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'This poem wants to be a bird'

New Delhi, Oct. 23 -- Reading the poems in Tishani Doshi's fifth poetry collection is like entering a dense landscape (and climate) of her own making, but also one the poet has inherited, has no contr... Read More


The great Indian chor bazaar

New Delhi, Sept. 13 -- Broadly speaking, there are three kinds of thieves: Those who steal for kicks, for the sheer thrill of it; those who steal for personal profit; and those who steal out of an und... Read More


Is Narendra Modi a dimagi poet?

New Delhi, Aug. 25 -- As a student of sociology at the Delhi School of Economics, I was greatly taken by a slim monograph called The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. The author, Erving Goffman, ... Read More