Culture

The present and deep past of anti-caste speculative fiction
Culture
The present and deep past of anti-caste speculative fiction
By
Sreyartha Krishna
‘The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF’ demonstrates the power of speculative and science fiction as instruments of the anti-caste struggle in Southasia, and these genres’ connections to the wide traditions ...
Photo of three workers packing tea on a Ceylon estate supervised by a kanganie
Culture
Languages and labour on tea estates in South India and Sri Lanka
By
Abhishek Avtans
How colonial-era tea cultivation drove migration and shaped the languages and lived experiences of estate workers in Southasia
A photograph of Parveen Shakir in speaking into a microphone at a public event. She is mid-sentence, with one hand raised in an expressive gesture. She's wearing a cream-coloured kameez with a red and green dupatta and a pearl necklace, and she's sitting on a platform in front of a dark background with another person slightly visible in the distance.
Culture
Enduring lessons from the Pakistani poet Parveen Shakir’s ‘Khushboo’
By
Karishma M
The renowned Urdu poet’s 1976 debut collection finds new life online even as romantic expression for and by women continues to be dismissed
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