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The Fascinating Triumph of Rakesh Belal
I bet you’ve seen Rakesh Belal. He is ubiquitous. An 18-year-old dropout, the sort found in trackpants and a fake Nike t-shirt outside shantytown video parlours and ramshackle gyms anywhere across the...
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Mother
Have you ever guzzled the last drop of alcohol and raped your mother? This is what we do when we read the morning news about a woman’s rape and sip our tea leisurely. © 2006 Dan Husain
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A Kingdom of Crabs…
A kingdom of crabs ascends here on stones heavy enough to sink our faith if we tie it to them. But a mile away from this promenade my friend sucking a succulent crab leg quips, the only way to pin...
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Before We Tape Our Mouths Forever…
It’s always better to begin with a caveat. Sets the tone, and prepares readers for what not to expect. I am one of those self-obsessed people who seldom see beyond their existence. I google my name...
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Dastan-e-Sedition Banaam Hakim Sen
Dastangoi performed by Mahmood Farooqui and Danish Husain as part of Justice on Trial for the Free Binayak Sen Campaign, at the Alliance Francaise de Delhi on 6 April 2011. Video credit: Nicky Chandam....
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An Actor’s Journey from Text to Performance
Whenever I begin preparing for a new performance words sit heavy in front of me as boulders. Alien, unknown boulders. I look up and I see them littered till wherever my eyes can see. I do not know...
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Few Hearts to Live for
Photographs by Amruta Mehta Just when Shantuben held her meditative poise at a Vipassana camp at Igatpuri on the morning of January 26, 2001, her dream turned to rubble back home in Bhuj. When she...
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At the Bend
Right here at the bend Of the line you just read The line read above Or imagined you read At the bend of that line The line you read above (You scroll up the memory Which line, which line it could be)...
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The Poet, His Poems and His Tales
After a decade without a day job, and associating with Dastangoi for over six years, I can safely say that I am a career storyteller. And one of the things I have learned is that resumes don’t make a...
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In Solidarity with Oprah
I recently read a scathing article on Oprah Winfrey. I was quite shocked. The journalist made such fuss about her honest observations as if it’s criminal to not know something. However, what were more...
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Memory: An Act of Forgetting
Memory: An Act of Forgetting Right now, just like that I let a memory of you Slip through my sleeve And drop, plop, on the floor. It had sniveled Sniveled long Long up my sleeve! Really? How did you do...
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How not to think about violence against women: Noopur Tiwari
Guest post by NOOPUR TIWARI I woke up in Paris last weekend to the news of the Delhi protests. I felt relieved. People are not just watching or suffering quietly anymore, I thought to myself. I wanted...
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In Memory of a Puppy/ Ek Pillay Ki Yaad Mein
میرے تخیل کے پہیے کے نیچے آ گیا ہے آپ کی نفرتوں کا پللا اور پھر مجھے پاکھنڈ کی بھی ضرورت نہیں کہ مجھے افسوس ہے (Mere takkhiyul ke pahiye ke neeche Aa gaya hai aap ki nafraton ka pilla Aur phir mujhe...
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Securing Justice for Rape Survivors from Kashmir and Northeast is An...
Guest Post by AYESHA PERVEZ The events preceding the recent death sentence awarded to the rapists of December 16th Delhi gang rape case from 2012 have certainly broadened the canvas of discourse on...
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