If people can’t have catharsis using dissent and caricature, they are doomed to rot in a repressed state of permanent morbidity. If you can’t take…
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Category: Culture
The place of beauty in the world, a world without beauty, what beauty does for and to us…
We may think of it simply as a resonant moment of ‘accord’. The accord between emotion and intellect, immediacy and timelessness, creature and creature, story…
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‘Gamble everything for love if you are a true human being’: Jalaluddin Rumi
‘Rumi advocates oneness of existence which leads to the cessation of hatred, and makes love inevitable. This message has never been as relevant as it…
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Our madmen… can crack open continents… like eggs
‘They had begun using ice-cream trucks to store bodies, bodies of children’ By Bharat Shekhar TO RETURN, ITEMS MUST BE IN THEIR ORIGINAL PACKING Having run…
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‘As a ‘Madrasi’ child, everything I heard around me sounded like ‘Hindi…’
Linguistically, in terms of vocabulary, grammar, and creative output, many Indian languages surpass Hindi easily. The literacy rates in mother tongues like Tamil, Malayalam, Bangla,…
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Saklain Yousuf’s ‘Kashmiri GPT’: A Revolutionary Step
Yousuf’s commitment to preserving and promoting the rich inheritance of Kashmiri language and culture through AI technology is a testament to the power of innovation…
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Wildlife photography is a true test of patience
They say the wild has seen you a hundred times before you see it even once, and that couldn’t be more accurate Five minute read…
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‘Don’t touch me, don’t touch me!’
Two little girls stare back from the photograph, their hands wrapped in heavy bandages. One is perhaps around five-years-old, the other barely three, innocence peeping…
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So, Say Cheese, Please!
In a pristine and remote mountain hamlet, dreams are now made of cheese. One ‘Cheese Wheel’ at a time. While stoic Kashmiri women rewrite their…
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Who loves you when you’re failing, falling, breaking apart?
Not the sleepless nights you endure. They see the results you put on paper. Not the battles you fight behind closed doors By Umesh Kumari No one loves…
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