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Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay: Revolutionary genius

On Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay’s 184th birth anniversary, a celebration of the exemplary novelist who gave us our national song Vande Mataram.

Paradox within a paradox: ‘Trans Kashmir’ captures the precarious lives of the transgender community in the Valley

Trans Kashmir is a testament to the power of documentary film-making.

Ummul Baneen Hyder

Graz Annual Playwrights’ Festival 2022: Concluding day

Of elusive answers

Himali Kothari contemplates the battering the arts has taken in our conflict-ridden times as she attends the grand finale of the Graz theatre festival

Graz Annual Playwrights’ Festival 2022: Day Five

Reimagining performance spaces

At the theatre festival in Graz, a cargo cycle moved around the town like a mobile library of plays besides the three performance venues, enabling a f

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Movie Review: ‘Puzhu’ dissects the insidious worm of caste

Puzhu is the most recent in a series of Malayalam films that have explored and elaborated on the ways in which caste hatred and violence works in Kera

C.S. Venkiteswaran

International Booker Prize 2022

Will the International Booker Prize win for ‘Tomb of Sand’ change much for Indian language writers?

The International Booker Prize for Tomb of Sand, Daisy Rockwell’s English translation of Hindi writer Geetanjali Shree’s Ret-Samadhi, is likely to hav

International Museum Day

How did the Indian Museum in Kolkata commemorate International Museum Day?

The Indian Museum takes visitors on a journey through history with its rare public exhibition of never-before-displayed artefacts.

Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay

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‘Ghode Ko Jalebi Khilane Le Ja Riya Hoon’ deals in bringing dreams alive

Interview with Anamika Haksar, theatre doyenne and director of Ghode Ko Jalebi Khilane Le Ja Riya Hoon.

This story features in ‘How Are You Veg? Dalit Stories from Telugu’ by Joopaka Subhadra. Translated by Alladi Uma and M. Sridhar (Stree, 2021)

How are you veg?: A Telugu short story in translation

By Joopaka Subhadra. Translated from Telugu by Alladi Uma and M. Sridhar

A dramatic setup for the play What Ignites, What Burns.

The playwright’s burden

Can theatre really contribute to a better world? Himali Kothari and the other participating playwrights discuss these and other related questionsdurin

Performance comes to the street in Catcalls of Graz.

Graz theatre festival: Words and their limits

On the third day of the Graz theatre festival, Himali Kothari finds out how Instagram and Twitter are shaping the structure of performances.

Author Geetanjali Shree (right) and translator Daisy Rockwell with the 2022 International Booker Prize awards for ‘Tomb of Sand’, in London on May 26.

Partition literature: Hope for a different tomorrow

Partition literature helps us make sense of one of the most traumatising events in the country’s history so that we don’t repeat a similar catastrophe