Translations
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Shikhandi: And Other Tales They Don’t Tell You
Patriarchy asserts men are superior to women, Feminism clarifies women and men are equal, Queerness questions what constitutes male and female.
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Lakshmi’s Purana
Traditional storytellers did not look upon deities as historical or supernatural beings; they were living beings who lived ordinary lives amongst ordinary people to communicate sublime, or shall we say, extraordinary, ideas.
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Reverse Love
It is a case of ‘reverse love’, or what the scriptures refer to as ‘vipreet-bhakti’, a state where you hate the enemy so much that you think about them all the time and it ends up being dedicated devotion.
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That Delightful Honeymoon
In the mouths of political celibates, the word ‘honeymoon’ can become vulgar. But the word itself is full of tenderness, anxieties and aspirations of newly weds.
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No Diversity in Babel
Yes, diversity creates conflict and competition but it also allows for the rising of new ideas.
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Readymade Babies
Lately, we are hearing a lot about these new ways of baby making. Makes us think – depending on who we are that either the world is becoming very modern or everything is collapsing.
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Beloved of Dushyant
I am no theatre critic but it was interesting to see how the same mythic framework of falling in love, separation, anticipation, rejection and finally reconciliation can be applied to a romantic story between a man and a woman as…
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Thoughts: On “Business Sutra” by Bibek Debroy
“This book can’t be reviewed. It has to be read.” – B. Debroy
