Voices
Shibli Numani’s imagined community
A 19th-century travelogue from northern India challenges colonial orientalism.
Sumaira Nawaz | Dec 14, 2018
In the embrace of letting go
A Tibetan writer’s personal essay on a death in the family.
Topden Tsering | Oct 11, 2018
An education in the male species
Scenes from the chronicles of midlife romance.
Ritu Bhatia | Jun 11, 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
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
The purity question
In conversation with author and activist, Farahnaz Ispahani.
Aditi Bhaduri | Apr 29, 2016
Elephants in Manhattan
India-administered Kashmir is haunted by violence and bound by the tension of memory.
Feroz Rather | Apr 20, 2016
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