Short Story by Ajith Pillai. Journalist J’s chilling account detailed the diabolic plan devised by the construction conglomerate and several governments to decongest Planet Earth of the human population. It entailed transporting unsuspecting men, women and children in mega spacecrafts, outside the solar system. This was considered “safer, less messy and evidence-free” than culling by injecting a killer virus or releasing deadly toxins into the air and water. 

By Janaky Sreedharan. Atreyakam, a novel in Malayalam penned by R Rajasree (2024), in its 25th edition now, is the latest entry into the world of contemporary Mahabharata retellings. She discovers that equations of male virility in bed, with manliness in war, make honour a key word around gender identities.

By Puja Bhakhoo. This piece explores what happens when divine rage collides with human emotions. It’s not about the thunder we hear, but the storm we feel — the tension, the anticipation, the unraveling beneath the surface.

By Tathagatha Chatterjee. A charismatic cinema legend in his lifetime in Bengal, Uttam Kumar’s unfading brilliance continues to cast a magical spell across all generations -- his immortal legacy endures. A tribute to the Mahanayak on his 45th anniversary.

By Shubho Roy. Over 75 years ago, a landless immigrant arriving in the city of Kolkata planted a tamarind tree. The act of planting a tree in an unfamiliar land thus became a part of the long negotiation for inclusion, for rehabilitation. An act of re-rooting oneself in the new land.

By Aayushi Rana. What could have led the father to pump bullets into his highly talented young daughter’s back while she was cooking in their home in upscale Sushant Lok in Gurugram? Was it the tennis academy she ran, and her high national rankings in the game? A music video she made last year? Wounded pride? Or, was it something else entirely?

By Ratna Raman. The idea of women as attractive but foolish was acceptable, because everywhere average women had less rights and dignity than the average man.

By Narendra Pachkede. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o leaves behind no fixed doctrine but a practice. A practice of listening to ancestral echoes. A practice of writing against forgetting.

In conversation with Seema Mustafa: As journalists, never forget that you are just a messenger between the poor and the deprived, and the corridors of power.

Karen Gabriel speaks about the 'element of instantaneity': everything is arriving simultaneously in the ‘feed’ – and it disappears just as fast..

By Tathagata Chatterjee. Ray’s masterpiece was not made to be liked. It was made to be remembered.