It was a Saturday night; I was out with a bunch of friends in one of the happening café-by-day/club-by-night places in the popular concentric-circled, white-columned Connaught Place of Lutyens’ Delhi. Dim lights, loud music, the rattle...
The need for translation can hardly be overemphasised in a multi-ethnic and plurilingual country like India with its 1652 mother tongues, twenty-two scheduled languages, fifteen scripts and twentyfive writing systems (1962 Census). India’s is...
We organised a workshop with Riju (Sumandro Chattapadhya) on 28 November at Khoj, through which young local residents narrated their gendered experience of neighbourhood public space, visibility, mobility and autonomy. Mental maps are visual...
The ever-inventive Indian imagination has been weaving an endless web of tales from time immemorial, right from the tribal tales and the fables of Panchatantra, the stories of Brihatkatha, Brihatkathamanjari, the Jataka tales and...
As the sense of something aesthetic always comes with a plurality so does the sense of a country, specially one like India which is a land of diversity with respect to its terrain and...
Let me begin with a story about books. Many of you might have read Ray Bradbury’s novel, Fahrenheit 451 or at least watched Francois Truffaut’s 1966 film of the same name based on the...
To Mother No. 1084 Dated: 28th July, 3:15 pm DOLONCHAMPA CHAKRABORTY Today afternoon onwards, whenever someone types your name in a search engine, phrases like “Mahasweta Devi passes away” are springing up. Aah! It...
“You’re not paying attention! There is no equation. This is the end. No future is possible. I can’t travel to a place that no longer exists.” “Find my mother then. She can help you...
“Come on hurry up, we’re close.” “How about you give me a moment? I’ll go back in time, find all about Pokemon and may be then I’ll understand the fever?” “We’re at the Nehru...
Let’s begin in medias res, the point where things take a turn. We are in 1980. The Bindu comes two score years after Syed Haider Raza’s joining the Nagpur School of Art with an...
