Sustainability is an oxymoron, even professionals vaguely understand it as quote a definition from 1987 Brundtland Report. Sustainable development is … More
Month: May 2017
Suzanna Roy: The Perils of Success
There is a literal cottage industry to undercut Suzanna Roy from critics, creative writing professors to her ideological adversaries. She … More
Ramadan Kareem
The solace of the Magrib prayer, next door The smell of the tandoor for the elaborate Iftaar The city-region coils into … More
JNU: Site of Opposition?
JNU VC has an incredible cv, a soft spoken engineering educator (watch the interview with Anuradha Sen Gupta on Off … More
Arundhati Roy: The Public Intellectual’s Arguments
Arundhati Roy has her own seminar circuit audience in left liberal circles globally. She has a good livelihood from the … More
Conversation with a Journalist Power Couple in Oman
Practising Journalists need to speak to J School Academics in India. We are a generation which questions barely and shouts … More
Ambition : A Spoken Word Poem
Ambition smoulders everything in its vicinity akin to fireFire is often the epistemological crutch for purification and progress Wisdom and … More
Migrant Diaries: Muscat Field Notes
Cities of the Gulf are made by migrants over the past fifty years. More than three generations have grown up … More
Air Travel as contested sites of emotion
Airports are melting pots of aspirations, compulsions and an embodiment of ‘the journey’. Budget carriers are status symbols of ‘we … More
Personal Libraries
Libraries are like personal collections, take eons of all matter of resources to curate an exhibition. Rather, the functional transforms … More