Culture
A Different Birthday
A birthday visit to Kochi becomes a meditation on art, performance, travel, and grief.
Section
Non-Fiction
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Nature & Environment
In Search of Wild Rest
A walk through Dhanaulti turns into a reflection on trees, forest memory, and wild rest.
Book Reviews
The World Is an Absurd Offering: A Review of Suchita Parikh-Mundul’s Absurd Theatre
Kabir Deb reviews Suchita Parikh-Mundul’s Absurd Theatre.
Book Reviews
The Hour of God by Vinita Agrawal
Shabnam Mirchandani reviews Vinita Agrawal’s The Hour of God.
Cinema
Many Cinemas of Manipur
Arijit Sen, an independent journalist, writes about Boong, the winner of the best children’s film at the BAFTA
Book Reviews
Five Modern Bengali Poet: A Book Review
Sekhar Banarjee reviews Five Modern Bengali Poets
Creative Non-Fiction
The Value of a Quarter
On a vacation in Bali, a taxi driver leans over to my white husband in the front seat and says, “Your wife is brown and beautiful, just like me!” In Cambodia, a tuk tuk driver tries to flirt his way into getting me to pick him over the other drivers
Literature
In Opposition of Poetic Tradition: A Poet’s Guide to Transcending Eurocentricity
Bianca Alyssa Pérez shows us in this essay how poets Laurie Ann Guerrero, Audre Lorde, and Gris Muñoz use free verse, personal experience, and linguistic subversion to challenge and transcend Eurocentric poetic traditions.
Book Reviews
A Nod of Veneration
Lakshmi Kannan reviews Anita Nahal’s Animals: Prose Poems on sentiency, decency and indecency.
Non-Fiction
Notes From Kochi Biennale 2026
This photo essay is compiled by Param Venkataraman reflecting on his visit to the Kochi Biennale 2026.
Book Reviews
Called by the Hills: A Book Review
Rituparna Roy reviews Anuradha Roy’s Called by the Hills: A Home in the Himalaya.
Creative Non-Fiction
The Sparkle and the Spiral
KC Peek writes a personal memoir alongside an analysis of The Twilight Saga to explore how a bipolar disorder diagnosis, low self-worth, and cultural narratives about romantic love intersected in her life.
Creative Non-Fiction
Being True to the Story
Bubba Henson recounts a late-night encounter while waiting tables in 1979 Beverly Hills, serving Christie McVie and Dennis Wilson during what turns out to be an emotional, intimate moment following his marriage proposal.
Book Reviews
An Eclectic Take on a Life Extraordinary
Rituparna Roy reviews the new book-‘Unmechanical-Ritwik Ghatak in 50 Fragments’ in a personal essay.
Culture
Writing From The Solitary: An Anthology Of Loneliness
An excerpt from the book ‘Writing from the Solitary: An Anthology of Loneliness’ edited by Dr. Semeen Ali and Priyanka Sarkar
Book Reviews
Dialectics of Self Knowing
Sudeep Ghosh reviews So That You Know, a collection of poems by Mani Rao.
Literature
150 Years of Rainer Maria Rilke
The year 2025 marks the 150th year of the birth of Rainer Rilke, and as we enter the centenary of his passing in December, Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri looks at some of Rainer Rilke’s greatest poems and how they impacted him.
Creative Non-Fiction
The Muddy Path of Tulatulahan
This essay, written by Vartan Koumrouyan, recounts the author’s experience living in rural Palawan, Philippines, during a period of relentless rain and storms.
Nature & Environment
Crying Like Wildfire
This personal essay recounts the Noro Otitigbe’s experience during the Southern California wildfires in January 2025.
Creative Non-Fiction
The Roots of Teeth and Trees
Devashish Makhija explores themes of growth, displacement, and nostalgia through this personal essay.
Nature & Environment
Photo Essay by Bishweshwar Das
Bishweshwar Das’s photo essay from Bhopal on the 41st anniversary of the Bhopal Gas tragedy.
Creative Non-Fiction
Sitting with Solitude
A personal narrative about Holly Claytor’s experience as an American au pair living with a French family in Provence.
Book Reviews
Footnotes to the Mahabharata by K. Srilata
Basudhara Roy reviews K. Srilata’s Footnotes to the Mahabharata.
Book Reviews
Main Jab Tak Aai Baahar by Gagan Gill
Sudeep Ghosh reviews Gagan Gill’s Main Jab Tak Aai Baahar