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Kaushik Barua

‘Not the Rama we’re familiar with’: The different Ramayanas across South-East Asia

Scholars believe the Ramayana is a template for tales across the continent. What roles did the Ramayana’s retellings play in the region?

Kaushik Barua
· Oct 27, 2024 · 07:30 am
‘We love life if we find a way to it’: Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish’s enduring absences

The path to enduring peace is through remembering the humanity of others, especially those who may be on the other end of our political beliefs.

Kaushik Barua
· Nov 25, 2023 · 08:30 am
Exiled and distanced from its home, Tibetan writing has long reflected the spirit of the pandemic

‘In many ways, the pandemic has revealed every day aspects of my life that I’d come to see as just my life.’

Kaushik Barua
· Nov 28, 2020 · 11:30 am

‘I thought sex before marriage didn’t happen, because you don’t really know each other’

An excerpt from a bizarre, post-modern story about a paranoid hypochondriac Indian working in Rome.

Kaushik Barua
· Apr 12, 2015 · 07:00 am