Golchakkar Series - The September panel of our virtual literary talk features Akshat Gupta and Kiriti Sengupta: The Evolving Pathways of Publishing.

Written of a time under armed occupation in the Kashmir valley, Farah Bashir’s memoir Rumours of Spring (2021) entwines the geographical and corporeal, the social and psychological, where the violence of the world remains painfully connected to the violence within. By Paromita Patranobish

‘I celebrate the ways in which queer people in the country have found ways of living with a law that hasn’t been particularly kind to their existence.’ Chintan Girish Modi interviews playwright/activist Danish Sheikh on his writing and the intersection of law, theatre, and queer sexuality.

In Moustache, S. Hareesh creates a modern Indian fable, a magical, evolving story that spreads its bushy tentacles far beyond the pages of the novel. By Karan Madhok

Golchakkar Series - The August panel of our virtual literary talk featured Ruth Vanita and Aditya Tiwari.: Indian Literature from a Queer Lens.

How does one introduce a child to the art of Raja Ravi Varma without being bogged down by the mounds of effusive praise and harsh criticism that have accumulated for over a century? Shobha Tharoor Srinivasan grapples with the question in Prince with a Paintbrush: The Story of Raja Ravi Varma.

In his 1938 book, author Suryakant Tripathi ‘Nirala’ memorialised the life of his friend Kulli Bhaat. While positioned as a progressive text, Nirala only ends up misrepresenting Bhaat. Saurabh Sharma analyses the text from its recent English translation A Life Misspent.

Golchakkar Series - The July panel of our virtual literary talk features Shelly Bhoil and Abhay K.: Dispatches from Latin America.

Through a selected, personal exploration—from Ismat Chughtai to “Ugra”, Jerry Pinto to Megha Majumdar and more—Saurabh Sharma traces the evolution of queer narratives in Indian fiction.

Golchakkar Series - The June panel of our virtual literary talk features Sharanya Manivannan, Varud Gupta, and Devapriya Roy: Graphic Narratives from India.

‘At a time when women have owned up to their narratives, are telling their stories, and forming solidarity, is it essential we enquire after male poets’ perspectives on feminism?’ Shamayita Sen discusses various aspects of the feminist struggle in her introduction to the collection Collegiality and Other Ballads: feminist poems by male and non-binary allies.

Jhumpa Lahiri’s Whereabouts is a novel of contradictions and duality, straddling an oppressive loneliness and a contented solitude, reclusiveness and intimacy, emptiness and fulfilment. By Sohel Sarkar