Can an Exhibition Memorialize the 1947 Partition of the Indian Subcontinent?
Arundhati Kalyan reviews ‘Proposals for a Memorial to Partition’ at Dubai’s Jameel Arts Centre, probing the question of whether art, curation, and current conceptions of memorialization can do justice to a tragic historical event of this scale
The Pandemic Radically Altered My Relationship with India. I Don’t Know If I Can Ever Go Back
A personal essay explores navigating the COVID-19 pandemic in India, the surrounding political turmoil, and their effects on identity and belonging
Binocular Rivalry
A series of haunting landscape photographs taken in West Bengal, India, as part of Arindam Manna’s graduate thesis
Postcard
Kolkata-based poet Mallika Bhaumik writes a summer pastoral, revelling in the lyricism of jasmines, letters, fireflies, rice, and sunlight
A Conversation with Photographer Sohrab Hura, Curator of ‘Growing Like A Tree’
An interview with prolific Delhi-based photographer Sohrab Hura, the curator of Ishara Art Foundation's new exhibition in Dubai
Village Women
In these vibrant paintings by Arpa Mukhopadhyay, the village belles of India’s countryside float between places, borderless and transient
Milk Shop
Amid clamoring customers, a woman reaches for literature. A simple, mundane space of service, imbued with hope, desire, and imagination
The Liftman
"Tucked into one corner of the small lift, he leaned against the back wall and diligently pressed the buttons all day." A short story set in Kolkata, India about a schoolgirl's growing awareness of a service worker
The Colors Drained Out of Lives of Migrants
महानगर के प्रवासी मज़दूर बने कैदी| When livelihood becomes a prison. Jodhpur-based artist Shilpa Mridul’s “The Colors Drained out of Lives of Migrants” draws on ancient Indian print design to address the India of today
En Route
A prose-poem in memory of those on the Dubai-Calicut plane crash from last August 2020
The Pills are the Only Proof
“I see your daughter has decided to become a prostitute now.”“I tested negative.”
Kadalamma speaks to me
A poem borne from the seas of the Gulf Corniche, Kerala, and spirit, by Aathma Nirmala Dious.
Cities and Eyes: The Twin Cities
New fiction inspired by Italo Calvino, by Zoe Jane Patterson.
Growing Up With Rohan
A queer realization set in India. New in fiction, by Kaashif Hajee.
The Question of the Authentic Indian
In a striking short story titled Out on Main Street, the writer and visual artist Shani Mootoo deconstructs the idea of the authentic Indian identity, countering it with the notion of hybridity.
new delhi
In a poem as short as breath, Vamika Sinha presents the city she comes from.