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Pages from a Diary

On Dogs, The Odyssey & Life At Large

Gaurav Kamath -
“Ulysses shed a tear; I only dirtied a linen shirt.”
Culture Couch

Notes from Post-Colonial India

Aarushi Aggarwal -
Satyajit Ray: life, influences, writings
Pages from a Diary

Himalayan Foothills

Clancy Martin -
“We kept looking at our two-year-old like: we know we have to take care of you, but we don’t know what to do.”
Pages from a Diary

The Angel of Tsomang

Kaustav Sood -
“Returning was, in many ways, harder than setting out had been. My nerves were wrecked, I couldn’t feel my legs, and the silence had finally caught up to me.”
Armchair Arbiters

Subaltern Histories and Regional Identity in ‘Southeast Asia in World History’

Rheea Saggar -
A review of Craig Lockard’s book ‘Southeast Asia In World history’
Armchair Arbiters

“Explain it to this camera”: Cinema as History and Healing in Abbas Kiarostami’s Close-Up (1990)

Hannah Dove -
A review of Abbas Kiarostami’s 'Close-Up' (1990)
Inkblots

“Undifferentiated Brown Stuff”: Daljit Nagra and Travelling Poetry

Anushmita Mohanty -
In this collection, poetry becomes a way of signalling: we are not alone
Reflections

On The Semantic Wonder of Foul Language

Gaurav Kamath -
"Profanity conveys emotion in a manner that ‘cleaner’ language struggles to—and who wouldn’t want the ability to so powerfully and instantaneously express emotion?"
Inkblots

The Undaunted Poetry of Louise Glück

ALMA Staff -
"Glück’s voice was shaped by bedtime stories narrated to her by her father, a Hungarian immigrant to the USA, who helped invent the X-Acto knife. The influence shows: her writing is as knife-sharp, incisive, and clean as a bone."
Opinion

India On The Brink: The Folly Of Poor Economics

Aarushi Aggarwal -
"Covid-19 merely exacerbated structural shortcomings in the economy, which had been ailing long before the coronavirus reached India’s shores."
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