Jiban Narah’s Poetry, A True Voice of Assam
Jiban Narah is easily one of the finest Indian poets writing in Asomiya today.
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Caste | Culture | Online Blog
Dalit Poet Kalyani Thakur Charal’s Poetry Is Her Powerful Call for Affirmative Action
Living in a time when heated discussions around caste tend to centre around reservations, it becomes increasingly important for Dalit literature to claim its space.
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Lessons from Gramsci for Social Movements Today
From Gramsci’s political thinking and practical strategizing come a set of ideas that arguably have only grown more salient with time.
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Three Poems
‘A Poet Regrets’; ‘A Song from the Ruins’; ‘Migrants, COVID-19’.
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How to Kill a Poet?
‘It is difficult to imprison a poet, can life sprout in any planet, once time is confined to a prison’
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An Intellectual Feast: Review of ‘The Sweet Salt of Tamil’ by Tho Paramasivan
The English translation of Tho Paramasivan’s ‘Ariyappadatha Tamilakam’ offers just enough salt to taste the richness of Tamil.
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Why Pali Lost Out and Sanskrit Received More Than its Due
Our amnesia about how greatly Pali has contributed to all that we speak and think is not of recent origin.
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Pablo Picasso Was a Communist. Why Don’t We Ever Talk About This?
In the imbroglio over Pablo Picasso’s misogyny and many personal flaws, the memory of his unabashed leftist politics has been lost — and with it our ability to fully consider his place in history.
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Pinpricked Hands
Three poems, on the occasion of International Workers’ Day.
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Culture | Nuclear Threat | Online Blog | USA
From Yellow Journalism to China Bashing, the Media’s Enduring Role in Promoting War
John Pilger recalls the ‘electric’ opposition of writers and journalists to the coming war in the 1930s and investigates why today there is ‘a silence filled by a consensus of propaganda’ as the two greatest powers draw closer to conflict.
