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  • Film/TV
    • 19 Jan 2025 ‘Shockingly Beautiful’: Ranking the Best of Bollywood in 2024 19 Jan 2025
    • 12 Jan 2025 The many dichotomies of ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT 12 Jan 2025
    • 23 Oct 2024 Lost Women and Found Freedoms 23 Oct 2024
    • 10 Sept 2024 Mythological Narratives, Scientific Imaginations 10 Sept 2024
    • 3 Sept 2024 The Grand Cinema of Taking Offense 3 Sept 2024
    • 22 Jul 2024 Gone Girls 22 Jul 2024
    • 24 Jun 2024 No Monkeying Around 24 Jun 2024
    • 4 Jun 2024 A Caste-Ridden Society, in Checkmate 4 Jun 2024
    • 19 May 2024 Art, Defanged 19 May 2024
    • 25 Mar 2024 The Interplay of Fear and Courage in WHILE WE WATCHED 25 Mar 2024
    • 19 Mar 2024 Luck, Chance, and Cinema 19 Mar 2024
    • 8 Mar 2024 Silver Screen Circus 8 Mar 2024
    • 2 Mar 2024 Chef’s Kiss 2 Mar 2024
    • 1 Feb 2024 DRY DAY: A Tale of Political and Personal Prohibitions 1 Feb 2024
    • 28 Dec 2023 GOLDFISH: An Intimate Exploration of Family, Dementia, and Dysfunction 28 Dec 2023
    • 14 Dec 2023 Courage Becomes Cruelty: An Appropriation of “Arjan Vailly” in ANIMAL 14 Dec 2023
    • 10 Dec 2023 How Mammootty—the ‘Megastar’—Redefined Stardom 10 Dec 2023
    • 1 Nov 2023 Black Water and Black Hearts: The Politics of Citizenship in KAALA PAANI 1 Nov 2023
    • 18 Aug 2023 Garmi: A scorching drama on Indian Campus Politics 18 Aug 2023
    • 20 Jul 2023 A Profound Slow Burn 20 Jul 2023
    • 7 Mar 2023 Good Cop / Good Cop 7 Mar 2023
    • 20 Nov 2022 The Rockstar Catalysts 20 Nov 2022
    • 22 Oct 2022 A Grand Unified Theory of Aamir Khan 22 Oct 2022
    • 10 Sept 2022 The Idyllic Indian Village, Interrupted 10 Sept 2022
    • 18 Jul 2022 PANCHAYAT is a throwback that looks ahead 18 Jul 2022
    • 27 Jun 2022 A city translated through the languages of love 27 Jun 2022
    • 10 Jun 2022 An Age of Unreason: The Kashmir Files and The War on Information 10 Jun 2022
    • 11 Apr 2022 In BADHAAI DO, a small story asks big, bold questions 11 Apr 2022
    • 31 Mar 2022 The Great Indian Waste of Potential 31 Mar 2022
    • 19 Mar 2022 A Mature Portrayal of Science and Sensibility 19 Mar 2022
    • 1 Jan 2022 A BUNTY AUR BABLI for the Millennials 1 Jan 2022
    • 24 Dec 2021 The Women Behind the Screen: Anubha Yadav discusses her book SCRIPTING BOLLYWOOD 24 Dec 2021
    • 26 Nov 2021 The Past Superimposed upon the Present: Shoojit Sircar’s SARDAR UDHAM 26 Nov 2021
    • 12 Nov 2021 The ‘Secrets’ beyond a compelling Indian true-crime series 12 Nov 2021
    • 3 Nov 2021 Watch: THE LESSER CITIZENS, a short documentary about migrant labourers in Kerala 3 Nov 2021
    • 13 Sept 2021 THE DISCIPLE and Labours of Being Alive 13 Sept 2021
    • 15 Jul 2021 Skating Past Caste Tensions: How a Documentary Captured the ‘Wings’ of Change in an Indian village 15 Jul 2021
    • 9 Jul 2021 A roaring commentary on Indian Wildlife 9 Jul 2021
    • 7 Jul 2021 Life and Love through the Prism of Death 7 Jul 2021
    • 1 Jul 2021 TVF’s continuing ‘Aspiration’ as the voice of India’s Youth 1 Jul 2021
    • 26 May 2021 Thirteen Days of Mourning and Music, Death and Life 26 May 2021
    • 13 May 2021 The Long, Dark Chai-Time of the Soul 13 May 2021
    • 28 Apr 2021 Stranger Lives: AJEEB DAASTAANS—four uneven short films on life, love, and intersectionality 28 Apr 2021
    • 1 Apr 2021 The Inscrutable Oddity of Youth 1 Apr 2021
    • 11 Mar 2021 The Kitchen and the Cage 11 Mar 2021
    • 24 Feb 2021 Heroes and “Heroes”: AK VS AK and the blossoming of Meta-Cinema in Bollywood 24 Feb 2021
    • 14 Feb 2021 The Weight of Love: “Sir” and the delicate balance of an uneven romance 14 Feb 2021
    • 31 Jan 2021 Indian Tiger, Foreign Gaze 31 Jan 2021
    • 28 Jan 2021 Bringing Back the Popcorn: Is the future of Indian Films in OTT or the Theatre? 28 Jan 2021
    • 30 Dec 2020 The Next Episodes: The Best Indian web series in a year of OTT excellence 30 Dec 2020
    • 23 Dec 2020 Beyond Rom-Com: Finding the Unexpected in MISMATCHED 23 Dec 2020
    • 15 Dec 2020 Mass Entertainment Outrage 15 Dec 2020
    • 9 Dec 2020 SCAM 1992: A Time-Capsule of Crooked Ambition 9 Dec 2020
    • 7 Dec 2020 Jaa… Jee Le Apni Zindagi: On Fathers Confronting Feminism in Hindi Cinema 7 Dec 2020
    • 3 Dec 2020 The Story of the Aashrams Behind AASHRAM 3 Dec 2020
    • 11 Nov 2020 Blood Spilled and Blood Shared 11 Nov 2020
    • 10 Oct 2020 Scandal, Sex, and Skeletons: Aashram and the predictable villainy of on-screen godmen 10 Oct 2020
    • 29 Sept 2020 A Voice that Crossed Over; A Voice of a Generation 29 Sept 2020
    • 20 Sept 2020 The Sacrifices of Matrimony in A Suitable Boy 20 Sept 2020
    • 8 Sept 2020 Bulbbul: A Hypnotic Ride into the Horrors of Patriarchy 8 Sept 2020
    • 19 Aug 2020 Lights, Camera, and Gold Medals 19 Aug 2020
    • 5 Aug 2020 Sima Auntie’s Inconvenient Arrangements 5 Aug 2020
    • 27 Jul 2020 Bol! Ye thoda waqt bahut hai: Finding timeless poetry on the contemporary screen 27 Jul 2020
    • 15 Jul 2020 In the driver’s seat: A toast to the Everyday Woman in Gulabo Sitabo 15 Jul 2020
    • 4 Jul 2020 Cricket on Screen: The good, bad and ugly of Cricket in Bollywood 4 Jul 2020
    • 28 Jun 2020 Lyrical Cacophony: Sexuality and Objectification in Bollywood’s ‘Item Numbers’ 28 Jun 2020
    • 25 Jun 2020 Existence Is Resistance: How AXONE breaks barriers for Northeast representation in Bollywood 25 Jun 2020
    • 23 Jun 2020 The World According to Chippa 23 Jun 2020
    • 9 Jun 2020 City On Screen: Banaras to Varanasi 9 Jun 2020
    • 8 Jun 2020 Student's Corner: Back to Wasseypur 8 Jun 2020
    • 23 May 2020 The Weird and the Woeful 23 May 2020
    • 16 May 2020 Transcendence or trap: The pitfalls of Imtiaz Ali's SHE 16 May 2020
    • 3 May 2020 In His Second Skin: Roles that defined Irrfan Khan’s unmatched acting talent 3 May 2020
    • 28 Apr 2020 A gust of freedom: Water, Gender, and Caste in HELLARO 28 Apr 2020
    • 16 Apr 2020 A Hanumanic Leap: Why we must let India's mythological epics evolve beyond religion 16 Apr 2020
    • 23 Mar 2020 Yeh Meri (TV) Family 23 Mar 2020
    • 16 Mar 2020 Her Favourite Colour: How a ‘small’ incident in THAPPAD reveals the complex roots of Indian marriage and patriarchy 16 Mar 2020
    • 21 Feb 2020 In JAWAANI JANEMAN, Bollywood wrestles - and loses - with the idea of accepting an alternative lifestyle 21 Feb 2020
    • 8 Feb 2020 City On Screen: Bombay to Mumbai 8 Feb 2020
    • 19 Jan 2020 Fear and Loathing – and fact and fiction – in MEHSAMPUR 19 Jan 2020
    • 6 Jan 2020 The Decade in Hindi Cinema 6 Jan 2020
    • 23 Dec 2019 Why Netflix's LITTLE THINGS is a perfect showcase of Indian millennial relationships 23 Dec 2019
    • 18 Nov 2019 Excerpt: ‘Music, Masti, Modernity: The Cinema of Nasir Husain’ 18 Nov 2019
  • Creativity
    • 16 Jan 2025 Mr./Ms. Anonymous – An Excerpt from THE MYSTERY OF THE SILKY WAVES 16 Jan 2025
    • 6 Jan 2025 Fate, Fortune, and a Life-Affirming Encounter with the Work of Navjot Altaf 6 Jan 2025
    • 31 Dec 2024 After the Ocean 31 Dec 2024
    • 22 Dec 2024 TEN INDIAN CLASSICS: Selections from ‘Selected Ghazals and Other Poems’ by Mir Taqi Mir 22 Dec 2024
    • 19 Dec 2024 Reflection 19 Dec 2024
    • 12 Dec 2024 ‘Moisture Appends the Subtext’: Three Poems by Tabish Nawaz 12 Dec 2024
    • 29 Nov 2024 ‘Almost Interpretable, Almost Bearable’: Four poems by Sambhu R. 29 Nov 2024
    • 26 Nov 2024 Punarmilāma 26 Nov 2024
    • 12 Nov 2024 Preparing for Another Life: Four Poems by Ankush Banerjee 12 Nov 2024
    • 7 Nov 2024 Unspoken Inheritance 7 Nov 2024
    • 3 Nov 2024 A Thousand Cuts: Two Poems by Carol D’Souza 3 Nov 2024
    • 28 Oct 2024 Words, rain, Mozart: Three Poems by Sunil Sharma 28 Oct 2024
    • 25 Oct 2024 A Recoiled Thunderstorm: Three Poems by Kashiana Singh 25 Oct 2024
    • 10 Oct 2024 A Cosmic Dance 10 Oct 2024
    • 29 Sept 2024 Frogs 29 Sept 2024
    • 19 Sept 2024 The Litanies of Your Imaginations: Three Poems by Panchami 19 Sept 2024
    • 6 Sept 2024 Yesterday’s Rain: Six Poems by Sakkho Goon 6 Sept 2024
    • 24 Aug 2024 A Better Place to Rest: Three Poems by Kiriti Sengupta 24 Aug 2024
    • 16 Aug 2024 Halima – Segregating Junk 16 Aug 2024
    • 12 Aug 2024 Hearts Marinated in Lies: Two Poems by Vrinda Bansal 12 Aug 2024
    • 6 Aug 2024 Prayers to Peace: Three poems by Smita Agarwal 6 Aug 2024
    • 31 Jul 2024 Mother of All Beings 31 Jul 2024
    • 29 Jul 2024 ‘A Knot that Would Not Unknot’ – Two Poems by Gopi Kottoor 29 Jul 2024
    • 20 Jul 2024 Holding Hands with the Stars: Five Poems by Sayan Aich Bhowmik 20 Jul 2024
    • 13 Jul 2024 House of Quiet 13 Jul 2024
    • 6 Jul 2024 Two Fridas: Two Poems by Shreya Sharma 6 Jul 2024
    • 3 Jul 2024 Kolkata Feasts or Firewood: Three Poems by Shome Dasgupta 3 Jul 2024
    • 22 Jun 2024 Paeans 22 Jun 2024
    • 13 Jun 2024 “Did you shave off your moustache?” 13 Jun 2024
    • 9 Jun 2024 ‘A Claim to Dawns’: Two Poems by Carol D’Souza 9 Jun 2024
    • 6 Jun 2024 All That the Kaveri Washes Away 6 Jun 2024
    • 31 May 2024 ‘You’re Also a Part of a Whole’: Poetry by Vikram Kolmannskog 31 May 2024
    • 28 May 2024 Maya Blue 28 May 2024
    • 25 May 2024 Cities That Walked – An Excerpt 25 May 2024
    • 22 May 2024 Days Are Whirlpools: Three Poems by K.S. Subramanian 22 May 2024
