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Live. Observe. Experience. Don’t dramatise. Draw.
By Suresh Nautiyal. To see the Himalaya today is not just to admire it. It is to recognise its fragility, its complexity, and our connection to it.
May 14 min read
Not an idea, an ache: GIVE ME GREEN
By Suresh Nautiyal, Change does not always arrive as revolution. Sometimes it arrives as a question, a doubt, a enigma, that refuses to say goodbye.
Apr 307 min read
This Meme: Violent. Misogynist. Nationalist?
Condemn the misogynist and violent Meme against Mamata Banerjee.
Apr 292 min read
If God did not Exist: Ganesha, Swati and the White Peacock
By Ratna Raman. To this day, you can find both Ganesha and the white peacock on the small balcony, outside Swati’s study window.
Apr 269 min read
Daughter, mother, attacked by Forest Department staffers: Women activists protest
By Amit Sengupta/Saharanpur. How dare they enter the home of a woman, when she is alone with her teenage 14-year-old daughter, assault her and physically harm her
Apr 266 min read
My Dear Serena,
Ode to Serena: I fear I am losing you.
Apr 251 min read
Six yards of elegance and grace: A love letter to saree
By Ganpy Natraj. Every Tamil wedding I attended as a child smelled like jasmine and sounded like silk.
Apr 254 min read
The Silver Songbirds… listen to them sing
By Ammu Joseph. 'The Silver Songbirds of Bengaluru,' a senior citizens' choir led by a top-ranking retired diplomat, is crossing borders and boundaries, and building bridges, creating solidarity with melody and songs.
Apr 255 min read
Why Delimitation can be dangerous: A Not-So-Quiet Coup Against South India
By Ganpy Nataraj. India’s women, and India’s states, deserve better than that.
Apr 177 min read
90 lakh voter names deleted! What's going on in West Bengal?
By Rahul. SIR data show that over 53% of the deletions were women.
Apr 174 min read
Tax the super-rich, close the gap
the country's richest 1% control close to 40% of the national wealth.
Apr 153 min read
STOP these FORCED marriages
Instead of a life of slavery in forced marriages, educated daughters deserve a future forged by choice not compulsion.
degree remains a quiet indictment of progress unfulfilled.
Apr 156 min read
Bengal: Daylight Dacoity as a Public Spectacle?
By Aditya Nigam. Will West Bengal be the Waterloo of the West India Company?
Apr 152 min read
This book found me in London. When I finally reached for it, something shifted
Amit Sengupta’s A Sudden Golden Smile enters with the tempered force of early spring,
Apr 157 min read
Justice for NOIDA workers: Delhi Union of Journalists
The Delhi Union of Journalists (DUJ), condemns the severe police action against striking factory workers of NOIDA and the attack on some reporters covering the protests on April 13.
Apr 143 min read
An Ass is an Ass is an Ass is an Ass...
Cartoons by Satya Sagar. From the stone age to empty gas cylinders to a fake ceasefire and a damned doddering donkey in the desert. Cartoons of the week.
Apr 81 min read
Predators, Perverts, Paedophiles: And all that Sleaze on Social Media
By Ajith Pillai in Chennai. Targeting children. Two recent verdicts in New Mexico and Los Angeles exposes the sleazy side of social media:
Apr 78 min read
The Potato Eaters, and the Sunflowers are not blooming
By Uttara Shidore. Remembering Vincent Van Gogh. Not as a great artist, but as a compassionate human being rooted in the margins.
Apr 53 min read
Not in the Church’s Shadow, But in the Shadow of the Cross
By Vijayan MJ. But hope remains—if it is grounded in struggle. Ambedkar taught hope as organised courage. Bhagat Singh rejected surrender. Che Guevara refused neutrality. Birsa Munda defended land and life as civilisational resistance.
Apr 46 min read
Rocky is gorgeous. The movie is beautiful. Go see it.
By Ganpy Nataraj. You can be brave and self-sacrificing and still want to come home.
Apr 48 min read
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