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A River to Flow Through Us All
In a famous verse, Kabir wrote, “The river that flows in you also flows in me.” Inspired by this grand uniting spirit of humanity, transgender artists of the Aravani Art Project presented their artwork in front of the Ganga in Varanasi. By Karan Madhok
The Curse of Beauty: The last letter of Gopi Kishan Purohit, my grandfather
Personal Essay by Aseem Sundan: ‘I remember both the man and his art as a montage of arbitrarily-arranged memories of all seasons and sentiments. Each unique in its way, some of them a fragment of his youth, some of his absurdity, some of his longing, and some just of beauty.’
Writing Ahead: The 2020s in Indian Fiction
At the recent Literary Festival in Jaipur, Karan Madhok spoke to a number of critically and commercially successful Indian writers about the future of fiction, on how the new wave will shape the novels of the next decade.
Photo series by Vijay Kowshik V P: Parallel Indias is about proximity without connection, a study of coexistence without recognition. These are images of adjacency, lives, symbols, and bodies, all occupying the same space, often within the same frame, without ever meeting.