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Manto’s ‘Top, Under and In Between’ and a giggleI came across the translation of Saadat Hasan Manto’s ‘Upar, Neeche aur Darmiyaan’ (Top, Under and In Between) today. The story, among many…Jan 15, 2024Jan 15, 2024
The attack against ‘Annapoorani’: Another reaction to the “enemy”’s actionsVarun Grover is nearly at the end of his latest comedy tour he calls “Nothing Makes Sense”. I watched him perform this set last year in…Jan 12, 2024Jan 12, 2024
On Supreme Court’s decision in Bilkis Bano case: The meaning of ‘ordinary’Azar Nafisi, in Read Dangerously (2022), voiced her fear about extraordinary, incredible, and shocking events turning ‘ordinary’ over a…Jan 10, 2024Jan 10, 2024
The cover of Subimal Misra’s ‘Anti-Novels’: I am sorry I am middle classOn 8 February 2023, Subimal Misra died. I didn’t know who he was when he died. I still don’t know who he was now. All I know is I have been…Jan 9, 2024Jan 9, 2024
Nazi ‘Essential work’: No Blauschein for literature and historyIn a scene in Thomas Keneally’s ‘Schindler’s Ark’, a professor while waiting for a Blauschein — a blue card that declares what you do is…Jan 8, 2024Jan 8, 2024
