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Crossing the street, a stranger's smile
By Sivakami. Amit Sengupta reminds us that even in the darkest times, there will always be someone who dares to write, someone who dares to care, and someone who dares to smile. That sudden golden smile is what keeps hope alive.
How a Girl Burns Down the House of Empire
By Narendra Pachkhédé. Suzannah Mirghani films the burning without spectacle. Flames rise against the night. Wind replaces crackle. Villagers remain silent. The camera holds Nafisa’s face, steady in the firelight, neither triumphant nor penitent but lucid. This is judgment, not impulse. It insists that girlhood is not prologue, but history’s frontline. In Nafisa’s own words, “I will determine my future.”
Zoona Dub held me in its embrace of love and compassion
By Nayeema Ahmad Mehjoor. And those waves still warm me. How Zoona Dub became a lifeline for every household in beautiful Kashmir, and how it became a role model for radio stations of All India Radio.
BABIES IN BUNKERS
By Aayushi Rana. Can a poem stop a bullet?
We are in the same boat brother
By Meher Pestonji. Vincent Delacroix’ book, Small Boat, short listed for the 2025 Booker is a philosophically fictitious version of an incident that occurred on the night of November 23/24, 2021. An inflatable dinghy, overloaded with thirty migrants, capsized, drowning 27 refugees. Small Boat is a startling, unexpected book that philosophizes, as much as exposes the frailty of the human condition today.
AI as My Cartoonist: Ideas Over Execution
By Satya Sagar. There's something about original, creative, auithentic hand-drawn work that AI cannot and can never fully replicate.
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The intoxicating scent that fills the room...
By Rao Farman Ali. As the sun sets over Pampore, casting long shadows across the patchy fields, Abdul Hamid Wani sits on his haunches, looking at the small, crimson pile in a wooden tray that represents a year of his life, his hope, and his struggle. It is a sight that brings to mind an old couplet, a nightingale's plea to a stone for a single blade of grass.
The danger of Narcissism meeting Narcissism
By Narendra Pachkhede. James Vanderbilt’s Nuremberg arrives in full Hollywood regalia—swelling score, courtroom spectacle, America once more cast as custodian of justice. Evil becomes magnetic, irresistible to the camera.
There...
By Arjun Janah. Will we meet, beyond the mountain, The ones we loved and lost? Will we hear the songs familiar—Or will this all be lost?
Politics
THE BORDER is everywhere now...
By Narendra Pachkhede. The ‘refugee’ is a mythical symbol of hate. The border is in the mind.
Crossing the street, a stranger's smile
By Sivakami. Amit Sengupta reminds us that even in the darkest times, there will always be someone who dares to write, someone who dares to care, and someone who dares to smile. That sudden golden smile is what keeps hope alive.
A Global Digital Gateway? Is it?
Vizag is choking. The impact is especially severe on children, the poor and elderly.
History
How a Girl Burns Down the House of Empire
By Narendra Pachkhédé. Suzannah Mirghani films the burning without spectacle. Flames rise against the night. Wind replaces crackle. Villagers remain silent. The camera holds Nafisa’s face, steady in the firelight, neither triumphant nor penitent but lucid. This is judgment, not impulse. It insists that girlhood is not prologue, but history’s frontline. In Nafisa’s own words, “I will determine my future.”
The danger of Narcissism meeting Narcissism
By Narendra Pachkhede. James Vanderbilt’s Nuremberg arrives in full Hollywood regalia—swelling score, courtroom spectacle, America once more cast as custodian of justice. Evil becomes magnetic, irresistible to the camera.
This Sunset is RED: The decline of the Maoists in India
By Satya Sagar. The recent surrender of top leadership figures within the Communist Party of India (Maoist) marks the most decisive failure yet in their decades-long armed struggle against the Indian State.
Society
THE BORDER is everywhere now...
By Narendra Pachkhede. The ‘refugee’ is a mythical symbol of hate. The border is in the mind.
A Global Digital Gateway? Is it?
Vizag is choking. The impact is especially severe on children, the poor and elderly.
