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Nachiket Joshi

‘H-Pop’: A cut-throat digital economy and deep-rooted hatred have fundamentally changed India

The book’s narrative and affective core are built around three Hindutva ‘influencers’ whose world stretches along numerous small towns in the Hindi-belt India.

Nachiket Joshi
· Feb 25, 2024 · 07:30 am
‘Soma’: When AK Ramanujan wrote poems about his psychedelic experiments and their effects on him

Sifting through Ramanujan’s archives, the editors discovered a series of unpublished ‘Soma poems’ whose style and theme set them apart from his earlier work.

Nachiket Joshi
· Jan 13, 2024 · 08:30 am
‘When we speak of the secular in India these days, poetry, literature, cinema do not come into play’

An interview with writers Arvind Krishna Mehrotra and Amit Chaudhuri.

Nachiket Joshi
· Sep 10, 2023 · 08:30 am

How a poetic retelling of the Mahabharata warns us against the rhetoric of vengeance and sacrifice

Arun Kolatkar’s ‘Sapra Satra’ reminds us that once the fire of vengeance has been lit, it can never be put out.

Nachiket Joshi
· Mar 12, 2019 · 05:30 pm