That’s Life!!!
Vinay Lal introduces the reader to Beethoven’s little-known familiarity with texts like the Bhagavad Gita and “Indian ideas of the sensorium” that helped the composer create what he calls “the music of advaita” …[Read More]…
Between The Lines
The insurrection by Trump’s supporters January 6th at the US Capitol building was viewed as an attack on the most ‘sacred’ site in USA. Laurie L. Patton deconstructs this idea to ask: who belongs in these buildings? …[Read More]…
Bookshelf
For Pankaj Dutt reading Victory Colony 1950 rekindled memories of his search for meaning, as a student, at a refugee camp in 1971; it brings to life ghosts of a past he thought was long past. …[Read More]…
Visual Spaces
Rooted and abstract, the paintings of Manish Pushkale invite calm reflection of civilisation’s legacies of spirituality, change and survival. A glimpse of his work on display starting 25th February …[Read More]…
Literary Trails
A harrowing tale by Ajeet Cour set in Punjab during its ‘troubles’ that turns into a parable for our times as bullets, death and intense grief trigger a profound compassion and search for humanity. …[Read More]…
Literary Trails
Zohra Devi! Is she a metaphor for an enchantment fleetingly glimpsed, stupefyingly absent for the protagonist of this series by Asif Raza, trapped between the “same old vile earth under our feet/ And the same old sordid sky above”? …[Read More]…
Literary Trails
A little known tale by Saadat Hasan Manto on partitions that continue to rupture languages, identities and people. Translated by Alok Bhalla…[Read More]…
Between The Lines
Unfettered by and unmindful of warnings and petitions by locals against development projects, governments have repeatedly chased dreams of modernity. We are now paying the price of a ravaged ecosystem says Sarosh Bana. …[Read More]…
Between the Lines
The farmers’ agitation is taking a new turn, away from New Delhi and its barricades towards the rest of India. Avay Shukla considers what this means for the power elites of the capital.…[Read More]…
Bookshelf
In conversation with Sukrita Paul Kumar, Urdu and Hindi writers discuss their art, modernity/tradition, the critic and much more. Extracts of her conversations with Qurratulain Hyder and Nirmal Verma. …[Read More]…
Bookshelf
Spain’s Moorish past—La Convivencia—an inspiration for multiple faiths to live together comes to life in this multi-dimensional novel. Bhaswati Ghosh talks with Joyce Yarrow, author of Zahara and the Lost Books of Light. …[Read More]…
Literary Trails
Ignored in his lifetime by mainstream Urdu poetry movements, Majeed Amjad pointed Urdu lyric in new directions, to nature as threatened life, to Time in the here-and-now. Riyaz Latif translates the poet’s exquisite yet earthy visions. …[Read More]…