    • 11 May 2024 The World from my Window: Three Poems by Mary Tina Shamli Pillay 11 May 2024
    • 1 May 2024 Chris Rock to Kunal Kamra: My Transformation into a Comedy Uncle 1 May 2024
    • 28 Apr 2024 The Syntax of Time’s Wheel: Three Poems by Sunkara Gopal 28 Apr 2024
    • 22 Mar 2024 A Symbiotic Dance of Survival and Reverence 22 Mar 2024
    • 24 Feb 2024 Dreams of Californication 24 Feb 2024
    • 20 Feb 2024 Name 20 Feb 2024
    • 16 Feb 2024 Inheritance, from Loss 16 Feb 2024
    • 12 Feb 2024 Here and Now: Two Poems by Chintan Girish Modi 12 Feb 2024
    • 7 Feb 2024 Echoes of Winter 7 Feb 2024
    • 3 Feb 2024 When Azaleas Bloom: A Series of Poems by Nikhat Jonak 3 Feb 2024
    • 25 Jan 2024 why must i sleep at night? 25 Jan 2024
    • 23 Jan 2024 The Fear of Being Loved 23 Jan 2024
    • 19 Jan 2024 The Consolation of Ruins: Five Poems by Paromita Patranobish 19 Jan 2024
    • 16 Jan 2024 In Goa, Serendipity and the Self 16 Jan 2024
    • 14 Jan 2024 ‘A Day-Long Cloudburst’ – Two poems by Kiriti Sengupta 14 Jan 2024
    • 10 Jan 2024 The Obvious 10 Jan 2024
    • 7 Jan 2024 An Outing 7 Jan 2024
    • 1 Jan 2024 Amulets of Resistance: Two Poems by Kashiana Singh 1 Jan 2024
    • 22 Dec 2023 The Migrating Verse 22 Dec 2023
    • 17 Dec 2023 ‘On the wings of the seraph’: Two poems by Preeti Manaktala 17 Dec 2023
    • 8 Dec 2023 A Life on the Fringes of Cricket Madness 8 Dec 2023
    • 4 Dec 2023 Blood, Sweat, Tears 4 Dec 2023
    • 1 Dec 2023 Anamorphosis 1 Dec 2023
    • 17 Nov 2023 Odes to Autumn: Two Poems by Anushri Nanavati 17 Nov 2023
    • 12 Nov 2023 A Jasmine Trail 12 Nov 2023
    • 9 Oct 2023 “Renewals” and other poems by Sunil Sharma 9 Oct 2023
    • 6 Oct 2023 The Remedy 6 Oct 2023
    • 18 Sept 2023 Roots 18 Sept 2023
    • 16 Sept 2023 Resident Alien 16 Sept 2023
    • 8 Sept 2023 A Pair of Jhumkas 8 Sept 2023
    • 6 Sept 2023 The Security Guard 6 Sept 2023
    • 31 Aug 2023 Black Plums and a Purple Heart 31 Aug 2023
    • 27 Aug 2023 The Queen And I—An Excerpt from YAARI 27 Aug 2023
    • 25 Aug 2023 “Loom” and other poems by Jahnavi Gogoi 25 Aug 2023
    • 21 Aug 2023 Leaving Bannu 21 Aug 2023
    • 16 Aug 2023 Bites from the Market 16 Aug 2023
    • 12 Aug 2023 A Spectacular Map 12 Aug 2023
    • 7 Aug 2023 A Souvenir from The Taj 7 Aug 2023
    • 4 Aug 2023 A Cape of Memories: Three poems by Bharti Bansal 4 Aug 2023
    • 31 Jul 2023 Foregoing the bygones 31 Jul 2023
    • 27 Jul 2023 Burning 27 Jul 2023
    • 23 Jul 2023 Arrested Eyesight: Three poems by Vasundhara Parashar 23 Jul 2023
    • 18 Jul 2023 ‘Saw Eternity, Eroded’: Six poems by Dion D’Souza 18 Jul 2023
    • 7 Jul 2023 Ordinary Masons, Who Paint a Sun on the Sky 7 Jul 2023
    • 25 Jun 2023 Stargazing 25 Jun 2023
    • 20 Jun 2023 ‘A crucified alphabet of crossed out names’: Four poems by Ajay Kumar 20 Jun 2023
    • 17 Jun 2023 Blood Relation 17 Jun 2023
    • 9 Apr 2023 A Place of No Return 9 Apr 2023
    • 31 Mar 2023 Thoroughfare 31 Mar 2023
    • 22 Mar 2023 The Secret Name 22 Mar 2023
    • 19 Mar 2023 It Thrives in Winter 19 Mar 2023
    • 16 Mar 2023 Discovering Vincent 16 Mar 2023
    • 4 Mar 2023 ‘How dangerously rejuvenating it feels’ – Two poems by Nikhat Jonak 4 Mar 2023
    • 1 Mar 2023 The Burden of Beauty: An Open Letter to Shah Jahan 1 Mar 2023
    • 26 Feb 2023 Excerpts: MY BODY IS NOT A VESSEL by Shamayita Sen 26 Feb 2023
    • 9 Feb 2023 Every Door, A Tender Veil: A photo-essay by Poornima Laxmeshwar 9 Feb 2023
    • 3 Feb 2023 A Study in Pink 3 Feb 2023
    • 29 Jan 2023 Bonds 29 Jan 2023
    • 27 Jan 2023 Excerpt: THE STORY OF JONAH STONE by Amrit 27 Jan 2023
    • 26 Jan 2023 Boulevard of Time 26 Jan 2023
    • 18 Jan 2023 Now Serene, Now Solitary: Three poems by Anam Tariq 18 Jan 2023
    • 15 Jan 2023 Time, Immortality, and the Art of Letterpress Printing 15 Jan 2023
    • 6 Jan 2023 P is for Patna: An Alphabet of Hope for my hometown 6 Jan 2023
    • 2 Jan 2023 Broken Dawns and Unfinished Nights – Two poems by Mitra Samal 2 Jan 2023
    • 31 Dec 2022 Lotus 31 Dec 2022
  • Misc.
    • 9 Jan 2025 The Trees of Our Land 9 Jan 2025
    • 9 Dec 2024 Calcutta’s Chromosome, Hidden in Plain Sight 9 Dec 2024
    • 23 Nov 2024 The ‘Sentinels’ of Tomorrow 23 Nov 2024
    • 10 Nov 2024 In Language, Colonial Kolkata Stays Alive 10 Nov 2024
    • 15 Sept 2024 The Legend of Café Samovar, Mumbai’s Melting Pot of Cozy Camaraderie 15 Sept 2024
    • 25 Jul 2024 The Summer of Heat Islands 25 Jul 2024
    • 25 Apr 2024 Where is the Work? 25 Apr 2024
    • 10 Feb 2024 Snowless in the Himalaya 10 Feb 2024
    • 29 Nov 2023 Troubled Waters 29 Nov 2023
    • 12 Feb 2023 The Growth Malaise 12 Feb 2023
    • 4 May 2022 The Decline That Wasn’t 4 May 2022
    • 5 Apr 2022 The Maya and the Meta 5 Apr 2022
    • 8 Mar 2022 Empowering The Marginalised 8 Mar 2022
    • 19 Jan 2022 Should we ever return to our offices again? 19 Jan 2022
    • 13 Dec 2021 Do You Hate This Ad? Spotify and the Self-Reflexivity of Advertising 13 Dec 2021
    • 18 Oct 2021 What Makes a Modern Indian Minimalist? 18 Oct 2021
    • 23 Jul 2021 Mental Health in India: Purity, Pollution, Caste, and Mental Health 23 Jul 2021
    • 17 Jun 2021 Selective Scarcity: A Queer Lens at India’s Health Care Imbalance 17 Jun 2021
    • 11 Jun 2021 A Tale of Two Pandemics: COVID and Disinformation 11 Jun 2021
    • 1 Jun 2021 How Happy Is Your Timeline? 1 Jun 2021
    • 18 May 2021 Reclaiming the Lost House of Oudh 18 May 2021
    • 16 Mar 2021 Mental Health in India: Academic Spaces as Centres of Well-Being and Resilience 16 Mar 2021
    • 9 Feb 2021 The Uncredited Authors of India’s Growth Story 9 Feb 2021
    • 24 Jan 2021 ‘We Shall Not Live Half-Asleep’: Glimpses of Revolution from the Farmers’ Protests 24 Jan 2021
    • 9 Jan 2021 Mental Health in India: Gaps in mental health care for India’s LGBTQ+ community 9 Jan 2021
    • 26 Nov 2020 Mental Health in India: Religion and mental health distress 26 Nov 2020
    • 31 Oct 2020 India’s Prevention Paradox 31 Oct 2020
    • 13 Oct 2020 Mental Health in India: Capitalism, Productivity and Mental Health Distress  13 Oct 2020
    • 1 Oct 2020 The Crumbling Fourth Pillar 1 Oct 2020
    • 5 Sept 2020 Mental Health in India: Looking Through a Filter of Colonialism and Casteism 5 Sept 2020
    • 31 Aug 2020 India's Wait for the COVID-19 Vaccine and Economic Concerns Post-Lockdown 31 Aug 2020
    • 13 Aug 2020 What Happens After the Vaccine? 13 Aug 2020
    • 7 Jul 2020 The Disaster and the Displaced 7 Jul 2020
    • 15 Jun 2020 Stained Khaki: The roots and aggravations of police brutality 15 Jun 2020
    • 19 May 2020 The Vulnerable 50% 19 May 2020
    • 30 Apr 2020 The Mahatma in Mussoorie 30 Apr 2020
    • 7 Apr 2020 Mussoorie Writers: Tales From Sikander Hall by Lillian Skinner Singh 7 Apr 2020
    • 2 Apr 2020 The Indian Government Handbook to Fighting Coronavirus: An illustrated six-step journey 2 Apr 2020
    • 11 Mar 2020 The Redesign of New Delhi’s Central Vista, and the Colonial Stripes of Narendra Modi 11 Mar 2020
    • 16 Feb 2020 The Manic Medley of the Maximum City 16 Feb 2020
    • 29 Dec 2019 The Indigestible Politics and Violence of Food in India 29 Dec 2019
  • Art
    • 6 Jan 2025 Fate, Fortune, and a Life-Affirming Encounter with the Work of Navjot Altaf 6 Jan 2025
    • 25 Dec 2024 A River to Flow Through Us All 25 Dec 2024
    • 13 Apr 2024 Queens of the Hills 13 Apr 2024
    • 11 Apr 2024 Spiritual Homecomings: Shalmali Shetty on her curatorial project “The nights will follow the days” 11 Apr 2024
    • 16 Jan 2024 In Goa, Serendipity and the Self 16 Jan 2024
    • 21 Oct 2023 Ink(ed) on Flat Surfaces: A Show on Studio Practice 21 Oct 2023
    • 18 Oct 2023 With Great Ease: A Celebration of T.S. Satyan’s Photographic Gaze 18 Oct 2023
    • 3 Jul 2023 Toy Story 3 Jul 2023
    • 10 Mar 2023 An International Collage of Art and Artists 10 Mar 2023
    • 7 Feb 2023 The Beauty of Two Souls: The Rise of Customized Art 7 Feb 2023
    • 10 Jan 2023 At Manchester, a permanent celebration of the South Asian Diaspora 10 Jan 2023
    • 24 Dec 2022 A Century of Artistic Synthesis and Reinterpretations 24 Dec 2022
    • 2 Dec 2022 On the Crossroads of Art and Spirituality 2 Dec 2022
    • 26 Nov 2022 Gopi Gajwani, a Modernist product of Partition 26 Nov 2022
    • 7 Nov 2022 Metaphors for Larger Ruptures: The collected art of WOMAN IS AS WOMEN DOES 7 Nov 2022
    • 2 Nov 2022 The Artist and The Anthropocene 2 Nov 2022
    • 8 Sept 2022 The Cityscape in M. Pravat’s ‘Concrete Dusk’ 8 Sept 2022
    • 28 Jul 2022 A telling of our times: The art of Ashok Bhowmick 28 Jul 2022
    • 21 Jul 2022 Indian Art Under the Company’s Shadow 21 Jul 2022
    • 19 May 2022 Gameplay with an Artistic Heart 19 May 2022
    • 14 May 2022 Connecting the Dots: The art of Manisha Gera Baswani 14 May 2022
    • 30 Apr 2022 A Celebration of 1,300 years of Islamic Art 30 Apr 2022
    • 18 Apr 2022 ‘I Float, You Rise’: The art of Rahul Chauhan 18 Apr 2022
    • 16 Apr 2022 TRUTH DREAM: Breaking Gender Norms through a Phantasmagoria of Lived Desire 16 Apr 2022
    • 9 Apr 2022 Art and Ecology: Listening to the voice of art collectives in Assam 9 Apr 2022
    • 7 Apr 2022 Flights of Fancy: Kothandaraman Sambandan’s Journey in Art 7 Apr 2022
