the Pandemic May 16, 2021
    • Apr 4, 2021 Golchakkar: Imagining Place in Literature Apr 4, 2021
    • Mar 14, 2021 Golchakkar: Mother Tongues in a Global Context Mar 14, 2021
    • Feb 7, 2021 Golchakkar: Indian Dispatches from Europe Feb 7, 2021
    • Jan 18, 2021 Golchakkar: Indian Poetry from the Lockdown Jan 18, 2021
    • Dec 12, 2020 Golchakkar: Experiments in Indian Flash Fiction Dec 12, 2020
    • Nov 15, 2020 Golchakkar: The Non-Indian in Indian Literature Nov 15, 2020
    • Oct 19, 2020 Golchakkar: Open Your Eyes—Poetry’s Response to Climate Change Oct 19, 2020
  • Film
    • Sep 22, 2020 Pardesi Pahadi: Raja’s Hut and the Kashmir of Iron Khan Sep 22, 2020
  • Student's Corner
    • Jun 8, 2020 Student's Corner: Back to Wasseypur Jun 8, 2020
    • May 12, 2020 Student's Corner: Sports as a unifying element in India May 12, 2020
    • Mar 19, 2020 Student's Corner: Pondy - The South Indian Gem Mar 19, 2020
    • Dec 9, 2019 Student's Corner: How the Bhagwad Gita can be a bestseller for children Dec 9, 2019
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