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First Snow
12 September 2026
First Snow
12 September 2026

Short story by Karan Madhok: “Now, Lady, Miss: Please take the flowers and lean into your husband, like this, as if you are falling into him. Just a little. That’s why in English they say, ‘falling’ in love, no? Bas, gir jao unpar!”

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12 September 2026
Name Game
9 September 2026
Name Game
9 September 2026

What’s in a name? India has a long history of rebranding cities, streets, and buildings to reflect the political influence of the time. Instead of this empty tokenism, Vipin Labroo argues for the country to shift priorities towards its more pressing concerns.

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9 September 2026
Parallel Indias
6 September 2026
Parallel Indias
6 September 2026

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.

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6 September 2026
The Storm and the Storyteller: Arundhati Roy’s MOTHER MARY COMES TO ME
Literature The Chakkar 09/12/25 Literature The Chakkar 09/12/25

The Storm and the Storyteller: Arundhati Roy’s MOTHER MARY COMES TO ME

Through her memoir, Arundhati Roy revisits the foundry where her courage was forged, to the mother who didn’t prepare her for success, but inadvertently trained her to withstand both adoration and hatred to determine her survival. By Amritesh Mukherjee

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Arundhati Roy: A Troublemaker Needed for our Troubled Times
Literature The Chakkar 23/09/23 Literature The Chakkar 23/09/23

Arundhati Roy: A Troublemaker Needed for our Troubled Times

Arundhati Roy’s storytelling illuminates the desires to split open the human grids that characterize our world, and fulfil her yearning for a particular kind of homeland: a gentler, stiller, less hypocritical, and less transactional place. By Saba Karim Khan

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‘In fiction, one finds the opportunity to utter the unsayable’ – An exploration of Queer Literature from India
Literature The Chakkar 29/06/21 Literature The Chakkar 29/06/21

‘In fiction, one finds the opportunity to utter the unsayable’ – An exploration of Queer Literature from India

Through a selected, personal exploration—from Ismat Chughtai to “Ugra”, Jerry Pinto to Megha Majumdar and more—Saurabh Sharma traces the evolution of queer narratives in Indian fiction.

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