    • 14 Feb 2022 The Dark Webs of Jogen Chowdhury 14 Feb 2022
    • 1 Feb 2022 Full Circle: Ahlawat Gunjan on the Wondrous World of Book Cover Design 1 Feb 2022
    • 10 Jan 2022 The Women and the Safety Pin 10 Jan 2022
    • 7 Jan 2022 A Mumbai inspired by ‘The New Yorker’ 7 Jan 2022
    • 21 Dec 2021 With ‘Episteme’, Ten Indian Artists Translate the Language of Now 21 Dec 2021
    • 10 Dec 2021 The Studio as a Canvas: Sanoop P.C.’s Poetry of Impermanence 10 Dec 2021
    • 5 Nov 2021 The dawdling, gentle beauty of Aman Poddar’s patterns 5 Nov 2021
    • 1 Oct 2021 Full Circle: Shaleen Wadhwana on Art History in a Digital World 1 Oct 2021
    • 28 Sept 2021 Distorted Images: Caste, Sexuality, and History in the art of Keerthana Chandragiri 28 Sept 2021
    • 26 Aug 2021 Full Circle: Amardeep Behl on the Narrative Experiences in Space 26 Aug 2021
    • 27 Jul 2021 Raja Ravi Varma, Retold for Children 27 Jul 2021
    • 23 May 2021 The Transformational Joy of Art: In memoriam of Shakti Maira 23 May 2021
    • 5 Dec 2020 Life in the Bubbles: Dhruvi Acharya’s Pandemic Art 5 Dec 2020
    • 17 Nov 2020 Leaving Behind the Stardust: Inder Salim and a life sacrificed to art 17 Nov 2020
    • 7 May 2020 Masterpieces Under Our Feet 7 May 2020
    • 5 Feb 2020 Achieving Zero: The loud silences of art from the 2020 India Art Fair 5 Feb 2020
  • Literature
    • 22 Dec 2024 TEN INDIAN CLASSICS: Selections from ‘Selected Ghazals and Other Poems’ by Mir Taqi Mir 22 Dec 2024
    • 9 Dec 2024 Calcutta’s Chromosome, Hidden in Plain Sight 9 Dec 2024
    • 5 Dec 2024 BLASPHEAR by Sohail Rauf: Religion, Fear, and the Cost of Silence 5 Dec 2024
    • 2 Dec 2024 Gopal Lahiri’s Poetry of Motion 2 Dec 2024
    • 20 Nov 2024 The Mathematical Values of Feeling Adrift 20 Nov 2024
    • 1 Nov 2024 A ‘Spicy’ Feast of Fantasy 1 Nov 2024
    • 19 Oct 2024 The Profound Metaphors of Inner Turmoil in Aparna Sanyal’s INSTRUMENTS OF TORTURE 19 Oct 2024
    • 16 Oct 2024 Voices of a Generation: An Interview with A.M. Gautam on INDIAN MILLENNIALS 16 Oct 2024
    • 14 Oct 2024 Down to EARTHA: Vinita Agrawal’s Poetic Conversation with Nature 14 Oct 2024
    • 12 Sept 2024 The City Must Die Before It’s Reborn: Varun Thomas Mathew’s THE BLACK DWARVES OF THE GOOD LITTLE BAY 12 Sept 2024
    • 18 Aug 2024 “I surrendered to the chaos”: An Interview with Tashan Mehta, author of MAD SISTERS OF ESI 18 Aug 2024
    • 9 Aug 2024 Rainbows on the Silver Screen 9 Aug 2024
    • 3 Aug 2024 “We All Share Human Experiences” – An Interview with K. Vaishali 3 Aug 2024
    • 16 Jul 2024 Celestial Broadcasts 16 Jul 2024
    • 10 Jul 2024 In the Unifying Language of Verse 10 Jul 2024
    • 1 Jul 2024 Obsession and Namelessness in Devibharathi’s THE SOLITUDE OF A SHADOW 1 Jul 2024
    • 27 Jun 2024 A Way of ‘Happening’: Amitava Kumar’s THE YELLOW BOOK 27 Jun 2024
    • 15 Jun 2024 “Sometimes silence works”: Words and Withdrawals in Kiriti Sengupta’s Oneness 15 Jun 2024
    • 19 May 2024 Art, Defanged 19 May 2024
    • 13 May 2024 Who Chooses Whom? The Book Buyer’s Conundrum 13 May 2024
    • 8 May 2024 A Chronicle of Mob Violence, Transgressions, and Social Media 8 May 2024
    • 4 May 2024 “I realized HURDA cannot be one person’s story”—An interview with Atharva Pandit 4 May 2024
    • 22 Apr 2024 Stepping Beyond the Boundaries: An Interview with Tishani Doshi 22 Apr 2024
    • 17 Mar 2024 Survival is an act of defiance 17 Mar 2024
    • 11 Mar 2024 In Our Own Voices: Queer Representation at the International Kolkata Book Fair 11 Mar 2024
    • 6 Mar 2024 “I Embrace My Bitterness” - An Interview with Abhishek Anicca 6 Mar 2024
    • 28 Jan 2024 To Live in a Language: An interview with Sumana Roy 28 Jan 2024
    • 5 Jan 2024 How Indian Publishers Pushed for Greater Diversity in 2023 5 Jan 2024
    • 26 Dec 2023 Dispossession and Discomfort in Vivek Shanbhag’s SAKINA’S KISS 26 Dec 2023
    • 19 Dec 2023 Ranjit Hoskote’s Shimmering Lights 19 Dec 2023
    • 22 Nov 2023 A Bombay That Demands More 22 Nov 2023
    • 15 Oct 2023 A Synthesis of Physics and Poetry 15 Oct 2023
    • 1 Oct 2023 Mightier than the Bullet: The Writings of Julio Riberio 1 Oct 2023
    • 23 Sept 2023 Arundhati Roy: A Troublemaker Needed for our Troubled Times 23 Sept 2023
    • 11 Sept 2023 Revolution on the Airwaves: An Account of India’s Tumultuous Radio History 11 Sept 2023
    • 14 Jul 2023 Comings and Goings: On the beauty of Amitabha Bagchi’s HALF THE NIGHT IS GONE 14 Jul 2023
    • 11 Jul 2023 A Compassionate Dissent: The poetry of Madhu Raghavendra 11 Jul 2023
    • 30 Jun 2023 THE MENDICANT PRINCE: A Women-centric retelling of the Bhawal Sannyasi Case 30 Jun 2023
    • 11 Jun 2023 A Civilization and its Stories: Salman Rushdie’s VICTORY CITY 11 Jun 2023
    • 18 Apr 2023 An Entwined Trajectory of Bombay and a Boy 18 Apr 2023
    • 25 Mar 2023 SHADOW CITY and ORIENTING: On the Road with Two Indian Women Across Asia 25 Mar 2023
    • 18 Feb 2023 “Translation Is a Continuum” – An Interview with Daisy Rockwell 18 Feb 2023
    • 21 Jan 2023 An Interview with ‘The Guysexual’—Aniruddha Mahale Gets Out 21 Jan 2023
    • 19 Jan 2023 The Undying Muse: Nivedita Dey’s LARKSPUR LANE 19 Jan 2023
    • 10 Dec 2022 A Poetic Clarion Call to the Feminine Presence—Nabina Das’ ‘Anima’ 10 Dec 2022
    • 25 Oct 2022 Tales from a Bloody Baisakhi 25 Oct 2022
    • 16 Sept 2022 Art Against the Algorithm: Vauhini Vara’s THE IMMORTAL KING RAO 16 Sept 2022
    • 10 Sept 2022 The Idyllic Indian Village, Interrupted 10 Sept 2022
    • 2 Sept 2022 Literary Reflections: Stories from India and Pakistan in THE OTHER IN THE MIRROR 2 Sept 2022
    • 27 Aug 2022 No one an outsider in the holy city 27 Aug 2022
    • 13 Aug 2022 A Forgotten Rebellion: The Royal Navy’s Mutiny of 1946 13 Aug 2022
    • 8 Aug 2022 Bleeding Past the Taboos: A new anthology on menstrual health in South Asia 8 Aug 2022
    • 4 Aug 2022 By the doorways of womanhood: The poetry of Kashiana Singh 4 Aug 2022
    • 10 Jul 2022 The Burning Embers of Petrofiction: Ilyas Ahmed Gaddi’s FIRE AREA 10 Jul 2022
    • 5 Jul 2022 In THE NUTMEG’S CURSE Amitav Ghosh gives voice to our ailing planet 5 Jul 2022
    • 6 Jun 2022 Authors of The Other: Social Realism in Indian Fiction 6 Jun 2022
    • 29 May 2022 Priya: The Brown-Skinned Supergirl to the Rescue 29 May 2022
    • 21 Apr 2022 The Ever-Moving Wheel: G.N. Devy on the Mahabharata 21 Apr 2022
    • 14 Apr 2022 Naming the Unnameable: Daribha Lyndem’s NAME PLACE ANIMAL THING 14 Apr 2022
    • 3 Apr 2022 Perumal Murugan Q&A: ‘It has always been my nature to go against the grain’ 3 Apr 2022
    • 28 Mar 2022 On the refractive indices of words: The poetry of Sridala Swami 28 Mar 2022
    • 22 Mar 2022 The Performance of Trauma in Fiction 22 Mar 2022
    • 16 Mar 2022 Literary Hoomans and their Best Friends 16 Mar 2022
    • 2 Mar 2022 Dreaming Among Debris 2 Mar 2022
    • 25 Feb 2022 Where the darkness blooms into jasmine: The poetry of Zilka Joseph 25 Feb 2022
    • 6 Feb 2022 Droughts and Disillusions: On the Life of Godavari Dange 6 Feb 2022
    • 1 Feb 2022 Full Circle: Ahlawat Gunjan on the Wondrous World of Book Cover Design 1 Feb 2022
    • 27 Jan 2022 ‘It’s Fair to Suggest that We Live in Two Indias’ – An Interview with Shashi Tharoor 27 Jan 2022
    • 24 Jan 2022 Pandemic, History, Democracy, and Chai: Previewing the Indian Non-Fiction Palette of 2022 24 Jan 2022
    • 16 Jan 2022 True Lies in the Heartlands: Chandan Pandey’s LEGAL FICTION 16 Jan 2022
    • 27 Dec 2021 2021: A Year in Reading 27 Dec 2021
    • 24 Dec 2021 The Women Behind the Screen: Anubha Yadav discusses her book SCRIPTING BOLLYWOOD 24 Dec 2021
    • 18 Nov 2021 Anuk Arudpragasm’s A PASSAGE NORTH is a Quiet Resistance Against Time 18 Nov 2021
    • 31 Oct 2021 The Birth of Mocaine’s New Dimensions 31 Oct 2021
    • 24 Oct 2021 Golchakkar: Dispatches from Australia 24 Oct 2021
    • 12 Oct 2021 The Framework of Dignity 12 Oct 2021
    • 7 Oct 2021 Beauty and Nothingness: The poetry of Sophia Naz 7 Oct 2021
    • 23 Sept 2021 The Women of Medicine: A Timely Archive of India’s Pathbreaking ‘Lady Doctors’ 23 Sept 2021
    • 16 Sept 2021 Golchakkar: The Evolving Pathways of Publishing 16 Sept 2021
    • 7 Sept 2021 A Girlhood Lost Under Occupation: Farah Bashir’s RUMOURS OF SPRING 7 Sept 2021
    • 4 Sept 2021 Love, Law, and Literature: A conversation with Danish Sheikh 4 Sept 2021
    • 21 Aug 2021 Moustache, or The Man Who Never Ends 21 Aug 2021
    • 12 Aug 2021 Golchakkar: Indian Literature from a Queer Lens 12 Aug 2021
    • 27 Jul 2021 Raja Ravi Varma, Retold for Children 27 Jul 2021
    • 21 Jul 2021 A Life Misspent: Kulli Bhaat’s Life, as seen through Nirala’s Heteronormative Gaze 21 Jul 2021
    • 19 Jul 2021 Golchakkar: Dispatches from Latin America 19 Jul 2021
    • 29 Jun 2021 ‘In fiction, one finds the opportunity to utter the unsayable’ – An exploration of Queer Literature from India 29 Jun 2021
    • 19 Jun 2021 Golchakkar: Graphic Narratives from India 19 Jun 2021
    • 7 Jun 2021 Men, Inclusion, and Feminism 7 Jun 2021
    • 29 May 2021 Other Words and Inner Worlds 29 May 2021
    • 16 May 2021 Golchakkar: Poetry and the Pandemic 16 May 2021
    • 4 May 2021 Manada Devi and the Literary Elevation of a ‘Fallen’ Woman 4 May 2021
    • 1 May 2021 Lovers and Borders: SKYFALL author Saba Karim Khan on Pakistan, India, politics, and craft 1 May 2021
