Culture
Performing lust, rendering misogyny
Netflix’s ‘brave new’ offering treads old ground.
Rutuja Deshmukh | Nov 30, 2018
In the embrace of letting go
A Tibetan writer’s personal essay on a death in the family.
Topden Tsering | Oct 11, 2018
Not quite Satyajit Ray’s world
Looking back at early critics' cold reception of the filmmaker's seminal work.
Mahdi Chowdhury | Jul 11, 2018
Letter of appreciation for those who miraculously escaped the manhole
A short story
Debojit Dutta | Jun 05, 2018
Love, with an albatross attached: Part II
A personal essay about coming of age in the world of hypercompetitive education in 1990s India.
Aparna Gopalan | May 18, 2018
The ‘i’ of the storm
The Bollywood hit ‘Padmaavat’, India’s anti-sati laws and the failure to confront misogyny.
Laxmi Murthy | May 14, 2018
Love, with an albatross attached: Part I
A personal essay about coming of age in the world of hypercompetitive education in 1990s India.
Aparna Gopalan | May 11, 2018
The art of translating Indra Bahadur Rai
Interview with Nepali author and translator Prawin Adhikari.
The Editors | May 10, 2018
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