Milli Gazette and Its Misogyny
By Kouser Fathima
But sadly, the people at Milli Gazette are trying to push a regressive ideology, wherein the victim is blamed for her rape. In the name of honor, the portal seems to be indirectly justifying the act.
Travel: Subhas Sarobar, Kolkata
By Nishi Pulugurtha
I was told that the place was once maintained well. The water of the lake was clean, the green foliage trimmed, and the flowers were in full bloom. Maybe things would change for the better here, some day.
Five Poems
By Karthik Venkatesh
Your faux rebellion
convinced no one.
Your social conscience
was a smokescreen
for your ideological vacuousness.
Film-Review: The Politics of Role-Playing in Kaushik Ganguly’s film, ‘Bastu- Shaap’
By Srirupa Dhar
Indian film director Kaushik Ganguly’s Bengali film, Bastu-Shaap (2016), is a psychological drama that gives us an insight into the complexities of both human minds and relationships. Role-playing is portrayed as a major component in retaining these relationships. And the politics embedded in this role-playing powerfully betrays the true human being beneath the façade.
Thoughts on Sikh Genocide in 1984
By Faiq Faizan
It would have been easier for the Sikhs to decide that only their community will be served Langar in the Gurudwaras. But they chose otherwise. Even today the gates are open to everyone.
NDTV and our collective ‘liberal’ orgasm
By Mosarrap H. Khan
If the current government has the audacity to trample our media, the responsibility lies with our ‘soft’ liberals as well. Until we have a genuinely liberal media in India, Ravish Kumar’s histrionics would only periodically enable our collective orgasm.
On Literature
By Sayani Sinha
If literature assumes and acts on a kind of subjective knowledge of objective reality, philosophy puts into question the legitimacy of such an assumption. It purports to study the relationship between literature – as a representation and a mode of representation of objective reality – and objective reality as such.
No Diwali for them
By Mosarrap H. Khan
In this crumbling, decaying metropolis – Mumbai – where every moment is an assault on your olfactory lobes, people are always ready to share their stories. You also realize that this restless city doesn’t have listeners to their stories. People are ready to share bits of their life, their despair, their hope with you.
Miracles Minus Nihilism: A view through “Cosmic Self”
By Mir Sajad
This is not a treatise on God, that’s beyond my scope and beyond anybody else as well. But He has largely made the things to fall into perfect places – I am absolutely sure about it.
Islamic Perspectives on Sustainable Development
By Muhammed Abdul Bari
The ultimate responsibility for right action lies with the individual, whose actions will be accounted on the Day of Judgment, for what he did in his life regardless of what the governing authority and their various administrative and legal agencies exhorted him to do. The environmental protection and conservation of resources are a part of Islamic law and duty of Muslims.
Book Review: Josy Joseph’s ‘A Feast of Vultures: The Hidden Business of Democracy in India’
By Karthik Venkatesh
The doings of Naveen Jindal of Jindal Steel in Chattisgarh to lay his hands on its precious mineral resources and Naresh Goyal of Jet Airways to control the skies above us is to be read again and again. It is a telling lesson in the serious consequences of unbridled capitalism.
Poem: Kashmir
By Faakirah Irfan “Write with your eyes like painters, with your ears like musicians, with your feet like dancers. You are the truth sayer with quill…
Cafe Dissensus Everyday 