We need to think about writing the resistance , not just writing as resistance . The comfort and semi-glamour of the art world often...

(as it appeared) Looking back after nearly a quarter century, with the benefit of both hindsight and nostalgia, I think the decision to...

Writer-activist Meena Kandasamy has dubbed the Union government’s ₹57,991-lakh-crore Sagarmala programme, purportedly for the development...

October 2021 When I first rushed to break the news to Cedric, my partner, that I was to meet Rahul Gandhi, he could barely conceal his...

In March 2020, I came to Delhi to write about the anti-Muslim violence unleashed on its streets in the wake of the citizenship protests....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has made seven visits to Tamil Nadu in the last forty days, trying hard to woo Tamilians with every trick in...

The climate for media and free speech in India is in a dangerous place. The country is already ranked 161 out of 180 countries in the...

Acceptance speech on receiving the HERMANN KESTEN PRIZE 2022, Darmstadt, 15 Nov Good evening! I thank PEN-Center Germany for conferring...

Rahul Gandhi on the first day of the Bharat Jodo Yatra (pic by Kandasamy) There is something about Rahul Gandhi’s carefree physical...

On January 25, 1965, a year before the Official Languages Act was to come into force, 27-year-old Keelapaloor Chinnasamy, the only son of...

(with G Vishnu, in Udupi) Large sections of media have framed the protests by Muslim girls in Udupi to wear a hijab inside the classroom...

(With G. Vishnu, I wrote on how political posturing in the Karnataka hijab row hardened into an ideological stand-off) On February 8, a...

Dear saffron-scarf-wearing girls and boys, Namaskaram! I take the liberty of writing to you although I have never met you. When I first...

When the Suriya-starrer Jai Bhim rele­ased on Amazon Prime on Nove­m­ber 1, it was greeted with uni­­versal praise, with the film...

Sometimes, a photograph arrests your attention and holds you in its thrall. Right at the moment of your first encounter with the image,...