Through my Window Rereading GandhiK. SatchidanandanIt is in the search for the ethical foundations of democracy that we will be forced to rediscover the relevance of Gandhi.
Through my Window From the earth and the skyK. SatchidanandanONE of the dubious privileges of senior writers is that they get a lot of books as gifts; I said “dubious” for many reasons. While, at times, they are
Alterbodies exhibition Body and beyondK. SatchidanandanSajitha Shankar’s “Alterbodies” transcends the sensual and the sexual to have near-metaphysical encounters with the self.
Art Dialogues with historyK. SatchidanandanSubodh Kerkar’s installations are meditations on the colonial past, nature and history where the boundary between art and life stands disrupted.
The plural and the singularK. SATCHIDANANDANWith 184 mother tongues, 25 writing systems, and several traditions of oral and written literature, the diversity of India’s literary landscape can
Songs from the underworldK. SATCHIDANANDANNamdeo Dhasal, whose poetry is open to the beauty as well as the brutality of life, is a pioneer not only of Dalit poetry but also of contemporary Ind
The Kochi-Muziris BiennaleK. SATCHIDANANDANThe Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India’s first such show, provides a much-needed platform for a vital inquiry into today’s art by bringing together artists
The Kochi-Muziris BiennaleK. SATCHIDANANDANThe Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India’s first such show, provides a much-needed platform for a vital inquiry into today’s art by bringing together artists
Kochi-Muziris Biennale Life and artK. SATCHIDANANDANThe Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India’s first such show, provides a much-needed platform for a vital inquiry into today’s art by bringing together artists
Fighting the stereotypeK. SatchidanandanAbout novels that deal directly or obliquely with Muslim life and ultimately about life in general but yet have something specific about them that con
Mainstreaming the subalternK. SatchidanandanThe roots of Dalit literature in Kerala and Tamil Nadu lie in the strong corpus of oral and ritualistic literature that interrogated the caste system
Of resistance and lossK. SATCHIDANANDANSri Lankan Tamil writers tried to capture the trauma of the violence that gripped the country from 1983. The songs of the vanquished show how poetry c
From the heart, from Pakistan Rakhshanda Jalil’s series introduces Pakistani women poets to Hindi readers.
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