A lot of good things also happened in 2020; events that might, in the course of time, become more instrumental than the pandemic itself.
Politics
Dilli and Its Fragile Buildings
A poem on the Central Vista Redevelopment project, monkeys and leaders.
John le Carré Told the Truth About Cold War Espionage When Few Others Would
Carré, who died last Saturday at the age of 89, wrote novels like 'The Spy Who Came in From the Cold' that rejected the glamour and ritz of Cold War–era …
Meme and the Mahatma: Gandhian Silence and the Social Media Age
Our failure to gauge the importance and profundity of Gandhiji’s silence perhaps has to do with the fact that we happen to live in an opinionated, social media-driven and noisy …
Christopher Hitchens: The Gadfly the World Needs Today
Sometimes brash, always brilliant, but never boring, Christopher Hitchens was an enigma our present has no parallel for.
‘The Great Indian Tee and Snakes’: A Tragic Tale of Black Bindis and White Skull Caps
At a time when laws are being formulated against 'love jihad', Kritika Pandey’s short story is an apt read to dive into.
Literature and Obscenity: The Ghost of ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’
In the contemporary times when the government wishes to regulate OTT platforms, are we still haunted by the famous trial of the D.H. Lawrence's 'controversial' book?