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Category: Non-Fiction

February, 2017

An interview with Shailaja Padindala

The short film ‘Memories of a Machine’ was screened on 15th Oct, 2016 at the Seattle South Asian Film Festival. Written and directed by Shailaja Padindala,..

February, 2017

Mehnat and Mazdoori in Barcelona

My husband and I are on our way from Madras to Paris. Chennai, actually. Calling the city Madras is more like responding to our pet..

January, 2017

Educating Oneself

I went to the University of Texas because it’s where my mother would have gone if she’d had the chance to go to school beyond..

December, 2016

The Sway

In Ecuador I keep seeing a trace of 17th Century handcarts known, at one time, to have carried Confucius. But now we’ve come to..

November, 2016

A Magical Review: Harry Potter and The Cursed Child

Harry Potter and The Cursed Child hit the bookstores on 31st July, 2016 and it has been causing an insane amount of excitement across..

November, 2016

The Commune

America has a long history of utopian experiments, a history that stretches far beyond the hippie communes of the 1960s. Some of the earliest European..

August, 2016

Mahasweta Devi: Writing as Protest

Embed from Getty Images When I first read Mahasweta Devi’s Draupadi, it created a minor explosion in my ‘reading’ life. The theme and starkness..

July, 2016

In a Dark Wood

1 There were four bunks in the room and two seemed already claimed. Some boxes sat on them, partly opened, and some clothes hung on..

July, 2016

Colored Lights

Belmont is a neighborhood for lawn ornaments. We decorate the private landscape: Canada geese by the front walk, pink flamingos in the garden bed, a..

June, 2016

From the Editorial Desk

It is our tendency often, to divide the world. The cans and can-nots, the haves and have-nots, deserving and the undeserving, all become part of..

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