Poetry, fiction, essays, and reviews that take the home seriously as a political site — exploring labour, loyalty, and what care really asks of us.
Care, Kinship & Domestic Worlds
An Enhanced Version of Yourself A woman uploads her photograph into an Instagram filter that promises......
Read MoreOver the last two decades, children’s literature in India has evolved in remarkable ways, and sector-building......
Read MoreTo paraphrase Keats, “A thing of simplicity is a joy forever/ Its loveliness increases/ It will......
Read Morein the Chronicles of Courage and Songs of Freedom series It is a matter of great......
Read MoreA reflective piece on The Forgotten Folklore Project and the strange curriculum of growing up in......
Read MoreAn excerpt from “Representing Diverse Childhoods” by Tultul Biswas from Children’s Books: An Indian Story, Ed.......
Read MoreIt is not unusual to reflect on things when a milestone is just around the corner.......
Read MoreCan a cup of coffee reveal the social anxieties of an entire society? What do coffee......
Read MoreI am waiting for her at the edge of my body—I look here, I look there—endless......
Read MoreAt Madhvi Parekh: A Life in Line, Memory and Myth, each canvas seems to tell a......
Read MoreIt was a deserted lane. The street lights threw insufficient light. The only sound was the......
Read MoreMusings on Earth Day Megha Majumdar’s ‘A Guardian and a Thief’, which was longlisted for the......
Read MoreThe first few pages of Nasima Anis’s novel reads like a documentary. A camera leading us......
Read MoreIn the vibrant, tumultuous Kolkata of the 1970s, four girls in their late-teens–Bulan, Renu, Suman, and......
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