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Writing that follows people through cities — protest sites, transit, urban memory, and the gendered geography of streets and public space.

Cities, Space & Everyday Life

Venkatesh Swamy
June 22, 2026

It is not unusual to reflect on things when a milestone is just around the corner.......

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Sayani Sarkar
May 31, 2026

Can a cup of coffee reveal the social anxieties of an entire society? What do coffee......

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Shamita Dasgupta
April 29, 2026

In the vibrant, tumultuous Kolkata of the 1970s, four girls in their late-teens–Bulan, Renu, Suman, and......

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Subhrasankar Das
April 29, 2026

(First published in Galpabiswa, march 2024) Just like physical objects, which succumb to wear and tear......

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Anuradha Vijayakrishnan
March 15, 2026

One Day, One Morning is the story of two families — Ammachi’s and Molamma’s; of two......

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Vidya Shankar
February 10, 2026

It was the first time I was stepping out of the house after the hysterectomy. My......

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Sanket Mhatre
February 10, 2026

Bending over clouds We are dunked, face first Into the broken arteries of Kolkata: Dissected torso......

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Aranya
February 10, 2026

Where is a slogan born? When does a sack of rice begin to speak? The moon......

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Aranya
February 10, 2026

At Mandir Marg police station, I saw, as I stepped off a private bus spilling with......

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Sena Chang
February 10, 2026

It starts like this: a girl, a train, a man. The man asks the girl will......

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Subhash S
February 10, 2026

2026 – Dream in Berth 61 In Berth 61, the chai floats upward. It steams against......

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Usawa Editorial Team
February 10, 2026

So many of them barefoot and merry striding through the unholy muck on the ghats at......

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Tathagat Chaubey
January 4, 2026

on october 21st at around 1730,a bulldozer excavates dirt. anda migrating flock of herons-maybe-flock around it.......

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Huzaifa Pandit
January 4, 2026

When we remain the last speakersof the dialect of damp decades,who will listen to the cry......

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Vrinda Varma
January 4, 2026

✕ ‹ › Jacques Derrida, in his 1995 work, Mal d’Archive, spoke about the feverish desire......

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