By MRIDULA KOSHY
Originally published in the June 2017 issue of the Caravan Magazine TUSHAR PUSHES AGAINST WEIGHT. He might be eight or nine years old, wiry, muscled. He has a large head with lashes of disproportionate length, even for his large eyes…
By KARTHIK VENKATESH
Originally published in the July 16, 2017 issue of Livemint Besides Indo-Aryan and Dravidian families of languages, which command the brute majority of speakers, there are three more such language families in India…
By KARTHIK VENKATESH
Originally published in the June 16, 2017 issue of Livemint Apart from harbouring many languages, India is also home to a bewildering array of scripts, many of which have fallen out of use…
Actress Mita Vashisht’s shout out to the capital city on her widely-anticipated dramatic reading performance of Mahasweta Devi’s ‘Behind the Bodice/Choli Ke Pichhey’ at the ILF Samanvay Translations Series - 13 July at 7pm at the Stein Auditorium, India Habitat Centre.
People, Power & Prophecy in the writing of Mahasweta Devi
By CHITRALEKHA BASU
Originally published in the September 2016 issue of the Caravan Magazine Sometime in 2000, I watched the actor Sabitri Heisnam play the eponymous protagonist in a stage adaptation of Mahasweta Devi’s 1976 story ‘Draupadi.’ Set against the backdrop of the Naxalite movement…
