Poems of Resistance
By Chandramohan S
Three poems of resistance
Manipur Attack: When Journalists Work as a PR-Machine of the State
By Cafe Dissensus
While such news websites might produce some alternative reports and offer fresh perspectives, they don’t function as media watchdogs and don’t want to rub one of their own on the wrong shoulder.
Rabindranath Tagore’s ‘The Broken Home’ (Nastanirh): Chapter 3
By Lopa Banerjee
An inexplicable anger began to brew within Amal. He held Charu responsible for demeaning his cherished writings by presenting them to a man as apathetic to literature as his brother, Bhupati. It dawned on Charu instantly and the realization pained her.
Remembering in English
By Rashida Murphy
Somewhere in the inherited cacophony of our multilingual selves, there is room for voicing something that can only be rendered in a foreign language.
Do we have the LANGUAGE to talk about Housing Discrimination against Muslims?
By Mosarrap H. Khan
You might howl in abstraction. But the pain of being denied an apartment is concrete. And trying to express that concrete pain in abstract language is a reductive endeavor.
Rabindranath Tagore’s ‘The Broken Home’ (Nastanirh): Chapter 2
By Lopa Banerjee
In the evening, when Charu became infuriated to the point of complete silence, Amal discreetly dropped from his pocket a hand-written note.
Rabindranath Tagore’s ‘The Broken Home’ (Nastanirh): Chapter 1
By Lopa Banerjee
Bhupati was young, passionate about his editorial work, current affairs and world politics to the point of addiction, and there was no dearth of people to arouse his passion for dissenting on an everyday basis.
Idea of India Collective: Evaluating One Year of Modi Government
By Idea of India Collective
We will on May 16 and 17 again bring together many leading public intellectuals, artistes, human rights, and other activists to evaluate soberly the actual performance of the new government as it completes its first year in office.
Civil Servants: The Feudal Lords of Our Time
By Amartya Banerjee
One of the most enduring imperial hand-outs is the legacy of paternalistic rule. Without going into the historical details, we could say it assumes the rulers as the caring father and the subjects as the errant children. Like all children, they too don’t know what is good or bad for them and, hence, must be told.
Poem: Curry
By Esha Biswas
A Poem
Book Review: Joyce Yarrow and Arindam Roy’s ‘Rivers Run Back’
By Bhaswati Ghosh
In ‘Rivers Run Back’, the reader journeys through several temporal locations – Allahabad, Shamirpet, Dubai, New York, and Vancouver. But this isn’t a voyage limited to space and time; it is one that drills down into the inner recesses of the characters’ mind.
The Ruins at Tughlakabad
By Goirick Brahmachari
A Poem
Cafe Dissensus Everyday 