Financial burden on J&K municipal bodies in battling Covid-19
By Shafiq Ahmed
The urban local bodies of the J&K need special care in terms of financial package from the higher tier of government, especially during Covid-19.
Caught Between Dalgona Coffee and Sourdough Bread
By Isti Bhattacharya
In the new world we could encourage smaller businesses that pollute the world less, we could break up with our fast-paced consumerist lifestyles, we could vote for governments who care more about their migrant labourers.
Where is the Platform Campus of the University?
By Mithilesh Kumar
If indeed the new normal is online and digital university space, the state needs to provide the infrastructure for such a space to function.
Three Poems by Mitali Chakravarty
By Mitali Chakravarty
There is no life
no death
but ash grey
silence that pieces the land
to yours and mine.
Saint Petersburg: Mining the Muslim-Marrow of the City Founded on Bones
By Mujeeb Jaihoon
What was Tamerlane doing in the city of Peter? Geographically and chronologically, both kings had no remote chances of meeting. How then did the blue dome look like the Gur-e-Amir Mausoleum?
On Armchairs and Catastrophe
By Atreyee Majumder
Perhaps, we have been completely, totally, missing the point. That all the while, we were talking from our armchairs. Now that we are physically incarcerated in our armchairs, our inner wars are showing.
Poem: They say train tracks sing of home
By Umang Kumar
they say train tracks
sing of home
let us lay our heads down
lulled to sleep
in a steel cradle
COVID-19 and Pregnant Mothers: The ‘Missed Constituencies’
By Afsana
If the doctors are not willing to see the patients, how can they improve the maternal and child health?
Narrating the Political in Women
By Malvika Sharma
The Aurat in Schreiner, Wollstonecraft and Azmi are marching towards this freedom to become a part of a larger freedom for the mankind. They dream and aspire to be free so that there can be equality.
Book Review: Gita Viswanath’s ‘Twice It Happened’
By Narasimha Murthy
While the narration turns lethargic towards the end of the novel, Gita Viswanath’s Twice It Happened is a bold novel that keeps its readers in its thrall.
Poem: A Psalm of Hope
By Kavita Ezekiel Mendonca
Breathe Hope
In those who walk
Hundreds of miles
To reach their villages
And the warmth of their loves ones.
Short Story: The night of a schizophrenic
By Sabreen Ahmed
After some time she heard Ruhi giggling in the other room and she rushed to find that Sameer had returned home. He came with a week’s leave to sort out matters.
Cafe Dissensus Everyday 