    • 9 Apr 2021 Whose Freedoms are Our Freedoms? 9 Apr 2021
    • 6 Apr 2021 Saraf Ali Bhat’s Literature of Sorrow, Ignorance, and Enlightenment 6 Apr 2021
    • 4 Apr 2021 Golchakkar: Imagining Place in Literature 4 Apr 2021
    • 21 Mar 2021 From the Unsettled Dusts of Manipur 21 Mar 2021
    • 14 Mar 2021 Golchakkar: Mother Tongues in a Global Context 14 Mar 2021
    • 6 Mar 2021 A Riot in the Guise of Prose 6 Mar 2021
    • 20 Feb 2021 Boys and Men: BOYISH and a dialogue on Indian masculinity 20 Feb 2021
  • Music
    • 1 Sept 2024 We Need to Talk About Hanumankind 1 Sept 2024
    • 18 Jun 2024 ‘Afraid of Feeling So Great’: Green Park’s Moody Melodies of Separation and Growth 18 Jun 2024
    • 17 May 2024 How Chamkila’s Music Holds a Mirror up to Punjab’s Cultural Vices 17 May 2024
    • 14 Dec 2023 Courage Becomes Cruelty: An Appropriation of “Arjan Vailly” in ANIMAL 14 Dec 2023
    • 9 Aug 2023 Pioneers of Bangla World Rock: An Interview with members of Krosswindz 9 Aug 2023
    • 13 Mar 2023 A Stage in Symphony: The Alchemy of QALA’s Music 13 Mar 2023
    • 1 Feb 2023 ‘Meetha Sa Chara Hai Bukhar’: The Timeless Musical Fever of DEV.D 1 Feb 2023
    • 12 Jan 2023 Paa De Lohri: A reconsideration of the spring festival’s most popular folk songs 12 Jan 2023
    • 7 Oct 2022 Poison Pop 7 Oct 2022
    • 27 Sept 2022 808s & Sufiyana: Ahmer’s hip hop tapestry from the Kashmir Valley 27 Sept 2022
    • 21 Sept 2022 The Jazzy Raga of Cultures in MILES FROM INDIA 21 Sept 2022
    • 23 Aug 2022 A Sonic Autobiography of Moods: Music by Vivek Venugopal 23 Aug 2022
    • 11 May 2022 Pushing Forward with the Blues: An interview with Warren Mendonsa of Blackstratblues 11 May 2022
    • 28 Apr 2022 Jazz with an Indian Soul 28 Apr 2022
    • 31 Oct 2021 The Birth of Mocaine’s New Dimensions 31 Oct 2021
    • 16 Aug 2021 Of Inquilab and Saaz: The Music of Deepak Peace 16 Aug 2021
    • 14 Aug 2021 Songs in the Key of the Forest: The Music of Coorg’s Kudiya Tribe 14 Aug 2021
    • 22 Jun 2021 The Ballad of a Superpower Lost 22 Jun 2021
    • 18 Apr 2021 Punking The Public 18 Apr 2021
    • 16 Jan 2021 Kranti Havi: How Swadesi Became India’s Most Potent Voice of Protest Hip Hop 16 Jan 2021
    • 8 Nov 2020 Positive Vibrations 8 Nov 2020
    • 28 Oct 2020 The Perfect Blend: When Chai Met Toast and the Art of Happy, Infectious Music 28 Oct 2020
    • 29 Sept 2020 A Voice that Crossed Over; A Voice of a Generation 29 Sept 2020
    • 16 Sept 2020 When The Music Stops 16 Sept 2020
    • 3 Sept 2020 Music from the Hills: Abdon Mech dreams of better days in “Again” 3 Sept 2020
    • 11 Jul 2020 Music as Still Life: Sameer Rahat’s poetic solo debut Aamad 11 Jul 2020
    • 2 Jul 2020 The World is Ours—Divine leads the rise of Desi Rap, with an assist from Nas 2 Jul 2020
    • 28 Jun 2020 Lyrical Cacophony: Sexuality and Objectification in Bollywood’s ‘Item Numbers’ 28 Jun 2020
    • 31 May 2020 Livin’ With Metal: A peep into the Indian metal scene 31 May 2020
    • 15 May 2020 Nowhere But Here 15 May 2020
    • 22 Apr 2020 The homegrown blues of Lal And the People—An interview with frontman Rohit Lalwani 22 Apr 2020
    • 19 Apr 2020 Music from the Hills: Bipul Chettri’s latest release, ‘Neela Akash’ 19 Apr 2020
    • 28 Mar 2020 Music and the Virus: How the COVID-19 outbreak has disrupted the Indian Indie Scene. 28 Mar 2020
    • 25 Mar 2020 Music from the Hills: The Ladies of Indian Rock 25 Mar 2020
    • 29 Jan 2020 Music from the Hills: All efforts matter in the Indian indie scene 29 Jan 2020
    • 22 Jan 2020 Lucknow Music Diaries: Sticking to the setlist 22 Jan 2020
    • 26 Dec 2019 A Sort of Homecoming 26 Dec 2019
    • 14 Dec 2019 FutureDesi IndieSounds 14 Dec 2019
    • 6 Dec 2019 Wake Up and Listen 6 Dec 2019
    • 1 Dec 2019 Music from the Hills: The tale of the Worn-Out boot 1 Dec 2019
    • 29 Nov 2019 Rock-N-Honour-Rolls 29 Nov 2019
    • 24 Nov 2019 Meba’s Journey 24 Nov 2019
    • 21 Nov 2019 The Chakkar with Bangalore’s Live Music Scene 21 Nov 2019
    • 18 Nov 2019 Excerpt: ‘Music, Masti, Modernity: The Cinema of Nasir Husain’ 18 Nov 2019
    • 13 Nov 2019 Music from the Hills 13 Nov 2019
    • 6 Nov 2019 Band, Baaja, and Bachelor's Degrees 6 Nov 2019
  • Editorial
    • 19 May 2024 Art, Defanged 19 May 2024
    • 5 Mar 2022 Grief at the Ghats 5 Mar 2022
    • 31 Mar 2020 Going Viral 31 Mar 2020
    • 1 Jan 2020 Who will chowkidar the chowkidars? 1 Jan 2020
    • 5 Nov 2019 Welcome to The Chakkar 5 Nov 2019
  • Theatre
    • 8 Apr 2024 Jyoti Dogra’s MAAS: The Body and Its Desires 8 Apr 2024
    • 25 Nov 2023 In Ramnagar, the Folk Theatre of the Ramlila Continues its Centuries-Old Traditions 25 Nov 2023
    • 24 Aug 2022 A Play on Blurred Sexual Lines—Now in India 24 Aug 2022
    • 4 Dec 2021 Full Circle: Greeny Francis on Theatre as Intervention 4 Dec 2021
    • 1 Dec 2021 The Market and The Jester 1 Dec 2021
    • 18 Sept 2021 Chennai is Joking Around 18 Sept 2021
    • 4 Sept 2021 Love, Law, and Literature: A conversation with Danish Sheikh 4 Sept 2021
    • 3 Jan 2021 Dancing In Deadlock: Kerala’s renowned Kathakali artistes have struggled to survive post the pandemic 3 Jan 2021
    • 7 Oct 2020 Hanging on to the Trapeze 7 Oct 2020
    • 8 Aug 2020 ‘We need to keep changing to survive’ – Virajas Kulkarni on the future of Indian theatre 8 Aug 2020
    • 11 Jan 2020 All The Stage's A World 11 Jan 2020
    • 16 Nov 2019 "Theatre has given me the right attitude and the ability to know and understand the other person" 16 Nov 2019
  • Photography
    • 22 Mar 2024 A Symbiotic Dance of Survival and Reverence 22 Mar 2024
    • 16 Jan 2024 In Goa, Serendipity and the Self 16 Jan 2024
    • 25 Nov 2023 In Ramnagar, the Folk Theatre of the Ramlila Continues its Centuries-Old Traditions 25 Nov 2023
    • 16 Aug 2023 Bites from the Market 16 Aug 2023
    • 9 Feb 2023 Every Door, A Tender Veil: A photo-essay by Poornima Laxmeshwar 9 Feb 2023
    • 15 Nov 2022 On The Gateways of Faith: Divinity and the Damned in Haridwar 15 Nov 2022
    • 1 Aug 2022 A Searing Little Fire in Mumbai 1 Aug 2022
    • 24 Jun 2022 A colourful passage through time: Photos from Fort Kochi 24 Jun 2022
    • 12 Feb 2022 A Havoc in the Himalaya 12 Feb 2022
    • 18 Dec 2021 Breath, Life, and Connection – A Photo Essay 18 Dec 2021
    • 28 Aug 2021 Travelling Without Footprints 28 Aug 2021
    • 30 Jul 2021 The Backwaters 30 Jul 2021
    • 15 Jun 2021 Kolkata Hiraeth, A Longing for Home 15 Jun 2021
    • 9 Jun 2021 Pardesi Pahadi: Splendour and Survival at Sahastra Tal 9 Jun 2021
    • 21 Apr 2021 The Living Storybooks of Kolkata – A Photo Essay 21 Apr 2021
    • 9 Mar 2021 Fishing Along the Coringa Mangrove Forests 9 Mar 2021
    • 17 Feb 2021 The Drift 17 Feb 2021
    • 11 Feb 2021 Winter in the Old City 11 Feb 2021
    • 24 Jan 2021 ‘We Shall Not Live Half-Asleep’: Glimpses of Revolution from the Farmers’ Protests 24 Jan 2021
    • 13 Jan 2021 Everyday Rajasthan Travel Photo Contest 2020: The Winners! 13 Jan 2021
    • 28 Dec 2020 Pardesi Pahadi: Avalanche on Apharwat 28 Dec 2020
    • 20 Dec 2020 The Outsider 20 Dec 2020
    • 29 Nov 2020 Bombayscapes - A Photo Gallery 29 Nov 2020
    • 25 Oct 2020 Sonepur Mela: At the Festival of Beasts 25 Oct 2020
    • 21 Oct 2020 Living Memories: A Glimpse of the history at Landour Bazaar 21 Oct 2020
    • 14 Sept 2020 Ghats, Gullies, and Ganga 14 Sept 2020
    • 17 Jun 2020 Pardesi Pahadi: Five books on the Himalaya and other Mountains 17 Jun 2020
    • 4 Jun 2020 What the storm brought home: A photo-essay from Nagapattinam 4 Jun 2020
    • 2 Jun 2020 Shyama's Cattle: Ode to a Himalayan friendship 2 Jun 2020
    • 25 Apr 2020 Isolated With The Sky 25 Apr 2020
    • 10 Apr 2020 Pardesi Pahadi: Ascent to Bandarpunch - In search for wonders, real and imagined 10 Apr 2020
    • 19 Mar 2020 Student's Corner: Pondy - The South Indian Gem 19 Mar 2020
    • 14 Mar 2020 Indian Railways: A photographic journey 14 Mar 2020
    • 9 Mar 2020 Barsana Bhog: The legendary Holi celebrations of Braj 9 Mar 2020
    • 1 Mar 2020 Northeast Delhi Riots and the charred smell of Fear 1 Mar 2020
    • 27 Feb 2020 Pardesi Pahadi: Kedar Tal - Finding magic in the Himalaya 27 Feb 2020
    • 11 Feb 2020 Pardesi Pahadi: The frozen, lost paths to Bali Pass 11 Feb 2020
    • 5 Feb 2020 Achieving Zero: The loud silences of art from the 2020 India Art Fair 5 Feb 2020
    • 3 Jan 2020 Pardesi Pahadi: Nanda Devi - A glimpse of the Himalayan Goddess 3 Jan 2020
    • 19 Dec 2019 The Forgotten Town of Opulent Seths 19 Dec 2019
    • 8 Nov 2019 This Is Goa 8 Nov 2019
  • Podcast
    • 17 Dec 2022 The Best of 2022 - What’s The Chakkar? 17 Dec 2022
    • 10 Nov 2022 G.N. Devy, Ahmer, and Laal Singh Chaddha - What’s The Chakkar? 10 Nov 2022
    • 19 Sept 2022 Jayanth Kaikini, Darlings, and Parekh & Singh - What’s The Chakkar? 19 Sept 2022
    • 18 Aug 2022 Shrayana Bhattacharya, Blackstratblues, and Indian Predator - What’s The Chakkar? 18 Aug 2022
    • 16 Jul 2022 Dinesh C. Sharma, Goatsmoke, and Panchayat - What’s The Chakkar? 16 Jul 2022
    • 16 Jun 2022 Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar, Geetanjali Shree, and Shikhar - What’s The Chakkar? 16 Jun 2022
    • 23 May 2022 The Revisit Project, Guilty Minds, and Nev March - What’s The Chakkar? 23 May 2022
