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Feminist writing on state power, caste, migration, and the structures that decide whose life is legible — across poetry, fiction, and essays.

Power, Borders & Exclusions

Madhuri Kankipati
June 27, 2026

An Enhanced Version of Yourself A woman uploads her photograph into an Instagram filter that promises......

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Maulshree Kalothia
June 23, 2026

Over the last two decades, children’s literature in India has evolved in remarkable ways, and sector-building......

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Sujata Noronha
June 23, 2026

We are a group of library educators and library facilitators at Bookworm, a library-based organisation in......

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Rati Girish
June 23, 2026

To paraphrase Keats, “A thing of simplicity is a joy forever/ Its loveliness increases/ It will......

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Sayoni Basu
June 23, 2026

in the Chronicles of Courage and Songs of Freedom series It is a matter of great......

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Salini Vineeth
June 23, 2026

As a child growing up in rural Kerala, I didn’t have the skill or inclination to......

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Tultul Biswas
June 22, 2026

An excerpt from “Representing Diverse Childhoods” by Tultul Biswas from Children’s Books: An Indian Story, Ed.......

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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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Jatin Lalit
June 22, 2026

Sitting on a bench in the library, I noticed a group of children, no older than......

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Suchi Govindarajan
June 4, 2026

I remember one of my first safaris in Karnataka’s jungles. It was a Friday morning. We......

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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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Kareena Mehta
May 31, 2026

To the One Who Had to Grieve the Parent They Never Really Had You call them......

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Vaishnavi
May 29, 2026

When the Supreme Court chief justice compared youngsters to cockroaches, the youth made their contempt known.......

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Ashwani Kumar
May 28, 2026

I wake up early,arrange the antique rugs from Beirutchange the flowers in the vase,the window glass......

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Ashwani Kumar
May 28, 2026

A pillar, monk-grey, still standing,while the slumbering flesh of stone collapsesinto the slow erasure of desire.Hannah......

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Ashwani Kumar
May 28, 2026

Every day, the windows fill with lavender light—I bite my lips, then rinse my face, brush......

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