Rethinking Death through the Lens of COVID-19
By Ramsha Aveen
Covid-19 fortunately or unfortunately has opened up new possibilities to explore the meaning of death; it has subtly demarcated the death from the performance of death.
Two Poems
By Namrata Pathak
Boundary-breaking is all about eating a pomegranate.
It is a juicy rebellion after all. In a portfolio of
succulent half-truths, circular, the end being the beginning,
she becomes her own food.
When blood-relatives wish for death
By Syed Kamran Ali
Some of his closest relatives were waiting for his death to reveal their true colours. They have just come out making bogus claims to his remaining property.
“Unto that Element”: Water Imagery in Nabina Das’ The House of ‘Twining Roses: Stories of the Mapped and the Unmapped’
By Malsawmi Jacob
In these four stories particularly, we see the image of water as a means of life and death, physical and (according to some beliefs) spiritual cleansing, and of unification of ideas and identities.
A Thought about MSS Pandian
By Aashique Iqbal
Vulnerability need not be a recipe for weakness, MSSP seemed to suggest, but an opportunity. By not inhabiting the national mainstream, vulnerable groups could question dominant ideas. This meant not only questioning our opponents but more so those who were close to us, even when they were sympathetic.
Going out on the Jericho road
By Achyut Dutt
There is this emptiness. The years are rolling by and soon you’ll be 60, an age when interesting things stop happening to you when you would like them to. The feeling that you have amounted to very little, that you have made no impact whatsoever on the community at large, has acquired a studio apartment at the back of your mind.
Satyajit Ray’s Apu Trilogy: Celebrating Life Through the Vision of Death
By Lopa Banerjee
Exuding a raw energy and supreme power of art, the entire Apu trilogy, on the surface level, traces the epic journey of the protagonist, Apu, from his impoverished rural boyhood to his years in Baranas and Calcutta and, finally, to his marriage and fatherhood. On a more metaphysical plane, the three films depict the unique life of the protagonist in various stages, repeatedly facing deep spiritual questions centered round the vision of death.
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