Downton Abbey: A Journey of Womanhood
By Srirupa Dhar
Women are no longer relegated to the household. Both rich and poor women, to the shock of many upper class conservatives, are starting to go out into the world and deciding their own futures.
The Independent Intellectual?: A Response to Professor Makarand Paranjape’s Lecture on Nationalism
By Debaditya Bhattacharya
Interestingly, what Gandhi does in the text of Hind Swaraj is to question the legitimacy of the very form of the state – something that Professor Paranjape’s hermeneutic model ironically ends up warning us against.
Two Poems
By Yash Pandit
Babri – Muzaffarnagar – Godhra – Dadri,
The quarrel of colours has bled here too, in my city.
Saffron cuts green; Green slices saffron.
But humans mostly bleed red, in my city.
Indian Television has regressed
By Kouser Fathima
The makers of these serials forget that Humlog and Buniyad both entertained and enlightened the audience. Those were not mere shows but experiences which viewers could relate to and remember for years.
The moral economy of the Indian Left: The JNU crisis and the ‘progressive Indians’!
By Idrees Kanth
But do the Indian progressives even ever acknowledge that their social location, their class position, their family genealogy, their vast networks, etc. play an important role in making it all possible? The very question I was trying to ask in the essay!
Student Concerns: Research Scholars of India Are in Great Trouble
By Abu Saleh
This plea might sound a little emotional but this is the ground reality of the researchers in India. Sometime many wonder and regret their choice of research as a career over other promising career options, which wouldn’t have at least left them in a situation like this.
Mumbai Chinatown and Bitter Memories of the Chinese-Indian
By Sameer Khan
After the War with India in 1962, there was a general hostility towards the Chinese-Indians all over India. The local people looked upon them with suspicion. The Chinese-Indians were considered the fifth column by the government and many were sent to internment camps.
Tolerant protest of Kerala Muslims against blasphemy
By Muhammad Ashraf & Abdul Hameed
Mathrubhumi never allowed a column or space for minority Mappila Muslims and their voices. And it had neither supported the Mappila uprising nor campaigned against the British suppression of the Mappila uprising, which was mainly staged by Muslims in the Malabar region in 1921.
Book Review: Sanjeev Sethi’s ‘This Summer and That Summer’
By Rashida Murphy
These poems are celebratory and melancholic, cheerful and cynical, precise and universal, and I recommend this collection highly. I look forward to more from this talented and amiable voice.
Nabanita Dev Sen: The Feisty Feminist, Humorist of Post-Colonial Bengali Literature
By Lopa Banerjee
Nabanita’s work, starting from her first collection of poems, Prothom Pratyay, to her wide variety of novels, short stories, personal essays and humor writings originated from this spirit of knowledge and self-expression, while she chose to reflect on the social, political, psychological problems of the post-colonial, middle-class Bengalis, often using women as central characters.
After 48 hours
By Nishi Pulugurtha
We did go out on weekends, to her favourite restaurant, to the local shops, to do shopping, to malls. She enjoyed it all. But then, I needed to hold her hand as if she were a little child who could be lost in the crowds.
Five Poems
By Daniel de Culla
Drum-rolling that Paganism is the first
And was destroyed
By the savage and cruel Christians
Cafe Dissensus Everyday 