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Can we please stop playing reels in public?

New Delhi, March 28 -- A few weeks ago, Delhi-based author and leadership coach Aparna Jain had an early morning flight from terminal 3 of Indira Gandhi International Airport. Since she'd reached earl... Read More


'Hot Butter Cuttlefish' by Ashok Ferrey tells a story of love and revenge set in the time of the coronavirus

New Delhi, March 22 -- Ashok Ferrey's latest novel, Hot Butter Cuttlefish, is set in the fictional lakeside village of Kalabola in Sri Lanka during the covid-19 years. The protagonist, Malik, is a rec... Read More


Uncovering the war in West Asia through Edward Said's 'Covering Islam'

New Delhi, March 15 -- In his now-canonical study, Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World, first published in 1981 and revised in 1997, Palestinian Am... Read More


Why it is impossible to reimagine 'Wuthering Heights' as a movie

New Delhi, March 8 -- I am a sucker for movie adaptations of literary texts. So, despite the deluge of bad press, I simply had to watch Emerald Fennell's recent remake of Wuthering Heights. Let's say,... Read More


Daniyal Mueenuddin's new book of stories charts a timeless tradition of cunning and corruption in Pakistan

New Delhi, March 8 -- In an interview to The New Yorker last year, Daniyal Mueenuddin described his story, The Golden Boy, as a piece that is "embedded in a much larger history". "Like a peripheral sc... Read More


Art or spectacle? Decoding the viewer at the Kochi Muziris Biennale

New Delhi, Feb. 27 -- At the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2025-26 last weekend, a group of young people stepped out of the late Vivan Sundaram's darkly autobiographical exhibit, Six Stations of a Life Pursu... Read More


Why Gen Z is choosing fulfillment over authority in the workplace

New Delhi, Feb. 23 -- Recently, a close family member, who is a marketing professional in her late 20s, came to me for some career advice. At her current job, which she joined around two years ago, sh... Read More


'Cover-Up' on Netflix explores the legacy of fearless reporter Seymour Hersh

New Delhi, Feb. 22 -- In one of the early scenes in Cover-Up, a documentary on Seymour M. Hersh's life and work, the iconic investigative journalist looks straight at the camera, or rather at the film... Read More


Remembering Mahasweta Devi, a voice for the marginalized, in her centenary year

New Delhi, Feb. 14 -- In July 2016, the government of Jharkhand issued an order to remove manacles from all statues of the tribal leader Birsa Munda (1875-1900), starting with the one that stands on B... Read More


In Chanakya School's first solo show in India, many hands come together to create each work of art

New Delhi, Feb. 13 -- In the middle of a room at Experimenter gallery in Kolkata's Ballygunge Place stands a large sculptural installation called Dwelling (2025). Made of three human-sized structures,... Read More