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The Early and Free Days of IIM Calcutta

‘The IIMC students were ... among the best in the country…having come through several sieving processes and the horrors of entrance examinations at different levels from which only the best and the…

▶13-Mar-2025

N. Krishnaji

That 2010s Show: How a TV Series Brought Teenagers Home to Indian Audiences

'Gumrah', a show that aired in the early 2010s, brought to television the worries and optimism about adolescents in the post-Liberalisation decades. Its concerns and unaddressed tensions…

▶11-Oct-2024

Nidhi Kinhal

Indians and their Selfies

‘The selfie…offers us a window not only to the individual self, but through its deliberate or incidental positioning, allows us to unpack moments in cultural, civic, social, and political life.’

▶24-Sep-2024

Usha Raman

Bombay Stories

Women writing on marriage, divorce, and intimacy in mid-century Bombay provide a unique perspective to the debates raging in the country over the reform of Hindu family law.

▶30-Apr-2024

Urvi Desai

Book Review

What Eating Reminds You Of

When foods become metaphors for human relationships, stories about eating reflect memories of bonding, care, and solidarity.

▶28-Feb-2024

Rituparna Patgiri

Essay

Allahabad that is Prayagraj: The Politics of Erasure

Driven by a yearning to shed the legacy of past humiliation, defeat, and cultural dispossession, we attempt to obliterate traces of that history. Yet, that very past lingers embodied within us. The…

▶19-Feb-2024

Alok Rai

How Does Kabir Still Speak To Us?

The tendency of the human mind, whether fighting for personal territory or fighting for justice, is to create an enemy: self vs the other, us vs them. good vs evil. In our times, which seem more…

▶08-Jan-2024

Vipul Rikhi

Book Review

A Flawed Biography of Vivekananda

It is a poor account of Vivekananda's life that is written without studying the Bengali writings on him, that downplays the Ramakrishna-Narendranath relationship and that pays only little…

▶29-Mar-2023

Rudrangshu Mukherjee

Tiger-Charmers of the Sundarbans

The tiger-charmers of the Sundarbans have been seen by forest guards and scientists as unscrupulous. But the islanders argue that tiger-charmers are able to better communicate between human and…

▶09-Mar-2023

Annu Jalais

Of Speech and Song in the Shadow of Krishna

“Vrindavan devotee publics seem to have relegated desire and descended fully into the sadness of Radha.”

▶20-Feb-2023

Atreyee Majumder

Culture

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