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Long-form conversations with writers, translators, and thinkers. On text and authorship, memory and erasure, transnational solidarity, and the politics of language.
Long-form conversations with writers, translators, and thinkers. On text and authorship, memory and erasure, transnational solidarity, and the politics of language.
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Devashish Makhija In Conversation With Kabir Deb
A. Naseeb Khan on “The Book of Death” in Conversation with Rituparna Mukherjee
Anisha Lalvani in Conversation with Kabir Deb
Memory & Time
A curated collection
Aditi Maheshwari Goyal in Conversation with Kinshuk Gupta
The conversation challenges assumptions of scarcity in Hindi ecological writing, affirming Vani Prithvi’s project of cultivating a deeply rooted, culturally...
Barnali Ray Shukla in Conversation with Vinita Agrawal
Perilous professions in the Global South foreground human resilience against economic precarity and societal division, prompting questions about motivations for...
War and Women: Breaking the Code of Silence. Garima Srivastava in Conversation with Dr. Neekee Chaturvedi
The conversation scrutinizes the deliberate weaponization of sexual violence in war, revealing how systemic silences and inadequate state responses perpetuate...
Gopal Lahiri in Conversation with Kabir Deb
Lahiri asserts poetry's vital agency against societal fragmentation and censorship, critically assessing its evolving forms and craft challenges in a...
Professor Dato’ Dr. Andrew Mohanraj in Conversation with Aneeta Sundararaj
Pioneering sustainable, community-based mental health systems in disaster-stricken Global South regions exacts profound personal and systemic costs, challenging traditional institutional...
A Search For What Lies Beyond Life And Faith, V. Ramaswamy in Conversation with Kabir Deb
Translation's activist role confronts entrenched bigotry and power systems, aiming to expand global consciousness and foster human connection against societal...
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Sheela Tomy, an award-winning writer in Conversation with Prarthana
Tomy positions fiction as alternative historiography, privileging scriptless languages and marginal voices against dominant narratives. Her work interrogates how literary...
Sravana Borkataky-Varma and Anya Foxen on ‘The Serpent’s Tale: Kundalini, Yoga and the History of an Experience’ in conversation with Kabir Deb
The authors trace kundalini's serpentine iconography across Indo-European mythologies, examining how Western anxieties about transgression shape contemporary spiritual discourse, while...
Gokul Gopalakrishnan, Dy. Commissioner, cartoonist and comic art researcher in Conversation with Nithya Mariam John
Gopalakrishnan locates his comic practice at the intersection of bureaucratic problem-solving and literary aesthetics, drawing on anthropomorphic conventions to establish...
Shivangi Gupta in Conversation with Rakesh Kumar
Cross-dressing male performers embody female suffering in Launda Naach, a Bhojpuri folk tradition shadowed by questions of gendered representation, sexualization,...
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Sheela Tomy, an award-winning writer in Conversation with Prarthana
Tomy positions fiction as alternative historiography, privileging scriptless languages and marginal voices against dominant narratives. Her work interrogates how literary...
Gokul Gopalakrishnan, Dy. Commissioner, cartoonist and comic art researcher in Conversation with Nithya Mariam John
Gopalakrishnan locates his comic practice at the intersection of bureaucratic problem-solving and literary aesthetics, drawing on anthropomorphic conventions to establish...
Divya Karnad, the first Indian woman to receive the Future for Nature Award for shark conservation in Conversation with Nithya Mariam John
Karnad's work links shark conservation to livelihoods and food systems, challenging the charismatic, forest-centered paradigms of wildlife conservation. Her sustainable...
A.R. Venkatachalapathy on ‘Coffee, Caste, and Colonial Tamil Nadu’ in Conversation with Sayani Sarkar
Venkatachalapathy traces how coffee hotels in colonial Tamil Nadu became sites where caste discrimination, middle-class aspiration, and early labour movements...
