'Woman in Charge' is a new series on Helter Skelter that explores the life of a female Pradhan in a Kumaoni village. Mountain traditions run deep in her veins, and yet she desires progress for her family and community. The stories are based on true events. Tara walked
Swati Chaturvedi, in her introduction to I Am A Troll: Inside the Secret World of the B.J.P.’s Digital Army, lays out her professional background and experience as an investigative journalist who has been fighting hard for her freedom of expression, while also being at the receiving end
First off, Slow Startle is a book about death. Rohan Chhetri does not make any bones about it. Chhetri’s poetic world is a hologram of memory, it shudders with a wind breaking on his face, and enters his poems (like violence enters his poems), they seem as though they’
'Woman in Charge' is a new series on Helter Skelter that explores the life of a female Pradhan in a Kumaoni village. Mountain traditions run deep in her veins, and yet she desires progress for her family and community. The stories are based on true events. “There are
My boyfriend’s---let's call him R---flat is right next to the office of his apartment building's society committee. On Sundays, when the Uncles, and one Aunty, meet, I can hear everything that they discuss. I know how much it costs to paint all eight buildings in
When Shakespeare wrote King Lear, he deviated from his source (Holinshed’s Chronicles) in two ways---he changed the climax from a happy one to a tragic one and he added the subplot of the Earl of Gloucester and his sons Edgar and Edmund. In the Holinshed timeline of events, King
Now more than ever, it seems as though all the world’s a hashtag. While most of us are happy to react to increasingly ridiculous happenings from around the world---often with an emoji, occasionally with the odd heartfelt rant-essay---one brave, anonymous soul decided the only way to deal with their
'Woman in Charge' is a new series on Helter Skelter that explores the life of a female Pradhan in a Kumaoni village. Mountain traditions run deep in her veins, and yet she desires progress for her family and community. The stories are based on true events. On a
'Woman in Charge' is a new series on Helter Skelter that explores the life of a female Pradhan in a Kumaoni village. Mountain traditions run deep in her veins, and yet she desires progress for her family and community. The stories are based on true events. It was
It is easy to be indignant about Manu Joseph, if you have read his columns. He believes that farmer suicides are less a factor of poverty than depression; that 99% of Indian men have far fewer opportunities than many urban Indian feminists; and that the pursuit of happiness is a
'Woman in Charge' is a new series on Helter Skelter that explores the life of a female Pradhan in a Kumaoni village. Mountain traditions run deep in her veins, and yet she desires progress for her family and community. The stories are based on true events. Because the
Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods, Tishani Doshi’s latest collection of poetry, is polyphonic in its concerns. Her poems address mortality, love, identity, and loss, as much as they address gender roles and the terrible violence that these roles enable, as much as they address the redemptive powers