Years after publication, Bhasha Singh's 'Unseen' remains the go-to account for a look into how pervasive and cruel this casteist practice is in India.
In a Korean Rapper’s Brush With Online Hatred, a Lesson For India
In the 2010s, Epik High's Tablo found himself – and his Stanford University degrees – the subject of what was probably one of the first truly enormous online hate …
Sharda University Suspends Prof for Question on Whether Fascism and Hindutva Have Similarities
On May 7, the university publicised the name of the professor and said that a faculty team formed to probe the matter found the question 'prima facie objectionable.'
Kashmir’s ‘First Female Butcher’
This first female butcher broke stereotypes by opening a meat shop in her village Chitru.
‘The Northman’ Is an Honorable Failure
I wanted to love Robert Eggers’s follow-up to 'The Witch' and 'The Lighthouse', but maybe a big-budget Viking saga just isn’t the right fit for a wonderful weirdo like …
Of Burnt Rice and Womanhood
The author’s take on womanhood and its subjective definitions, inspired by an anecdote narrated by her mother.
Mumma Has Five Hundred Sarees
'To pour a spoonful of her life and soul in each saree she drapes...'
Mother
The poem takes us through the various stages of a mother and her child’s life.
Review: Tracing the History of Punjab’s Nobility
In 'The Punjab Chiefs: The Lost Glory Of The Punjab Aristocracy In India And Pakistan', Bobby Singh Bansal manages to capture the very quintessence of the aureate period of Sikh …
‘Don’t Call Me a Hindu’
An essay on a recent dinner-table conversation I had with my family, and why I feel further and further away from my religion than ever before.