Essays
The Election in Begusarai
Bharath Murthy draws attention to a colourful election campaign
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Memories of Madness
How we treat our ‘lunatics’ says a lot about who we are as a society. Psychiatrists Sanjeev Jain and Alok Sarin recall Delhi’s asylum, first sacked during the 1857 rebellion
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Dead Ant, Dead Ant
The most ambitious scientific experiment ever to test the effects of global warming trains the heat on ants. Akshai Jain explains why, and how
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Modernism and Modernity
The modernist turn to Indian photography may have been chronologically belated but its practitioners were pioneers, creating works that were uniquely hybrid, ‘unruly and layered, global and local, colonial and postcolonial’, write Nathaniel Gaskell and Diva Gujral
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Mud
At her home in the mountains, Anuradha Roy watches the snow and rain, considers warmth and the stirring of new life in the earth
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Sweat Symbols
How have Hindi films treated heat, asks Jai Arjun Singh. And what of the effect of heat, literally, on the making and preservation of those films
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The Hunger Artists
At the unlikely venue of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Revati Laul found a serious attempt to engage with agrarian distress. Perhaps our politicians should take a look
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The Anger Games
From the bully pulpits occupied by TV news anchors and politicians, rage has been the rallying cry. What is the effect on our national health, asks Shougat Dasgupta
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The Spice Imperative
From Mexico, Michael Snyder traces the history of the chilli pepper and reflects on prandial ties, forged under the colonial yoke, with India
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