by Priya Satia | Apr 10, 2018 | Cover Story, Opinion
When the academy was the exclusive playground of white men, it produced the theories of race, gender, and Western cultural superiority that underwrote imperialism abroad and inequality at home. In recent decades, women and people of color have been critical to...
by Vinita Belani | Mar 12, 2018 | Cover Story
Kasoval, 1947 It was a hot August afternoon and the heat of Kasoval village made the dust stick to his shirt. He was headed home from school with his younger brother in tow and he was irritated. The maulvi had made him re-do his Urdu calligraphy again, giving his...
by Pavani Kaushik | Feb 20, 2018 | Cover Story
On Christmas morning, we marked Santa’s generosity with the usual hubbub of excited squeals, exclamations, and the cataloging via smart phones. And through it all I watched a child’s infectious joy blossom. The feeling was one of gratitude – for the...
by Parthiv Parekh | Feb 13, 2018 | Cover Story
A lot has been said about the now infamous date between Aziz Ansari, the comedian, and a 23-year-old woman going by the pseudonym of Grace. Utter disgust is about how best I can describe my feelings after having read Grace’s graphic account of her date with Ansari....
by Geetika Pathania Jain | Dec 1, 2017 | Cover Story
Comedians, like clowns, have a special license to help us enter a liminal area where the boundary between reality and imagination is blurred. We can think of them as the “no man’s land” of political critique. While satire can occasionally cut too deep, with...
by Pavani Kaushik | Oct 2, 2017 | Cover Story
We are taught that anything worth doing must be pursued with single minded devotion. Especially that which is considered a talent. If you find within yourself a trait that instills passion, then you must devote your lifetime to honing it in earnest. Until you master...
