All the Caged Things
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Radhaben Garva: Painting the Women’s Movement
Nilanjana S. Roy & Radhaben Garva
‘All of everyday life is here.’
In Conversation: Tishani Doshi and Karthika Naïr
Tishani Doshi & Karthika Naïr
‘I have never felt it as a poet, and that is why I’m doubly grateful to dance, for having experienced the loneliness and the terror of the empty stage, but also, to have had that live connection.’
Dr J
Kalpana Narayanan
‘My father has his own language for everything. When I finished my MFA, I was a NINJA: No Income, No Job, No Assets.’
Lagos Must Prosper
Alexis Okeowo
21 million people, $91 billion GDP, an ambitious governor whose term is up: Alexis Okeowo on the megacity of Lagos
Item Girls
Kuzhali Manickavel
‘I have heard the item girls singing each to each. / I do not think they will sing to me.’
Look Out, Narendran!
Subha
A madman is dead set on blowing up the Taj Mahal, and there’s only one pair of detectives who can stop him. Tamil Pulp Fiction at its best.
Sarah Hall | Five Things Right Now
Sarah Hall
Sarah Hall, a Granta Best of Young British Novelist, shares five things she’s reading, watching and thinking about.
Interview: Leslee Udwin
Leslee Udwin & Sonia Faleiro
‘It’s the barrel that rots the apples.’ Leslee Udwin talks to Sonia Faleiro about her film India's Daughter.
Sisters
Anjum Hasan
The sick and the healthy have nothing in common, thinks Jaan. She’s been dreaming of...
Love Jihad
Aman Sethi
‘He said Love Jihad, or the practice of Muslims seducing Hindu girls with the aim of converting them to Islam, was an existential threat to India.’
A Double-Income Family
Deepti Kapoor
When Mrs Mehra leaves Delhi she retires in one of ‘the vast new satellite townships on the eastern fringes of the metropolis’.
Pyre
Amitava Kumar
‘In more ways than one, the rituals of death had reminded me that I was an outsider.’
Shoes
Anjali Joseph
‘Like scraps of leather, oddly shaped, things from life, people and sayings and objects, found themselves spliced together.’
English Summer
Amit Chaudhuri
‘What am I doing in London? And what’ll I do once I’m back in India?' Amit Chaudhuri on identity, youth and nostalgia.
Gandhi the Londoner
Sam Miller
‘On 29 September 1888, an Indian teenager with a mild case of ringworm and a fine head of hair sailed into the Thames Estuary.’ Sam Miller on Gandhi’s time in London.
The Ghost in the Kimono
Raghu Karnad
Deep in the dense volume of Delhi’s history Raghu Kardad investigates ‘the remarkable, untold story of the Japanese in the Old Fort’.
Download Errors
Nandan Ghiya
‘The moment I see these portraits, my first thought is: Let’s make it for suitable for the twenty-first century.’
Five Things Right Now: Urvashi Butalia
Urvashi Butalia
Urvashi Butalia is the co-founder of Kali for Women, India’s first feminist press. She shares five things she’s reading, watching and thinking about right now.
Sanjay Nagar Blues
Anjum Hasan
‘motorcyclists like to howl / and dogs drop bulging bags of garbage / from their mouths when they see other dogs / they want to mount’
Othello Sucks
Upamanyu Chatterjee
Younger Daughter’s declaration that ‘Othello sucks’ prompts a conflicted response from Father.
Breach Candy
Samanth Subramanian
‘There are clubs like the Breach Candy Club all over the Indian subcontinent: relics of the Raj, institutions that were set up as bolt-holes for the British, where they could retreat to row or swim or play cricket or race horses.’
Annawadi
Katherine Boo
In 2007 Katherine Boo travelled to Annawadi – a slum built on Mumbai Airport land – to document the lives of the families living there.
Vinod Kumar Shukla: Two Poems
Vinod Kumar Shukla
‘The truth is, though no one says it, / They’re all worried about their children.’
Sticky Fingers
Arun Kolatkar
‘Selecting the right kind of a tomato was crucial for the scam to work.’
The Afterlife of Trees and Their Lovers
Sumana Roy
‘It is difficult to imagine a history of trees / without man in it. Man as tree, Tree as tale.’
Rain at Three
Tishani Doshi
‘Rain at three splits the bed in half, / cracks at windows like horsemen blistering / through a century of hibernation.’
The Wrong Square
Neel Mukherjee
‘Something as fundamental to intelligence as counting was eluding him.’