    • 26 Apr 2022 Josy Joseph, Rocket Boys, and Bloodywood - What’s The Chakkar? 26 Apr 2022
    • 25 Mar 2022 Mir Kashif Iqbal, Gehraiyaan, and Chandan Pandey - What’s The Chakkar? 25 Mar 2022
    • 20 Feb 2022 Krupa Ge, 83, and Aditi Ramesh - What’s The Chakkar? 20 Feb 2022
    • 22 Jan 2022 Decoupled, Amyt Datta, and Neel Mukherjee - What’s The Chakkar? 22 Jan 2022
    • 30 Dec 2021 The Best of 2021 - What’s The Chakkar? 30 Dec 2021
    • 29 Nov 2021 Mocaine, R.K. Narayan, and Sardar Udham - What’s The Chakkar? 29 Nov 2021
    • 28 Oct 2021 Wendy Doniger, Lagaan, and Dot. - What’s The Chakkar? 28 Oct 2021
    • 26 Sept 2021 Tinctures, The Disciple, and Suchitra Vijayan - What’s The Chakkar? 26 Sept 2021
    • 24 Aug 2021 S. Hareesh, Tejas, and The Family Man - What’s The Chakkar? 24 Aug 2021
    • 25 Jul 2021 Ray, Irfana & Taslina, and Albert Camus - What’s The Chakkar? 25 Jul 2021
    • 25 Jun 2021 Ramya Pothuri, Peter Wohlleben, and Pagglait - What's The Chakkar? 25 Jun 2021
    • 21 May 2021 Namit Arora, Project Mishram, and OK Computer - What's The Chakkar? 21 May 2021
    • 14 Apr 2021 Punk on Toast, Lori Gottlieb, and Deshdrohi - What's The Chakkar? 14 Apr 2021
    • 24 Mar 2021 Abdon Mech, AK VS AK, and Annie Zaidi - What's The Chakkar? 24 Mar 2021
    • 22 Feb 2021 Welcome Home, When Chai Met Toast, and Aravind Adiga - What's The Chakkar? 22 Feb 2021
    • 22 Jan 2021 Pradeep Damodaran, Lifafa, and Cargo - What's The Chakkar? 22 Jan 2021
    • 18 Dec 2020 Divine, Samit Basu, and Scam 1992 - What’s The Chakkar? 18 Dec 2020
    • 20 Nov 2020 Khwaab, Nisha Susan, and Mirzapur - What’s The Chakkar? 20 Nov 2020
  • Sports/Outdoor
    • 2 Oct 2022 Leader of the Deep Waters 2 Oct 2022
    • 12 Feb 2022 A Havoc in the Himalaya 12 Feb 2022
    • 7 Dec 2021 The Fantastic World of Indian Fungi 7 Dec 2021
    • 28 Aug 2021 Travelling Without Footprints 28 Aug 2021
    • 13 Jun 2021 “When you train hard, the fight can be easy” 13 Jun 2021
    • 9 Jun 2021 Pardesi Pahadi: Splendour and Survival at Sahastra Tal 9 Jun 2021
    • 4 Jun 2021 Asha 4 Jun 2021
    • 9 May 2021 Stumped in the Bubble 9 May 2021
    • 28 Dec 2020 Pardesi Pahadi: Avalanche on Apharwat 28 Dec 2020
    • 22 Sept 2020 Pardesi Pahadi: Raja’s Hut and the Kashmir of Iron Khan 22 Sept 2020
    • 27 Aug 2020 Vishesh Bhriguvanshi: Arjuna on the Hardwood 27 Aug 2020
    • 19 Aug 2020 Lights, Camera, and Gold Medals 19 Aug 2020
    • 4 Jul 2020 Cricket on Screen: The good, bad and ugly of Cricket in Bollywood 4 Jul 2020
    • 17 Jun 2020 Pardesi Pahadi: Five books on the Himalaya and other Mountains 17 Jun 2020
    • 2 Jun 2020 Shyama's Cattle: Ode to a Himalayan friendship 2 Jun 2020
    • 12 May 2020 Student's Corner: Sports as a unifying element in India 12 May 2020
    • 10 Apr 2020 Pardesi Pahadi: Ascent to Bandarpunch - In search for wonders, real and imagined 10 Apr 2020
    • 27 Feb 2020 Pardesi Pahadi: Kedar Tal - Finding magic in the Himalaya 27 Feb 2020
    • 11 Feb 2020 Pardesi Pahadi: The frozen, lost paths to Bali Pass 11 Feb 2020
    • 13 Jan 2020 SHE DARED: A celebration of Indian women athletes 13 Jan 2020
    • 3 Jan 2020 Pardesi Pahadi: Nanda Devi - A glimpse of the Himalayan Goddess 3 Jan 2020
    • 11 Dec 2019 Excerpt: ‘WILD HIMALAYA: A Natural History of the Greatest Mountain Range on Earth’ 11 Dec 2019
  • Full Circle
    • 1 Feb 2022 Full Circle: Ahlawat Gunjan on the Wondrous World of Book Cover Design 1 Feb 2022
    • 4 Dec 2021 Full Circle: Greeny Francis on Theatre as Intervention 4 Dec 2021
    • 21 Oct 2021 Full Circle: Lakshya Datta, The Voice of Romance 21 Oct 2021
    • 1 Oct 2021 Full Circle: Shaleen Wadhwana on Art History in a Digital World 1 Oct 2021
    • 26 Aug 2021 Full Circle: Amardeep Behl on the Narrative Experiences in Space 26 Aug 2021
  • Golchakkar
    • 24 Oct 2021 Golchakkar: Dispatches from Australia 24 Oct 2021
    • 16 Sept 2021 Golchakkar: The Evolving Pathways of Publishing 16 Sept 2021
    • 12 Aug 2021 Golchakkar: Indian Literature from a Queer Lens 12 Aug 2021
    • 19 Jul 2021 Golchakkar: Dispatches from Latin America 19 Jul 2021
    • 19 Jun 2021 Golchakkar: Graphic Narratives from India 19 Jun 2021
    • 16 May 2021 Golchakkar: Poetry and the Pandemic 16 May 2021
    • 4 Apr 2021 Golchakkar: Imagining Place in Literature 4 Apr 2021
    • 14 Mar 2021 Golchakkar: Mother Tongues in a Global Context 14 Mar 2021
    • 7 Feb 2021 Golchakkar: Indian Dispatches from Europe 7 Feb 2021
    • 18 Jan 2021 Golchakkar: Indian Poetry from the Lockdown 18 Jan 2021
    • 12 Dec 2020 Golchakkar: Experiments in Indian Flash Fiction 12 Dec 2020
    • 15 Nov 2020 Golchakkar: The Non-Indian in Indian Literature 15 Nov 2020
    • 19 Oct 2020 Golchakkar: Open Your Eyes—Poetry’s Response to Climate Change 19 Oct 2020
  • Film
    • 22 Sept 2020 Pardesi Pahadi: Raja’s Hut and the Kashmir of Iron Khan 22 Sept 2020
  • Student's Corner
    • 8 Jun 2020 Student's Corner: Back to Wasseypur 8 Jun 2020
    • 12 May 2020 Student's Corner: Sports as a unifying element in India 12 May 2020
    • 19 Mar 2020 Student's Corner: Pondy - The South Indian Gem 19 Mar 2020
    • 9 Dec 2019 Student's Corner: How the Bhagwad Gita can be a bestseller for children 9 Dec 2019
  • Film/TV
    • 19 Jan 2025 ‘Shockingly Beautiful’: Ranking the Best of Bollywood in 2024 19 Jan 2025
    • 12 Jan 2025 The many dichotomies of ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT 12 Jan 2025
    • 23 Oct 2024 Lost Women and Found Freedoms 23 Oct 2024
    • 10 Sept 2024 Mythological Narratives, Scientific Imaginations 10 Sept 2024
    • 3 Sept 2024 The Grand Cinema of Taking Offense 3 Sept 2024
    • 22 Jul 2024 Gone Girls 22 Jul 2024
    • 24 Jun 2024 No Monkeying Around 24 Jun 2024
    • 4 Jun 2024 A Caste-Ridden Society, in Checkmate 4 Jun 2024
    • 19 May 2024 Art, Defanged 19 May 2024
    • 25 Mar 2024 The Interplay of Fear and Courage in WHILE WE WATCHED 25 Mar 2024
    • 19 Mar 2024 Luck, Chance, and Cinema 19 Mar 2024
    • 8 Mar 2024 Silver Screen Circus 8 Mar 2024
    • 2 Mar 2024 Chef’s Kiss 2 Mar 2024
    • 1 Feb 2024 DRY DAY: A Tale of Political and Personal Prohibitions 1 Feb 2024
    • 28 Dec 2023 GOLDFISH: An Intimate Exploration of Family, Dementia, and Dysfunction 28 Dec 2023
    • 14 Dec 2023 Courage Becomes Cruelty: An Appropriation of “Arjan Vailly” in ANIMAL 14 Dec 2023
    • 10 Dec 2023 How Mammootty—the ‘Megastar’—Redefined Stardom 10 Dec 2023
    • 1 Nov 2023 Black Water and Black Hearts: The Politics of Citizenship in KAALA PAANI 1 Nov 2023
    • 18 Aug 2023 Garmi: A scorching drama on Indian Campus Politics 18 Aug 2023
    • 20 Jul 2023 A Profound Slow Burn 20 Jul 2023
    • 7 Mar 2023 Good Cop / Good Cop 7 Mar 2023
    • 20 Nov 2022 The Rockstar Catalysts 20 Nov 2022
    • 22 Oct 2022 A Grand Unified Theory of Aamir Khan 22 Oct 2022
    • 10 Sept 2022 The Idyllic Indian Village, Interrupted 10 Sept 2022
    • 18 Jul 2022 PANCHAYAT is a throwback that looks ahead 18 Jul 2022
    • 27 Jun 2022 A city translated through the languages of love 27 Jun 2022
    • 10 Jun 2022 An Age of Unreason: The Kashmir Files and The War on Information 10 Jun 2022
    • 11 Apr 2022 In BADHAAI DO, a small story asks big, bold questions 11 Apr 2022
    • 31 Mar 2022 The Great Indian Waste of Potential 31 Mar 2022
    • 19 Mar 2022 A Mature Portrayal of Science and Sensibility 19 Mar 2022
    • 1 Jan 2022 A BUNTY AUR BABLI for the Millennials 1 Jan 2022
    • 24 Dec 2021 The Women Behind the Screen: Anubha Yadav discusses her book SCRIPTING BOLLYWOOD 24 Dec 2021
    • 26 Nov 2021 The Past Superimposed upon the Present: Shoojit Sircar’s SARDAR UDHAM 26 Nov 2021
    • 12 Nov 2021 The ‘Secrets’ beyond a compelling Indian true-crime series 12 Nov 2021
    • 3 Nov 2021 Watch: THE LESSER CITIZENS, a short documentary about migrant labourers in Kerala 3 Nov 2021
    • 13 Sept 2021 THE DISCIPLE and Labours of Being Alive 13 Sept 2021
    • 15 Jul 2021 Skating Past Caste Tensions: How a Documentary Captured the ‘Wings’ of Change in an Indian village 15 Jul 2021
    • 9 Jul 2021 A roaring commentary on Indian Wildlife 9 Jul 2021
    • 7 Jul 2021 Life and Love through the Prism of Death 7 Jul 2021
    • 1 Jul 2021 TVF’s continuing ‘Aspiration’ as the voice of India’s Youth 1 Jul 2021
    • 26 May 2021 Thirteen Days of Mourning and Music, Death and Life 26 May 2021
    • 13 May 2021 The Long, Dark Chai-Time of the Soul 13 May 2021
    • 28 Apr 2021 Stranger Lives: AJEEB DAASTAANS—four uneven short films on life, love, and intersectionality 28 Apr 2021
    • 1 Apr 2021 The Inscrutable Oddity of Youth 1 Apr 2021
    • 11 Mar 2021 The Kitchen and the Cage 11 Mar 2021
    • 24 Feb 2021 Heroes and “Heroes”: AK VS AK and the blossoming of Meta-Cinema in Bollywood 24 Feb 2021
    • 14 Feb 2021 The Weight of Love: “Sir” and the delicate balance of an uneven romance 14 Feb 2021
    • 31 Jan 2021 Indian Tiger, Foreign Gaze 31 Jan 2021
    • 28 Jan 2021 Bringing Back the Popcorn: Is the future of Indian Films in OTT or the Theatre? 28 Jan 2021
    • 30 Dec 2020 The Next Episodes: The Best Indian web series in a year of OTT excellence 30 Dec 2020
    • 23 Dec 2020 Beyond Rom-Com: Finding the Unexpected in MISMATCHED 23 Dec 2020
    • 15 Dec 2020 Mass Entertainment Outrage 15 Dec 2020
