essays
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‘Whom do you write for?’: Tabish Khair argues why writers should refuse to answer this question
Tabish Khair
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A Tibetan writer reflects on the fight for his motherland while living in ‘exile’ in India
Tsering Namgyal Khortsa
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In a new book, novelist Tabish Khair argues that ‘literature’ is fundamental to human nature
Tabish Khair
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‘Asides, Tirades, Meditations’: Kiran Nagarkar wrote with an electric style on a host of topics
Shevlin Sebastian
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‘Philosophy is an act of illuminating the invisible’: Sundar Sarukkai on human perception
Sundar Sarukkai
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How a tourist frenzy affects Goa’s local population and ecosystems
Maria Aurora Couto
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Writer Veio Pou on the struggles of living and raising children in Delhi as a ‘North-Eastern’ person
Veio Pou
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‘Riverside Stories’: This book of writings from Assam gives space to marginalised voices and themes
Shibani Phukan
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In this collection of essays about mothers, Pakistani women explore the many meanings of feminism
Maria Amir
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Walter Benjamin’s ‘Illuminations’ is a remarkably prescient work of an intellectual truth-seeker
Jamie Q Roberts, The Conversation
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‘A Memoir of My Former Self’: Hilary Mantel’s final book is proof that she still had stories to tell
Jenni Ramone, The Conversation
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How did low-cost posters influence nationalism in the decades leading up to and after the Partition?
Yousuf Saeed
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‘Bantering with Bandits’: Annie Zaidi’s searing truths about Indian preoccupations and peculiarities
Saloni Sharma
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This book asks whether history lessons in schools and colleges can play a role in promoting peace
Krishna Kumar
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This collection of modern Tibetan essays offers heartfelt, heartbreaking accounts of survival, hope
Niyati Bhat
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From recipes to language, how Mizo women contribute to local knowledge and protect it
Laldinpuii
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‘A cliff of clay called home’: What a Tibetan prisoner remembers of his motherland’s ancient culture
Nyen Dhondup T Rekjong
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UR Ananthamurthy: Who are the nude worshippers of Chandragutti? What do they tell us about faith?
UR Ananthamurthy
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‘Ways of Being’: Pakistani women writers explore selfhood, politics without giving into stereotypes
Saloni Sharma
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Can writing be defined by national, religious, linguistic, and ethnical borders?
Sabyn Javeri