The culture of fetishising death seeks to eternalise the period of grieving, ensuring that death does not simply occur to the ones who die.
Meghalee Mitra
Et Tu, Barkha? The Tragedy of Losing Feminist Icons to Corporate Mentality
Dutt equates the path to success with the erasure of feminine markers in female lives.
Behind NIFT’s Gag Order: Students Protest Classist, Authoritarian Diktats
With a 'gag order' preceding announcements over fee payments, students speak of an institution with no seeming empathy for middle or lower class students.
‘Betaal’ Is a Four-Part Tutorial on How Forced Wokeness Falls Flat
At some points, 'Betaal' is so bad that it’s good. In the very least, this isn’t the worst thing Shah Rukh has put his name on.
Black Market Water: What Post-Amphan Dystopia Looks Like
The rules are different, the new ‘normal’ is nothing like we had ever imagined.
Rattled and Shook: Cyclone Amphan Put Death Two Feet Away From Us
For six hours straight, death stared us right in the face. But not everybody was lucky enough to maintain that gap – 72 people have been reported dead so far.
Kanan Gill’s ‘Yours Sincerely’ and the Complications of Growing Up
Gill’s latest special represents a journey that most of us have made.