It may seem odd that we get pleasure from sad songs.
Tag: nostalgia
Museum of Memories
Of long conversations over a sugary cup of tea and mellow afternoons extending into starry, melancholic nights.
Don’t Give in to the Culture Industry’s Appeals to Nostalgia
Tapping into nostalgia is a fundamentally conservative project, designed to arrest the future that we still desperately need to construct.
Review | A Poetic Journey Back Home
Siddharth Dasgupta has the heart of a nomad and it comes across beautifully in his collection titled 'A Movable East'.
Spaces Shared, Dreams Made: The Story of My Ancestral House
Muslims in our part Kannur practice the ‘beena marriage’ wherein the husband joins the wife in her ancestral home but holds little to no power in the household.
Chasing Death Drive in an Oxford Year
A personal poetic piece on experiencing cultural alienation and isolation in the city of dreaming spires.
Memories: Living, Breathing Gateways to Our Past
On my Dida's death and the constant fear of losing your loved ones.
Waiting
A poem on two grandfathers waiting for their children and grandchildren – one in 1947 and the other in 2023.
How Did Everything Change?
'From blue skies to narrow minds, from green grass to bigoted adults.'