    • 9 Dec 2020 SCAM 1992: A Time-Capsule of Crooked Ambition 9 Dec 2020
    • 7 Dec 2020 Jaa… Jee Le Apni Zindagi: On Fathers Confronting Feminism in Hindi Cinema 7 Dec 2020
    • 3 Dec 2020 The Story of the Aashrams Behind AASHRAM 3 Dec 2020
    • 11 Nov 2020 Blood Spilled and Blood Shared 11 Nov 2020
    • 10 Oct 2020 Scandal, Sex, and Skeletons: Aashram and the predictable villainy of on-screen godmen 10 Oct 2020
    • 29 Sept 2020 A Voice that Crossed Over; A Voice of a Generation 29 Sept 2020
    • 20 Sept 2020 The Sacrifices of Matrimony in A Suitable Boy 20 Sept 2020
    • 8 Sept 2020 Bulbbul: A Hypnotic Ride into the Horrors of Patriarchy 8 Sept 2020
    • 19 Aug 2020 Lights, Camera, and Gold Medals 19 Aug 2020
    • 5 Aug 2020 Sima Auntie’s Inconvenient Arrangements 5 Aug 2020
    • 27 Jul 2020 Bol! Ye thoda waqt bahut hai: Finding timeless poetry on the contemporary screen 27 Jul 2020
    • 15 Jul 2020 In the driver’s seat: A toast to the Everyday Woman in Gulabo Sitabo 15 Jul 2020
    • 4 Jul 2020 Cricket on Screen: The good, bad and ugly of Cricket in Bollywood 4 Jul 2020
    • 28 Jun 2020 Lyrical Cacophony: Sexuality and Objectification in Bollywood’s ‘Item Numbers’ 28 Jun 2020
    • 25 Jun 2020 Existence Is Resistance: How AXONE breaks barriers for Northeast representation in Bollywood 25 Jun 2020
    • 23 Jun 2020 The World According to Chippa 23 Jun 2020
    • 9 Jun 2020 City On Screen: Banaras to Varanasi 9 Jun 2020
    • 8 Jun 2020 Student's Corner: Back to Wasseypur 8 Jun 2020
    • 23 May 2020 The Weird and the Woeful 23 May 2020
    • 16 May 2020 Transcendence or trap: The pitfalls of Imtiaz Ali's SHE 16 May 2020
    • 3 May 2020 In His Second Skin: Roles that defined Irrfan Khan’s unmatched acting talent 3 May 2020
    • 28 Apr 2020 A gust of freedom: Water, Gender, and Caste in HELLARO 28 Apr 2020
    • 16 Apr 2020 A Hanumanic Leap: Why we must let India's mythological epics evolve beyond religion 16 Apr 2020
    • 23 Mar 2020 Yeh Meri (TV) Family 23 Mar 2020
    • 16 Mar 2020 Her Favourite Colour: How a ‘small’ incident in THAPPAD reveals the complex roots of Indian marriage and patriarchy 16 Mar 2020
    • 21 Feb 2020 In JAWAANI JANEMAN, Bollywood wrestles - and loses - with the idea of accepting an alternative lifestyle 21 Feb 2020
    • 8 Feb 2020 City On Screen: Bombay to Mumbai 8 Feb 2020
    • 19 Jan 2020 Fear and Loathing – and fact and fiction – in MEHSAMPUR 19 Jan 2020
    • 6 Jan 2020 The Decade in Hindi Cinema 6 Jan 2020
    • 23 Dec 2019 Why Netflix's LITTLE THINGS is a perfect showcase of Indian millennial relationships 23 Dec 2019
    • 18 Nov 2019 Excerpt: ‘Music, Masti, Modernity: The Cinema of Nasir Husain’ 18 Nov 2019
  • Creativity
    • 16 Jan 2025 Mr./Ms. Anonymous – An Excerpt from THE MYSTERY OF THE SILKY WAVES 16 Jan 2025
    • 6 Jan 2025 Fate, Fortune, and a Life-Affirming Encounter with the Work of Navjot Altaf 6 Jan 2025
    • 31 Dec 2024 After the Ocean 31 Dec 2024
    • 22 Dec 2024 TEN INDIAN CLASSICS: Selections from ‘Selected Ghazals and Other Poems’ by Mir Taqi Mir 22 Dec 2024
    • 19 Dec 2024 Reflection 19 Dec 2024
    • 12 Dec 2024 ‘Moisture Appends the Subtext’: Three Poems by Tabish Nawaz 12 Dec 2024
    • 29 Nov 2024 ‘Almost Interpretable, Almost Bearable’: Four poems by Sambhu R. 29 Nov 2024
    • 26 Nov 2024 Punarmilāma 26 Nov 2024
    • 12 Nov 2024 Preparing for Another Life: Four Poems by Ankush Banerjee 12 Nov 2024
    • 7 Nov 2024 Unspoken Inheritance 7 Nov 2024
    • 3 Nov 2024 A Thousand Cuts: Two Poems by Carol D’Souza 3 Nov 2024
    • 28 Oct 2024 Words, rain, Mozart: Three Poems by Sunil Sharma 28 Oct 2024
    • 25 Oct 2024 A Recoiled Thunderstorm: Three Poems by Kashiana Singh 25 Oct 2024
    • 10 Oct 2024 A Cosmic Dance 10 Oct 2024
    • 29 Sept 2024 Frogs 29 Sept 2024
    • 19 Sept 2024 The Litanies of Your Imaginations: Three Poems by Panchami 19 Sept 2024
    • 6 Sept 2024 Yesterday’s Rain: Six Poems by Sakkho Goon 6 Sept 2024
    • 24 Aug 2024 A Better Place to Rest: Three Poems by Kiriti Sengupta 24 Aug 2024
    • 16 Aug 2024 Halima – Segregating Junk 16 Aug 2024
    • 12 Aug 2024 Hearts Marinated in Lies: Two Poems by Vrinda Bansal 12 Aug 2024
    • 6 Aug 2024 Prayers to Peace: Three poems by Smita Agarwal 6 Aug 2024
    • 31 Jul 2024 Mother of All Beings 31 Jul 2024
    • 29 Jul 2024 ‘A Knot that Would Not Unknot’ – Two Poems by Gopi Kottoor 29 Jul 2024
    • 20 Jul 2024 Holding Hands with the Stars: Five Poems by Sayan Aich Bhowmik 20 Jul 2024
    • 13 Jul 2024 House of Quiet 13 Jul 2024
    • 6 Jul 2024 Two Fridas: Two Poems by Shreya Sharma 6 Jul 2024
    • 3 Jul 2024 Kolkata Feasts or Firewood: Three Poems by Shome Dasgupta 3 Jul 2024
    • 22 Jun 2024 Paeans 22 Jun 2024
    • 13 Jun 2024 “Did you shave off your moustache?” 13 Jun 2024
    • 9 Jun 2024 ‘A Claim to Dawns’: Two Poems by Carol D’Souza 9 Jun 2024
    • 6 Jun 2024 All That the Kaveri Washes Away 6 Jun 2024
    • 31 May 2024 ‘You’re Also a Part of a Whole’: Poetry by Vikram Kolmannskog 31 May 2024
    • 28 May 2024 Maya Blue 28 May 2024
    • 25 May 2024 Cities That Walked – An Excerpt 25 May 2024
    • 22 May 2024 Days Are Whirlpools: Three Poems by K.S. Subramanian 22 May 2024
    • 11 May 2024 The World from my Window: Three Poems by Mary Tina Shamli Pillay 11 May 2024
    • 1 May 2024 Chris Rock to Kunal Kamra: My Transformation into a Comedy Uncle 1 May 2024
    • 28 Apr 2024 The Syntax of Time’s Wheel: Three Poems by Sunkara Gopal 28 Apr 2024
    • 22 Mar 2024 A Symbiotic Dance of Survival and Reverence 22 Mar 2024
    • 24 Feb 2024 Dreams of Californication 24 Feb 2024
    • 20 Feb 2024 Name 20 Feb 2024
    • 16 Feb 2024 Inheritance, from Loss 16 Feb 2024
    • 12 Feb 2024 Here and Now: Two Poems by Chintan Girish Modi 12 Feb 2024
    • 7 Feb 2024 Echoes of Winter 7 Feb 2024
    • 3 Feb 2024 When Azaleas Bloom: A Series of Poems by Nikhat Jonak 3 Feb 2024
    • 25 Jan 2024 why must i sleep at night? 25 Jan 2024
    • 23 Jan 2024 The Fear of Being Loved 23 Jan 2024
    • 19 Jan 2024 The Consolation of Ruins: Five Poems by Paromita Patranobish 19 Jan 2024
    • 16 Jan 2024 In Goa, Serendipity and the Self 16 Jan 2024
    • 14 Jan 2024 ‘A Day-Long Cloudburst’ – Two poems by Kiriti Sengupta 14 Jan 2024
    • 10 Jan 2024 The Obvious 10 Jan 2024
    • 7 Jan 2024 An Outing 7 Jan 2024
    • 1 Jan 2024 Amulets of Resistance: Two Poems by Kashiana Singh 1 Jan 2024
    • 22 Dec 2023 The Migrating Verse 22 Dec 2023
    • 17 Dec 2023 ‘On the wings of the seraph’: Two poems by Preeti Manaktala 17 Dec 2023
    • 8 Dec 2023 A Life on the Fringes of Cricket Madness 8 Dec 2023
    • 4 Dec 2023 Blood, Sweat, Tears 4 Dec 2023
    • 1 Dec 2023 Anamorphosis 1 Dec 2023
    • 17 Nov 2023 Odes to Autumn: Two Poems by Anushri Nanavati 17 Nov 2023
    • 12 Nov 2023 A Jasmine Trail 12 Nov 2023
    • 9 Oct 2023 “Renewals” and other poems by Sunil Sharma 9 Oct 2023
    • 6 Oct 2023 The Remedy 6 Oct 2023
    • 18 Sept 2023 Roots 18 Sept 2023
    • 16 Sept 2023 Resident Alien 16 Sept 2023
    • 8 Sept 2023 A Pair of Jhumkas 8 Sept 2023
    • 6 Sept 2023 The Security Guard 6 Sept 2023
    • 31 Aug 2023 Black Plums and a Purple Heart 31 Aug 2023
    • 27 Aug 2023 The Queen And I—An Excerpt from YAARI 27 Aug 2023
    • 25 Aug 2023 “Loom” and other poems by Jahnavi Gogoi 25 Aug 2023
    • 21 Aug 2023 Leaving Bannu 21 Aug 2023
    • 16 Aug 2023 Bites from the Market 16 Aug 2023
    • 12 Aug 2023 A Spectacular Map 12 Aug 2023
    • 7 Aug 2023 A Souvenir from The Taj 7 Aug 2023
    • 4 Aug 2023 A Cape of Memories: Three poems by Bharti Bansal 4 Aug 2023
    • 31 Jul 2023 Foregoing the bygones 31 Jul 2023
    • 27 Jul 2023 Burning 27 Jul 2023
    • 23 Jul 2023 Arrested Eyesight: Three poems by Vasundhara Parashar 23 Jul 2023
    • 18 Jul 2023 ‘Saw Eternity, Eroded’: Six poems by Dion D’Souza 18 Jul 2023
    • 7 Jul 2023 Ordinary Masons, Who Paint a Sun on the Sky 7 Jul 2023
    • 25 Jun 2023 Stargazing 25 Jun 2023
    • 20 Jun 2023 ‘A crucified alphabet of crossed out names’: Four poems by Ajay Kumar 20 Jun 2023
    • 17 Jun 2023 Blood Relation 17 Jun 2023
    • 9 Apr 2023 A Place of No Return 9 Apr 2023
    • 31 Mar 2023 Thoroughfare 31 Mar 2023
    • 22 Mar 2023 The Secret Name 22 Mar 2023
    • 19 Mar 2023 It Thrives in Winter 19 Mar 2023
    • 16 Mar 2023 Discovering Vincent 16 Mar 2023
    • 4 Mar 2023 ‘How dangerously rejuvenating it feels’ – Two poems by Nikhat Jonak 4 Mar 2023
    • 1 Mar 2023 The Burden of Beauty: An Open Letter to Shah Jahan 1 Mar 2023
    • 26 Feb 2023 Excerpts: MY BODY IS NOT A VESSEL by Shamayita Sen 26 Feb 2023
    • 9 Feb 2023 Every Door, A Tender Veil: A photo-essay by Poornima Laxmeshwar 9 Feb 2023
    • 3 Feb 2023 A Study in Pink 3 Feb 2023
    • 29 Jan 2023 Bonds 29 Jan 2023
    • 27 Jan 2023 Excerpt: THE STORY OF JONAH STONE by Amrit 27 Jan 2023
    • 26 Jan 2023 Boulevard of Time 26 Jan 2023
    • 18 Jan 2023 Now Serene, Now Solitary: Three poems by Anam Tariq 18 Jan 2023
    • 15 Jan 2023 Time, Immortality, and the Art of Letterpress Printing 15 Jan 2023
    • 6 Jan 2023 P is for Patna: An Alphabet of Hope for my hometown 6 Jan 2023
    • 2 Jan 2023 Broken Dawns and Unfinished Nights – Two poems by Mitra Samal 2 Jan 2023
    • 31 Dec 2022 Lotus 31 Dec 2022
  • Misc.
