
MY mother’s agony started before October 7 and it embodies the enduring connection of a people to their land and each other. Her story defies the notion that Palestinians can be neatly categorised or divided. It is a testament to the power of heritage and the deep roots of family bonds that not even the most stri ngent of blockades can sever. For 12 yea rs, Israel denied her a permit to visit her family in the West Bank, even when her parents passed away in 2003 and 2008.
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Metastasis of Binaries
As binaries multiply, pluralism in India is being pushed into precarious terrain

Who Moved My Orchard?
Hundreds of apple farmers living in villages in Pulwama and Anantnag are angry and upset as proposed railway lines are going to cut through their orchards

The Lives of Others
Australian writer Anna Funder's latest book, Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life, shines the spotlight on Eileen O'Shaughnessy, celebrated writer George Orwell's first wife.

For Patna-a Promise, Kept
“If I'm alive, I'll come to the Festival of Literature on Music,” legendary vocalist Kishori Amonkar had promised once

The Ugly Myth
Women are slotted into two categories: beautiful or ugly. Who defines beauty and who does this binary actually serve?

My Way or the Highway
The binary logic of absolute divisions has increasingly shaped global political discourse

Undocumented Return
The deportation of illegal immigrants is the most tangible and troubling impact of a policy that is formulated on binaries-insiders vs outsiders, settlers vs migrants, locals vs aliens.

A Signboard of Abstraction
Surrealist artist, author and provocateur Salvador Dalí finally made his way to India thanks to the curation by Christine Argillet, daughter of Pierre Argillet, Dali's publisher and lifelong friend.

What after Rejecting the Binaries?
As spaces expand under debinarised imaginations, finding the ground beneath will become all the more difficult

Binary Bites
BJP's ultranationalism is a strategy to make up for its absence during the freedom struggle, but the binary discourse on nationalism is being weaponised to make detractors fall in line