CATEGORIES

The Female Gaze

Cinematography is Modhura Palit’s calling. The hurdles involved in making it in a male-dominated field have not dimmed her passion

Mystery Woman

BHAVNA Paliwal is all smiles as she leans back on her black leather executive chair. She hasn’t slept in 24 hours, having tracked a suspect across the hills near Delhi. “That’s the nature of a private detective’s job—one minute you are having chaat with the family, the next you’re chasing a man whose wife suspects him of having an affair,” she says. Despite the complaint, Paliwal loves her job. This is evident from the ease with which she occupies her chair in her office, the gusto with which she laughs at the stories she tells.

Chak De Phatte!

Tackling a challenging life situation led to Neelkamal Thakur earning her new designation—the first female truck driver from Himachal to operate a commercial heavy load carrier

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

Beyond the Liminal Vantage

Binary is a departure from the conditioned acceptability to brave our choices

Secular Occident and Religious Orient?

The Western notion of geoculturally looking at the world through the prism of the Oriental-Occidental binary is flawed but continues nonetheless

The Vortex of Nature and Culture

We need to move past false binaries amplifying the message of coexistence

Masculin Féminin

Trump's executive order to recognise only two sexes-male and female-has triggered a tragic dilemma of revealing less and concealing more

Friendship Loveship Hateship

The world is presently battling a loneliness epidemic, but it’s the well-connected’ who are the loneliest. These days, they are looking to make connections at social meet-ups

Scripting Loneliness

With the turn of the millennium, Indian audiences got to see what actually happens when fairytale romance ends and life begins on the big screen

Confined, Constricted

Love and loneliness co-exist in spaces where desires struggle to navigate through narrow lanes, love flounders to flourish in tiny homes and heart-to-heart conversations get muted in the cacophony of everyday drudgery

Rusted Ruins

Archaeology trapped in jingoist trenches

BJP's Delhiverance

The double engine sarkaar will have to show some quick results to Delhi's middle class which has trusted it to improve the city’s infrastructure

AAP Rejected, or BJP Elected?

ls the electorate voting to reject rather than voting to elect?

Crying in Love is to Grow in Love

To be in love is to check one's mortality and start with the quiver of optimism

Half Moon

Desire is not Just about the body but the entire world through the body. In fact, the world becomes the body of the absent lover

Love, Actually

British novelist and scriptwriter David Nicholls is the author of six novels, including the global bestseller One Day (2009).

Big City Blues

Queer people find vibrancy and welcome anonymity in megacities but there is a limit to the choices they offer

Love Bites, Love Kills

My divorce came with a package deal—loneliness, depression and social isolation followed

Swipe, Scroll—Still Lonely

The author shares his tryst with Clubhouse—the app where every lonely heart became part of a collective dirge

AI Love You

The digital era allows unfiltered and uncontrolled access to romantic possibilities. It also allows control