Deepa P. Mohanan, a scholar belonging to the Dalit community, has alleged that she was discriminated against on the basis of her caste for the last ten years.
More Than Just a Wife and Diarist: Sophia Tolstoy and Her Fiction
A sustained reading of Sophia Tolstoy’s fiction has the potential to rescue her from the binaries of passive victimhood and villainy.
The Curtain
'You could think of dusting cobwebs, but curtains are never cleaned. You hang them and then they stay there...'
‘Sooryavanshi’ Is a Typical Super-Cop-Fights-Nasty-Terrorists Drama
For the most part, this Rohit Shetty film is the usual high-decibel film, but it has some surprising touches.
We Need a Socialist Spotify
Music should not be simply content used to sell advertising to corporate brands.
‘Dungeons & Dragons’ Is a Case Study in How Capitalism Kills Art
The story of 'Dungeons & Dragons' isn’t just about nerds creating a wildly popular game and losing control of it. It’s also about how the dictates of the free …
If Others Make Me, Then What Am I?
A poem on being a young Muslim woman in India.
In Row Over Alleged Casteism, One PhD Scholar Has Been on Hunger Strike For a Week
Deepa P. Mohanan alleges that, for the past ten years, the director of her institute in Kottayam has been stalling her education because of her Dalit identity.
Aloo Muri, the Street Food From Shillong Which Commands a Cult-like Following
Without the influence of migrant workers in the region, it is unlikely that the recipes of aloo muri could have passed down generations and developed over time.
How Spirit Photography Captured Love, Loss and Longing
Today viewers may be preoccupied by the methods used by spirit photographers, but spirit photographs had a notable impact on the bereaved who commissioned the portraits.