There are certain recurring themes in Jhumpa Lahiri’s stories that have come to be associated with her---the Bengali immigrant in unaccustomed landscapes, the solitary nature of academic life in America, an unshakable and intense melancholia that her characters seem to so willingly embrace themselves in, and the rich psychological
The School of Arts and Aesthetics at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, is combining form and content in 'Mapping Gender', a rich new exhibition by its M.Phil. Visual Studies students. Using their study of curatorial practice and art forms, the students are putting up a carefully
The woman in the desert is not a woman at all, but an English song. The quiet hum of a married girl, but her distant gaze is bound to the Sea, like fantasy. She’s younger than the vanishing horses along the vacation shore, she’s younger than the eggs
 Ladies and gentlemen, can I have your attention, please? Ah, much better. Tonight, we won’t be serving our excellent pinot noir, for we fear that inebriated conversations, piping to the rhythm of the soft tinkle of delicate cutlery and held captive by
A school day gets over. Children mill around the area, with their parents in tow. Mini buses and other public vehicles clog the road, while aloo kabli vendors and puchkawalas and cotton candy sellers jostle with soft drink and ice cream carts. I stand at the tree across the road
Mihir Vatsa is the recipient of the Srinivas Rayaprol Poetry Prize for 2013. He grew up in Hazaribagh, Jharkhand, and currently lives in New Delhi where he is pursuing a postgraduate degree in English. His poems have appeared in Eclectica Magazine, The Four Quarters Magazine, UCity Review and elsewhere. Since
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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.
Krishna Udayasankar’s Kaurava, book two in the Aryavarta Chronicles trilogy, always ran the risk of being a dull addendum to the first part (Govinda); a sort of buffer zone between the curious beginnings of a first book and the exhilaration of tying up loose ends in a third. As
The idea that we can never really shake off where we come from is an overused and sometimes oversentimental one, particularly for people who don’t really feel like they “come from” anywhere for most of their lives. And they don't care, because what one does is more