‘Do you know why nails grow? They are the remnants of our animal life’

Pavitra Mohan translates Hazari Prasad Dwivedi’s famous essay from the Hindi.

Hazari Prasad Dwivedi

· Oct 05, 2022 · 05:30 pm

‘Song of the Soil’ author Chuden Kabimo on how right-wing moves disturbed the peace in Darjeeling

Kabimo’s novel, longlisted for the JCB Prize, presents the political movement for Gorkhaland through fiction.

Chuden Kabimo

· Sep 24, 2022 · 05:30 pm

The organic intellectual, mystical poetry, and the rationalist tradition in India today

Intellectuals might debate on class, but they aren’t always defined by it.

Amit Chaudhuri

· Aug 10, 2022 · 08:30 am

What is ‘medical feminism’ and how does it affect the lives of women in the US and India?

Author Shashi Deshpande dissects the growing opposition to women’s selfhood.

Shashi Deshpande

· Aug 07, 2022 · 12:30 pm

Knowledge is power: The unintended outcomes of Orientalist William Jones’ study of Sanskrit texts

Looking back on Jones’s legacy on his 275th birth anniversary, which falls on September 28.

Girish Shahane

· Sep 28, 2021 · 11:30 am

Passing the pandemic with Pamuk: How to travel the world from one room during the lockdown

Even when you’re confined to your writing desk, your bookshelf will take you somewhere else altogether.

Pallavi Narayan

· May 30, 2020 · 12:30 pm

Essay: You cannot go back home once you have left it. You find it afresh in literature and language

A literature professor’s meditation on how a book can take us back home.

Kunal Ray

· Dec 29, 2019 · 07:30 am