Zoona Dub held me in its embrace of love and compassion
By Nayeema Ahmad Mehjoor. And those waves still warm me. How Zoona Dub became a lifeline for every household in beautiful Kashmir, and how it became a role model for radio stations of All India Radio.
Ground Report
To Rebel is To Be!
By Amit Sengupta. The sudden, radical rupture inflames the rain-soaked afternoon. The fire spreads in the eyes, and inside clenched fists. A mother holds her little child close to her heart, eyes blazing. A thin, wiry young woman in a red sari, becomes a fiery symbol of shakti – women’s power. A grandmother is so intense, that her entire history of angst and anger explodes.
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THE BORDER is everywhere now...
By Narendra Pachkhede. The ‘refugee’ is a mythical symbol of hate. The border is in the mind.
Crossing the street, a stranger's smile
By Sivakami. Amit Sengupta reminds us that even in the darkest times, there will always be someone who dares to write, someone who dares to care, and someone who dares to smile. That sudden golden smile is what keeps hope alive.
How a Girl Burns Down the House of Empire
By Narendra Pachkhédé. Suzannah Mirghani films the burning without spectacle. Flames rise against the night. Wind replaces crackle. Villagers remain silent. The camera holds Nafisa’s face, steady in the firelight, neither triumphant nor penitent but lucid. This is judgment, not impulse. It insists that girlhood is not prologue, but history’s frontline. In Nafisa’s own words, “I will determine my future.”
A Global Digital Gateway? Is it?
Vizag is choking. The impact is especially severe on children, the poor and elderly.
Zoona Dub held me in its embrace of love and compassion
By Nayeema Ahmad Mehjoor. And those waves still warm me. How Zoona Dub became a lifeline for every household in beautiful Kashmir, and how it became a role model for radio stations of All India Radio.
BABIES IN BUNKERS
By Aayushi Rana. Can a poem stop a bullet?
We are in the same boat brother
By Meher Pestonji. Vincent Delacroix’ book, Small Boat, short listed for the 2025 Booker is a philosophically fictitious version of an incident that occurred on the night of November 23/24, 2021. An inflatable dinghy, overloaded with thirty migrants, capsized, drowning 27 refugees. Small Boat is a startling, unexpected book that philosophizes, as much as exposes the frailty of the human condition today.
AI as My Cartoonist: Ideas Over Execution
By Satya Sagar. There's something about original, creative, auithentic hand-drawn work that AI cannot and can never fully replicate.
A 'Communist Lunatic' in New York?
By B Sivaraman. New York can hardly be described as a major urban citadel of the Left. It cannot be compared to a ‘revolutionary St. Petersburg in Russia, or Red Vienna and Red Berlin of the early 20th century. Zohran Mamdani’s performance would be closely watched.
From Russia, with Love
By Raju Mansukhani. I have to participate in the attacks, storms, victories and defeats, experience the cold, disease and wounds. I must not be afraid to sacrifice my flesh and my blood, otherwise my pictures will mean nothing.”
The illusion of cinema, its mellow, and melodrama
By Raju Mansukhani. On his 100th birth anniversary, a tribute to legend Ritwik Ghatak and young, award-winning filmmaker Payal Kapadia whose bridges of realism, surrealism and illusion are building a new world.
Dangerous Sex, Invisible Labour
By Baishali Chatterjee. many of these forms of work have been abolished by the government, whether it's bar dancing, or imposing bans on erotic dancing etc, or legal restrictions oon commercial surrogacy.
INDIGO imbroglio
So what happened? Why did the 56 inch government wilfully bow to an airline's demand and compromise on the passenger safety of thousands of people?
The intoxicating scent that fills the room...
By Rao Farman Ali. As the sun sets over Pampore, casting long shadows across the patchy fields, Abdul Hamid Wani sits on his haunches, looking at the small, crimson pile in a wooden tray that represents a year of his life, his hope, and his struggle. It is a sight that brings to mind an old couplet, a nightingale's plea to a stone for a single blade of grass.
The danger of Narcissism meeting Narcissism
By Narendra Pachkhede. James Vanderbilt’s Nuremberg arrives in full Hollywood regalia—swelling score, courtroom spectacle, America once more cast as custodian of justice. Evil becomes magnetic, irresistible to the camera.
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