The Oracle of Tripe #13
Ever curious about your dying day? The Oracle of Tripe has all the answers. Won-Tolla presents the bewildering tale of a man who asks for it and, unfortunately, gets it.
Arun Kale
Book Review: Brahma Dreaming
In India, entire childhoods are spent listening to stories of Rama, Krishna, Hanuman, and Draupadi. Each night, children climb into their beds, nestling up against their grandparents, demanding a retelling of the adventures of their favourite religious heroes. Clearly, we are a society obsessed with its mythologies. John Jackson'
Book Review: Gone with the Vindaloo
Our tale begins in colonial India, where a brilliant storyteller becomes a cunning dubashi, a mateen becomes an ansari with a pompously glorified and contorted past, and a kathua---Kalaam---falsely ousted from his yarn-weaving profession, discovers a rare talent for cooking. Vikram Nair's Gone with the Vindaloo (Purchase) Vikram
The City Speaks #29
"Algomantra" coined by Rohit Gupta.
Unspoken, Ignored, Misrepresented: Giving a Voice to Victims of Stalking
Stalked: Scars in Time & Space is an essay of black-and-white photographs by Mumbai-based filmmaker Aishwarya Arumbakkam that aims to portray the violation, humiliation, and trauma experienced by victims of stalking; to encourage understanding and dialogue about the same. Stalked: Scars in Time & Space will be exhibited at Atta
The Oracle of Tripe #12
Ever curious about your dying day? The Oracle of Tripe has all the answers. Won-Tolla presents the bewildering tale of a man who asks for it and, unfortunately, gets it.
Download Halflife, Former Them Clones Guitarist Gucci Singh's New Album
"Different thoughts and concepts hatch at different points in your life, and bend you a little into the shape of your songs," says Gucci Singh, ex-guitarist and founding member of popular Delhi rock band Them Clones. Singh has just released Halflife, his first album under the moniker of
The City Speaks #28
Chasing Anna
For people living in Pune, the village of Ralegan Siddhi is not such an unusual choice for a day picnic, though I was surprised at how eager my family members were to visit the place when I suggested it. I suspected that their enthusiasm might have something to do with
Real Development
Inclusion, participation, democracy, we shout silently from our desks in our soundproof, air-conditioned classrooms. We need Development, we shout---and Real Development, not Western Development. There are communities whose labels we like to keep in our back pockets (we are development studies students, after all): slum dwellers, tribals, homeless, lower income
Bringing Up Uncle
I’ve always taken my uncle-ing responsibilities seriously. Even before my little nephew was born, this much was clear to me: growing up, I didn’t have an elder male figure I could depend on to bail me out of trouble, or even to show me the ropes to basic
The Oracle of Tripe #11
Ever curious about your dying day? The Oracle of Tripe has all the answers. Won-Tolla presents the bewildering tale of a man who asks for it and, unfortunately, gets it.