    • 9 Jan 2025 The Trees of Our Land 9 Jan 2025
    • 9 Dec 2024 Calcutta’s Chromosome, Hidden in Plain Sight 9 Dec 2024
    • 23 Nov 2024 The ‘Sentinels’ of Tomorrow 23 Nov 2024
    • 10 Nov 2024 In Language, Colonial Kolkata Stays Alive 10 Nov 2024
    • 15 Sept 2024 The Legend of Café Samovar, Mumbai’s Melting Pot of Cozy Camaraderie 15 Sept 2024
    • 25 Jul 2024 The Summer of Heat Islands 25 Jul 2024
    • 25 Apr 2024 Where is the Work? 25 Apr 2024
    • 10 Feb 2024 Snowless in the Himalaya 10 Feb 2024
    • 29 Nov 2023 Troubled Waters 29 Nov 2023
    • 12 Feb 2023 The Growth Malaise 12 Feb 2023
    • 4 May 2022 The Decline That Wasn’t 4 May 2022
    • 5 Apr 2022 The Maya and the Meta 5 Apr 2022
    • 8 Mar 2022 Empowering The Marginalised 8 Mar 2022
    • 19 Jan 2022 Should we ever return to our offices again? 19 Jan 2022
    • 13 Dec 2021 Do You Hate This Ad? Spotify and the Self-Reflexivity of Advertising 13 Dec 2021
    • 18 Oct 2021 What Makes a Modern Indian Minimalist? 18 Oct 2021
    • 23 Jul 2021 Mental Health in India: Purity, Pollution, Caste, and Mental Health 23 Jul 2021
    • 17 Jun 2021 Selective Scarcity: A Queer Lens at India’s Health Care Imbalance 17 Jun 2021
    • 11 Jun 2021 A Tale of Two Pandemics: COVID and Disinformation 11 Jun 2021
    • 1 Jun 2021 How Happy Is Your Timeline? 1 Jun 2021
    • 18 May 2021 Reclaiming the Lost House of Oudh 18 May 2021
    • 16 Mar 2021 Mental Health in India: Academic Spaces as Centres of Well-Being and Resilience 16 Mar 2021
    • 9 Feb 2021 The Uncredited Authors of India’s Growth Story 9 Feb 2021
    • 24 Jan 2021 ‘We Shall Not Live Half-Asleep’: Glimpses of Revolution from the Farmers’ Protests 24 Jan 2021
    • 9 Jan 2021 Mental Health in India: Gaps in mental health care for India’s LGBTQ+ community 9 Jan 2021
    • 26 Nov 2020 Mental Health in India: Religion and mental health distress 26 Nov 2020
    • 31 Oct 2020 India’s Prevention Paradox 31 Oct 2020
    • 13 Oct 2020 Mental Health in India: Capitalism, Productivity and Mental Health Distress  13 Oct 2020
    • 1 Oct 2020 The Crumbling Fourth Pillar 1 Oct 2020
    • 5 Sept 2020 Mental Health in India: Looking Through a Filter of Colonialism and Casteism 5 Sept 2020
    • 31 Aug 2020 India's Wait for the COVID-19 Vaccine and Economic Concerns Post-Lockdown 31 Aug 2020
    • 13 Aug 2020 What Happens After the Vaccine? 13 Aug 2020
    • 7 Jul 2020 The Disaster and the Displaced 7 Jul 2020
    • 15 Jun 2020 Stained Khaki: The roots and aggravations of police brutality 15 Jun 2020
    • 19 May 2020 The Vulnerable 50% 19 May 2020
    • 30 Apr 2020 The Mahatma in Mussoorie 30 Apr 2020
    • 7 Apr 2020 Mussoorie Writers: Tales From Sikander Hall by Lillian Skinner Singh 7 Apr 2020
    • 2 Apr 2020 The Indian Government Handbook to Fighting Coronavirus: An illustrated six-step journey 2 Apr 2020
    • 11 Mar 2020 The Redesign of New Delhi’s Central Vista, and the Colonial Stripes of Narendra Modi 11 Mar 2020
    • 16 Feb 2020 The Manic Medley of the Maximum City 16 Feb 2020
    • 29 Dec 2019 The Indigestible Politics and Violence of Food in India 29 Dec 2019
  • Art
    • 6 Jan 2025 Fate, Fortune, and a Life-Affirming Encounter with the Work of Navjot Altaf 6 Jan 2025
    • 25 Dec 2024 A River to Flow Through Us All 25 Dec 2024
    • 13 Apr 2024 Queens of the Hills 13 Apr 2024
    • 11 Apr 2024 Spiritual Homecomings: Shalmali Shetty on her curatorial project “The nights will follow the days” 11 Apr 2024
    • 16 Jan 2024 In Goa, Serendipity and the Self 16 Jan 2024
    • 21 Oct 2023 Ink(ed) on Flat Surfaces: A Show on Studio Practice 21 Oct 2023
    • 18 Oct 2023 With Great Ease: A Celebration of T.S. Satyan’s Photographic Gaze 18 Oct 2023
    • 3 Jul 2023 Toy Story 3 Jul 2023
    • 10 Mar 2023 An International Collage of Art and Artists 10 Mar 2023
    • 7 Feb 2023 The Beauty of Two Souls: The Rise of Customized Art 7 Feb 2023
    • 10 Jan 2023 At Manchester, a permanent celebration of the South Asian Diaspora 10 Jan 2023
    • 24 Dec 2022 A Century of Artistic Synthesis and Reinterpretations 24 Dec 2022
    • 2 Dec 2022 On the Crossroads of Art and Spirituality 2 Dec 2022
    • 26 Nov 2022 Gopi Gajwani, a Modernist product of Partition 26 Nov 2022
    • 7 Nov 2022 Metaphors for Larger Ruptures: The collected art of WOMAN IS AS WOMEN DOES 7 Nov 2022
    • 2 Nov 2022 The Artist and The Anthropocene 2 Nov 2022
    • 8 Sept 2022 The Cityscape in M. Pravat’s ‘Concrete Dusk’ 8 Sept 2022
    • 28 Jul 2022 A telling of our times: The art of Ashok Bhowmick 28 Jul 2022
    • 21 Jul 2022 Indian Art Under the Company’s Shadow 21 Jul 2022
    • 19 May 2022 Gameplay with an Artistic Heart 19 May 2022
    • 14 May 2022 Connecting the Dots: The art of Manisha Gera Baswani 14 May 2022
    • 30 Apr 2022 A Celebration of 1,300 years of Islamic Art 30 Apr 2022
    • 18 Apr 2022 ‘I Float, You Rise’: The art of Rahul Chauhan 18 Apr 2022
    • 16 Apr 2022 TRUTH DREAM: Breaking Gender Norms through a Phantasmagoria of Lived Desire 16 Apr 2022
    • 9 Apr 2022 Art and Ecology: Listening to the voice of art collectives in Assam 9 Apr 2022
    • 7 Apr 2022 Flights of Fancy: Kothandaraman Sambandan’s Journey in Art 7 Apr 2022
    • 14 Feb 2022 The Dark Webs of Jogen Chowdhury 14 Feb 2022
    • 1 Feb 2022 Full Circle: Ahlawat Gunjan on the Wondrous World of Book Cover Design 1 Feb 2022
    • 10 Jan 2022 The Women and the Safety Pin 10 Jan 2022
    • 7 Jan 2022 A Mumbai inspired by ‘The New Yorker’ 7 Jan 2022
    • 21 Dec 2021 With ‘Episteme’, Ten Indian Artists Translate the Language of Now 21 Dec 2021
    • 10 Dec 2021 The Studio as a Canvas: Sanoop P.C.’s Poetry of Impermanence 10 Dec 2021
    • 5 Nov 2021 The dawdling, gentle beauty of Aman Poddar’s patterns 5 Nov 2021
    • 1 Oct 2021 Full Circle: Shaleen Wadhwana on Art History in a Digital World 1 Oct 2021
    • 28 Sept 2021 Distorted Images: Caste, Sexuality, and History in the art of Keerthana Chandragiri 28 Sept 2021
    • 26 Aug 2021 Full Circle: Amardeep Behl on the Narrative Experiences in Space 26 Aug 2021
    • 27 Jul 2021 Raja Ravi Varma, Retold for Children 27 Jul 2021
    • 23 May 2021 The Transformational Joy of Art: In memoriam of Shakti Maira 23 May 2021
    • 5 Dec 2020 Life in the Bubbles: Dhruvi Acharya’s Pandemic Art 5 Dec 2020
    • 17 Nov 2020 Leaving Behind the Stardust: Inder Salim and a life sacrificed to art 17 Nov 2020
    • 7 May 2020 Masterpieces Under Our Feet 7 May 2020
    • 5 Feb 2020 Achieving Zero: The loud silences of art from the 2020 India Art Fair 5 Feb 2020
  • Literature
    • 22 Dec 2024 TEN INDIAN CLASSICS: Selections from ‘Selected Ghazals and Other Poems’ by Mir Taqi Mir 22 Dec 2024
    • 9 Dec 2024 Calcutta’s Chromosome, Hidden in Plain Sight 9 Dec 2024
    • 5 Dec 2024 BLASPHEAR by Sohail Rauf: Religion, Fear, and the Cost of Silence 5 Dec 2024
    • 2 Dec 2024 Gopal Lahiri’s Poetry of Motion 2 Dec 2024
    • 20 Nov 2024 The Mathematical Values of Feeling Adrift 20 Nov 2024
    • 1 Nov 2024 A ‘Spicy’ Feast of Fantasy 1 Nov 2024
    • 19 Oct 2024 The Profound Metaphors of Inner Turmoil in Aparna Sanyal’s INSTRUMENTS OF TORTURE 19 Oct 2024
    • 16 Oct 2024 Voices of a Generation: An Interview with A.M. Gautam on INDIAN MILLENNIALS 16 Oct 2024
    • 14 Oct 2024 Down to EARTHA: Vinita Agrawal’s Poetic Conversation with Nature 14 Oct 2024
    • 12 Sept 2024 The City Must Die Before It’s Reborn: Varun Thomas Mathew’s THE BLACK DWARVES OF THE GOOD LITTLE BAY 12 Sept 2024
    • 18 Aug 2024 “I surrendered to the chaos”: An Interview with Tashan Mehta, author of MAD SISTERS OF ESI 18 Aug 2024
    • 9 Aug 2024 Rainbows on the Silver Screen 9 Aug 2024
    • 3 Aug 2024 “We All Share Human Experiences” – An Interview with K. Vaishali 3 Aug 2024
    • 16 Jul 2024 Celestial Broadcasts 16 Jul 2024
    • 10 Jul 2024 In the Unifying Language of Verse 10 Jul 2024
    • 1 Jul 2024 Obsession and Namelessness in Devibharathi’s THE SOLITUDE OF A SHADOW 1 Jul 2024
    • 27 Jun 2024 A Way of ‘Happening’: Amitava Kumar’s THE YELLOW BOOK 27 Jun 2024
    • 15 Jun 2024 “Sometimes silence works”: Words and Withdrawals in Kiriti Sengupta’s Oneness 15 Jun 2024
    • 19 May 2024 Art, Defanged 19 May 2024
    • 13 May 2024 Who Chooses Whom? The Book Buyer’s Conundrum 13 May 2024
    • 8 May 2024 A Chronicle of Mob Violence, Transgressions, and Social Media 8 May 2024
    • 4 May 2024 “I realized HURDA cannot be one person’s story”—An interview with Atharva Pandit 4 May 2024
    • 22 Apr 2024 Stepping Beyond the Boundaries: An Interview with Tishani Doshi 22 Apr 2024
    • 17 Mar 2024 Survival is an act of defiance 17 Mar 2024
    • 11 Mar 2024 In Our Own Voices: Queer Representation at the International Kolkata Book Fair 11 Mar 2024
    • 6 Mar 2024 “I Embrace My Bitterness” - An Interview with Abhishek Anicca 6 Mar 2024
    • 28 Jan 2024 To Live in a Language: An interview with Sumana Roy 28 Jan 2024
    • 5 Jan 2024 How Indian Publishers Pushed for Greater Diversity in 2023 5 Jan 2024
    • 26 Dec 2023 Dispossession and Discomfort in Vivek Shanbhag’s SAKINA’S KISS 26 Dec 2023
    • 19 Dec 2023 Ranjit Hoskote’s Shimmering Lights 19 Dec 2023
    • 22 Nov 2023 A Bombay That Demands More 22 Nov 2023
    • 15 Oct 2023 A Synthesis of Physics and Poetry 15 Oct 2023
    • 1 Oct 2023 Mightier than the Bullet: The Writings of Julio Riberio 1 Oct 2023
    • 23 Sept 2023 Arundhati Roy: A Troublemaker Needed for our Troubled Times 23 Sept 2023
    • 11 Sept 2023 Revolution on the Airwaves: An Account of India’s Tumultuous Radio History 11 Sept 2023
    • 14 Jul 2023 Comings and Goings: On the beauty of Amitabha Bagchi’s HALF THE NIGHT IS GONE 14 Jul 2023
    • 11 Jul 2023 A Compassionate Dissent: The poetry of Madhu Raghavendra 11 Jul 2023
    • 30 Jun 2023 THE MENDICANT PRINCE: A Women-centric retelling of the Bhawal Sannyasi Case 30 Jun 2023
    • 11 Jun 2023 A Civilization and its Stories: Salman Rushdie’s VICTORY CITY 11 Jun 2023
    • 18 Apr 2023 An Entwined Trajectory of Bombay and a Boy 18 Apr 2023
    • 25 Mar 2023 SHADOW CITY and ORIENTING: On the Road with Two Indian Women Across Asia 25 Mar 2023
    • 18 Feb 2023 “Translation Is a Continuum” – An Interview with Daisy Rockwell 18 Feb 2023
    • 21 Jan 2023 An Interview with ‘The Guysexual’—Aniruddha Mahale Gets Out 21 Jan 2023
    • 19 Jan 2023 The Undying Muse: Nivedita Dey’s LARKSPUR LANE 19 Jan 2023
    • 10 Dec 2022 A Poetic Clarion Call to the Feminine Presence—Nabina Das’ ‘Anima’ 10 Dec 2022
    • 25 Oct 2022 Tales from a Bloody Baisakhi 25 Oct 2022
    • 16 Sept 2022 Art Against the Algorithm: Vauhini Vara’s THE IMMORTAL KING RAO 16 Sept 2022
