Features
THE FEATURED ARTICLES
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Books: Notes on Pandemic Reading and Writing
December 2021 -
Bharti Kirchner spoke to other notable authors for insights on reading and writing.
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Film Review: A Sweet and Spicy Treat
December 2021 -
Well-crafted and authentic, India Sweets and Spices debunks—in the best possible way—the model minority myth of the Indian diaspora.
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Flash Fiction: The Unseen Hand
December 2021 -
A young Indian joins an Irish hospital as a junior resident. It’s lonely in Belfast, where the cold weather stings, as do the high prices. Will the fellow expats she meets bring comfort?
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IndiaScope: The Year of Changing Fortunes
December 2021 -
It’s been an unpredictable 2021—up one month, down another, says TINAZ PAVRI.
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Screen Time: Malayalam Cinema Raises the Bar
December 2021 -
In a year of rich offerings from Mollywood, nobody has been more creative and productive than the actor Fahadh Faasil, dubbed Fa Fa by hardcore fans.
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Voices: The Sanction of a Man
December 2021 -
A woman’s ordeal with patriarchy—from day-to-day matters to life’s milestone events such as getting married.
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Food & Dining: Festive halwas to light up any holiday table
December 2021 -
The end of the year is a culinary celebration. With so many holidays at the forefront, what’s a better way to celebrate than to make homemade halwa?
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Arts: Ghoomar: Colorful Pinwheels of Joy
November 2021 -
This dance form’s trance-like enchantment is a doorway to celestial realms.
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Books: Manto, the King of Kahani
November 2021 -
Few fiction writers have captured the trauma of India’s partition as powerfully as Saadat Hasan Manto, called “the undisputed master of the modern Indian short story” by Salman Rushdie. The Dog of Tithwal is a notable and wide-ranging collection of Manto’s stories.
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Monsoon of Memories: The curious case of the doorbell
November 2021 -
My love-hate relationship with the daily gongs that started early in the morning and punctuated the day till nightfall. One never knew what each new ring meant.
