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By Purvai Aranya 3#MeToo may have been revived in the wake of a Hollywood scandal, but it grew into a global movement. Purvai Aranya reflects on its effect on the Indian campus
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By Zac O’Yeah 1Happy to have become a “reverse coconut”, Zac O’Yeah, when forced to examine his whiteness, goes to a mirror and sees red
View Article“It’s Anything but B&W”
By Rukminee Guha Thakurta 2A photographer widely known for her black-and-white work, Dayanita Singh tells her graphic design collaborator, Rukminee Guha Thakurta, why “it’s all about the greys”
View ArticlePeople of No One Book
By Shashi Tharoor 1In this paean to doubt, Shashi Tharoor argues that Hindutva does a disservice to a religion that encourages the seeking of answers rather than the giving of sermons
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By Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar 1What is a night sky that is not black? Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar on the slow disappearance of an elemental essential
View ArticleWhere the Heart Is
By Mitali Saran 4Your body is your first, last and truest home, says Mitali Saran. A miracle of design and build, a place you can never leave
View ArticleBreakfast for Nausea
Written by CG Salamander, drawn by Ravi Gupta 0This graphic story was published in the Jan-Mar issue of The Indian Quarterly magazine
View ArticleThe Wandering Tribes
By Kaushik Barua 0In a world marked by migration, some have the privilege of cosmopolitan professional lives while others scratch out meagre lives on the margins. Attachments to “home” are at once ambivalent and intense, argues Kaushik Barua
View ArticleThe Small House
By Gautam Bhatia 0In a built landscape pushed to the edge by extreme social, ecological and civic practices, Gautam Bhatia urges the necessity of exploring architecturally extreme, even subversive, ideas
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By Rimli Sengupta 0As Rimli Sengupta leaves India, having already left once before, she reflects on other, more fraught border crossings. On the talismans refugees hold fast to, symbols of lost homes and new beginnings
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