    • 10 Sept 2022 The Idyllic Indian Village, Interrupted 10 Sept 2022
    • 2 Sept 2022 Literary Reflections: Stories from India and Pakistan in THE OTHER IN THE MIRROR 2 Sept 2022
    • 27 Aug 2022 No one an outsider in the holy city 27 Aug 2022
    • 13 Aug 2022 A Forgotten Rebellion: The Royal Navy’s Mutiny of 1946 13 Aug 2022
    • 8 Aug 2022 Bleeding Past the Taboos: A new anthology on menstrual health in South Asia 8 Aug 2022
    • 4 Aug 2022 By the doorways of womanhood: The poetry of Kashiana Singh 4 Aug 2022
    • 10 Jul 2022 The Burning Embers of Petrofiction: Ilyas Ahmed Gaddi’s FIRE AREA 10 Jul 2022
    • 5 Jul 2022 In THE NUTMEG’S CURSE Amitav Ghosh gives voice to our ailing planet 5 Jul 2022
    • 6 Jun 2022 Authors of The Other: Social Realism in Indian Fiction 6 Jun 2022
    • 29 May 2022 Priya: The Brown-Skinned Supergirl to the Rescue 29 May 2022
    • 21 Apr 2022 The Ever-Moving Wheel: G.N. Devy on the Mahabharata 21 Apr 2022
    • 14 Apr 2022 Naming the Unnameable: Daribha Lyndem’s NAME PLACE ANIMAL THING 14 Apr 2022
    • 3 Apr 2022 Perumal Murugan Q&A: ‘It has always been my nature to go against the grain’ 3 Apr 2022
    • 28 Mar 2022 On the refractive indices of words: The poetry of Sridala Swami 28 Mar 2022
    • 22 Mar 2022 The Performance of Trauma in Fiction 22 Mar 2022
    • 16 Mar 2022 Literary Hoomans and their Best Friends 16 Mar 2022
    • 2 Mar 2022 Dreaming Among Debris 2 Mar 2022
    • 25 Feb 2022 Where the darkness blooms into jasmine: The poetry of Zilka Joseph 25 Feb 2022
    • 6 Feb 2022 Droughts and Disillusions: On the Life of Godavari Dange 6 Feb 2022
    • 1 Feb 2022 Full Circle: Ahlawat Gunjan on the Wondrous World of Book Cover Design 1 Feb 2022
    • 27 Jan 2022 ‘It’s Fair to Suggest that We Live in Two Indias’ – An Interview with Shashi Tharoor 27 Jan 2022
    • 24 Jan 2022 Pandemic, History, Democracy, and Chai: Previewing the Indian Non-Fiction Palette of 2022 24 Jan 2022
    • 16 Jan 2022 True Lies in the Heartlands: Chandan Pandey’s LEGAL FICTION 16 Jan 2022
    • 27 Dec 2021 2021: A Year in Reading 27 Dec 2021
    • 24 Dec 2021 The Women Behind the Screen: Anubha Yadav discusses her book SCRIPTING BOLLYWOOD 24 Dec 2021
    • 18 Nov 2021 Anuk Arudpragasm’s A PASSAGE NORTH is a Quiet Resistance Against Time 18 Nov 2021
    • 31 Oct 2021 The Birth of Mocaine’s New Dimensions 31 Oct 2021
    • 24 Oct 2021 Golchakkar: Dispatches from Australia 24 Oct 2021
    • 12 Oct 2021 The Framework of Dignity 12 Oct 2021
    • 7 Oct 2021 Beauty and Nothingness: The poetry of Sophia Naz 7 Oct 2021
    • 23 Sept 2021 The Women of Medicine: A Timely Archive of India’s Pathbreaking ‘Lady Doctors’ 23 Sept 2021
    • 16 Sept 2021 Golchakkar: The Evolving Pathways of Publishing 16 Sept 2021
    • 7 Sept 2021 A Girlhood Lost Under Occupation: Farah Bashir’s RUMOURS OF SPRING 7 Sept 2021
    • 4 Sept 2021 Love, Law, and Literature: A conversation with Danish Sheikh 4 Sept 2021
    • 21 Aug 2021 Moustache, or The Man Who Never Ends 21 Aug 2021
    • 12 Aug 2021 Golchakkar: Indian Literature from a Queer Lens 12 Aug 2021
    • 27 Jul 2021 Raja Ravi Varma, Retold for Children 27 Jul 2021
    • 21 Jul 2021 A Life Misspent: Kulli Bhaat’s Life, as seen through Nirala’s Heteronormative Gaze 21 Jul 2021
    • 19 Jul 2021 Golchakkar: Dispatches from Latin America 19 Jul 2021
    • 29 Jun 2021 ‘In fiction, one finds the opportunity to utter the unsayable’ – An exploration of Queer Literature from India 29 Jun 2021
    • 19 Jun 2021 Golchakkar: Graphic Narratives from India 19 Jun 2021
    • 7 Jun 2021 Men, Inclusion, and Feminism 7 Jun 2021
    • 29 May 2021 Other Words and Inner Worlds 29 May 2021
    • 16 May 2021 Golchakkar: Poetry and the Pandemic 16 May 2021
    • 4 May 2021 Manada Devi and the Literary Elevation of a ‘Fallen’ Woman 4 May 2021
    • 1 May 2021 Lovers and Borders: SKYFALL author Saba Karim Khan on Pakistan, India, politics, and craft 1 May 2021
    • 9 Apr 2021 Whose Freedoms are Our Freedoms? 9 Apr 2021
    • 6 Apr 2021 Saraf Ali Bhat’s Literature of Sorrow, Ignorance, and Enlightenment 6 Apr 2021
    • 4 Apr 2021 Golchakkar: Imagining Place in Literature 4 Apr 2021
    • 21 Mar 2021 From the Unsettled Dusts of Manipur 21 Mar 2021
    • 14 Mar 2021 Golchakkar: Mother Tongues in a Global Context 14 Mar 2021
    • 6 Mar 2021 A Riot in the Guise of Prose 6 Mar 2021
    • 20 Feb 2021 Boys and Men: BOYISH and a dialogue on Indian masculinity 20 Feb 2021
  • Music
    • 1 Sept 2024 We Need to Talk About Hanumankind 1 Sept 2024
    • 18 Jun 2024 ‘Afraid of Feeling So Great’: Green Park’s Moody Melodies of Separation and Growth 18 Jun 2024
    • 17 May 2024 How Chamkila’s Music Holds a Mirror up to Punjab’s Cultural Vices 17 May 2024
    • 14 Dec 2023 Courage Becomes Cruelty: An Appropriation of “Arjan Vailly” in ANIMAL 14 Dec 2023
    • 9 Aug 2023 Pioneers of Bangla World Rock: An Interview with members of Krosswindz 9 Aug 2023
    • 13 Mar 2023 A Stage in Symphony: The Alchemy of QALA’s Music 13 Mar 2023
    • 1 Feb 2023 ‘Meetha Sa Chara Hai Bukhar’: The Timeless Musical Fever of DEV.D 1 Feb 2023
    • 12 Jan 2023 Paa De Lohri: A reconsideration of the spring festival’s most popular folk songs 12 Jan 2023
    • 7 Oct 2022 Poison Pop 7 Oct 2022
    • 27 Sept 2022 808s & Sufiyana: Ahmer’s hip hop tapestry from the Kashmir Valley 27 Sept 2022
    • 21 Sept 2022 The Jazzy Raga of Cultures in MILES FROM INDIA 21 Sept 2022
    • 23 Aug 2022 A Sonic Autobiography of Moods: Music by Vivek Venugopal 23 Aug 2022
    • 11 May 2022 Pushing Forward with the Blues: An interview with Warren Mendonsa of Blackstratblues 11 May 2022
    • 28 Apr 2022 Jazz with an Indian Soul 28 Apr 2022
    • 31 Oct 2021 The Birth of Mocaine’s New Dimensions 31 Oct 2021
    • 16 Aug 2021 Of Inquilab and Saaz: The Music of Deepak Peace 16 Aug 2021
    • 14 Aug 2021 Songs in the Key of the Forest: The Music of Coorg’s Kudiya Tribe 14 Aug 2021
    • 22 Jun 2021 The Ballad of a Superpower Lost 22 Jun 2021
    • 18 Apr 2021 Punking The Public 18 Apr 2021
    • 16 Jan 2021 Kranti Havi: How Swadesi Became India’s Most Potent Voice of Protest Hip Hop 16 Jan 2021
    • 8 Nov 2020 Positive Vibrations 8 Nov 2020
    • 28 Oct 2020 The Perfect Blend: When Chai Met Toast and the Art of Happy, Infectious Music 28 Oct 2020
    • 29 Sept 2020 A Voice that Crossed Over; A Voice of a Generation 29 Sept 2020
    • 16 Sept 2020 When The Music Stops 16 Sept 2020
    • 3 Sept 2020 Music from the Hills: Abdon Mech dreams of better days in “Again” 3 Sept 2020
    • 11 Jul 2020 Music as Still Life: Sameer Rahat’s poetic solo debut Aamad 11 Jul 2020
    • 2 Jul 2020 The World is Ours—Divine leads the rise of Desi Rap, with an assist from Nas 2 Jul 2020
    • 28 Jun 2020 Lyrical Cacophony: Sexuality and Objectification in Bollywood’s ‘Item Numbers’ 28 Jun 2020
    • 31 May 2020 Livin’ With Metal: A peep into the Indian metal scene 31 May 2020
    • 15 May 2020 Nowhere But Here 15 May 2020
    • 22 Apr 2020 The homegrown blues of Lal And the People—An interview with frontman Rohit Lalwani 22 Apr 2020
    • 19 Apr 2020 Music from the Hills: Bipul Chettri’s latest release, ‘Neela Akash’ 19 Apr 2020
    • 28 Mar 2020 Music and the Virus: How the COVID-19 outbreak has disrupted the Indian Indie Scene. 28 Mar 2020
    • 25 Mar 2020 Music from the Hills: The Ladies of Indian Rock 25 Mar 2020
    • 29 Jan 2020 Music from the Hills: All efforts matter in the Indian indie scene 29 Jan 2020
    • 22 Jan 2020 Lucknow Music Diaries: Sticking to the setlist 22 Jan 2020
    • 26 Dec 2019 A Sort of Homecoming 26 Dec 2019
    • 14 Dec 2019 FutureDesi IndieSounds 14 Dec 2019
    • 6 Dec 2019 Wake Up and Listen 6 Dec 2019
    • 1 Dec 2019 Music from the Hills: The tale of the Worn-Out boot 1 Dec 2019
    • 29 Nov 2019 Rock-N-Honour-Rolls 29 Nov 2019
    • 24 Nov 2019 Meba’s Journey 24 Nov 2019
    • 21 Nov 2019 The Chakkar with Bangalore’s Live Music Scene 21 Nov 2019
    • 18 Nov 2019 Excerpt: ‘Music, Masti, Modernity: The Cinema of Nasir Husain’ 18 Nov 2019
    • 13 Nov 2019 Music from the Hills 13 Nov 2019
    • 6 Nov 2019 Band, Baaja, and Bachelor's Degrees 6 Nov 2019
  • Editorial
    • 19 May 2024 Art, Defanged 19 May 2024
    • 5 Mar 2022 Grief at the Ghats 5 Mar 2022
    • 31 Mar 2020 Going Viral 31 Mar 2020
    • 1 Jan 2020 Who will chowkidar the chowkidars? 1 Jan 2020
    • 5 Nov 2019 Welcome to The Chakkar 5 Nov 2019
  • Theatre
    • 8 Apr 2024 Jyoti Dogra’s MAAS: The Body and Its Desires 8 Apr 2024
    • 25 Nov 2023 In Ramnagar, the Folk Theatre of the Ramlila Continues its Centuries-Old Traditions 25 Nov 2023
    • 24 Aug 2022 A Play on Blurred Sexual Lines—Now in India 24 Aug 2022
    • 4 Dec 2021 Full Circle: Greeny Francis on Theatre as Intervention 4 Dec 2021
    • 1 Dec 2021 The Market and The Jester 1 Dec 2021
    • 18 Sept 2021 Chennai is Joking Around 18 Sept 2021
    • 4 Sept 2021 Love, Law, and Literature: A conversation with Danish Sheikh 4 Sept 2021
    • 3 Jan 2021 Dancing In Deadlock: Kerala’s renowned Kathakali artistes have struggled to survive post the pandemic 3 Jan 2021
    • 7 Oct 2020 Hanging on to the Trapeze 7 Oct 2020
    • 8 Aug 2020 ‘We need to keep changing to survive’ – Virajas Kulkarni on the future of Indian theatre 8 Aug 2020
    • 11 Jan 2020 All The Stage's A World 11 Jan 2020
    • 16 Nov 2019 "Theatre has given me the right attitude and the ability to know and understand the other person" 16 Nov 2019
  • Photography
    • 22 Mar 2024 A Symbiotic Dance of Survival and Reverence 22 Mar 2024
    • 16 Jan 2024 In Goa, Serendipity and the Self 16 Jan 2024
    • 25 Nov 2023 In Ramnagar, the Folk Theatre of the Ramlila Continues its Centuries-Old Traditions 25 Nov 2023
    • 16 Aug 2023 Bites from the Market 16 Aug 2023
    • 9 Feb 2023 Every Door, A Tender Veil: A photo-essay by Poornima Laxmeshwar 9 Feb 2023
    • 15 Nov 2022 On The Gateways of Faith: Divinity and the Damned in Haridwar 15 Nov 2022
    • 1 Aug 2022 A Searing Little Fire in Mumbai 1 Aug 2022
    • 24 Jun 2022 A colourful passage through time: Photos from Fort Kochi 24 Jun 2022
    • 12 Feb 2022 A Havoc in the Himalaya 12 Feb 2022
    • 18 Dec 2021 Breath, Life, and Connection – A Photo Essay 18 Dec 2021
    • 28 Aug 2021 Travelling Without Footprints 28 Aug 2021
    • 30 Jul 2021 The Backwaters 30 Jul 2021
    • 15 Jun 2021 Kolkata Hiraeth, A Longing for Home 15 Jun 2021
    • 9 Jun 2021 Pardesi Pahadi: Splendour and Survival at Sahastra Tal 9 Jun 2021
    • 21 Apr 2021 The Living Storybooks of Kolkata – A Photo Essay 21 Apr 2021
    • 9 Mar 2021 Fishing Along the Coringa Mangrove Forests 9 Mar 2021
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