Going Black: The Commodification of Hip-Hop Culture
“The commodification of hip-hop leads to a watering down of its content. As corporations try to capture as much of the market as possible, they ‘tone down’ hip-hop’s radical aspects to make it as palatable for consumers as possible.”
A Concert for Plastic Bottles
How can humans begin to befriend plastic? This piece stems from an assignment that involved creating a 5-minute concert where both humans and a mass of empty water bottles were considered part of the audience.
Bhupi's Dream: What is World Literature?
"It was the German writer Goethe who coined the term Weltliteratur, but it is the Nepali poet Bhupi Sherchan who compelled me to consider, seriously, the idea of world literature..." writes Chiran Raj Pandey.