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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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Vauhini Vara in Conversation with Tanya Samal
The conversation scrutinizes how technology companies' products shape human understanding and communication, prioritizing corporate objectives over individual agency and the...
Vivek Shanbhag on Translation and on His New Journey with Hyphen in conversation with Kabir Deb
Shanbhag discusses the founding of Hyphen, a publishing venture aimed at reviving direct translation between Indian languages. He addresses the...
A. Naseeb Khan on “The Book of Death” in Conversation with Rituparna Mukherjee
Translation is an ethical reanimation of memory against ecological erasure, where conveying consciousness demands navigating profound psychological and aesthetic tensions...
Khalid Jawed on “The Book of Death” in Conversation with Rituparna Mukherjee
Jawed re-frames death, suicide, and disgust as integral to life, asserting literature's ethical imperative to explore unsettling interiorities and societal...
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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...
Amrita Mahale on ‘Real Life’ in Conversation with Rituparna Mukherjee
Amrita Mahale discusses her novel's exploration of women's pursuit of authenticity against societal control. She draws parallels to how AI,...
Farah Ahamed in Conversation with Shikha Sawhney Lamba
Ahamed traces the evolution of menstrual advocacy from silence to visibility, examining how material deprivation intersects with cultural stigma. Her...
Kalpana Karunakaran on ‘A Woman of No Consequence’ in Conversation with Aditi Dasgupta
The discussion critically unpacks the political weight of women's "ordinary" domestic lives, exposing how historical narratives dismiss these experiences and...
