Month January 2025

What is it that ‘Varanasi’ veils? Depth? Varanasi – the modern cocktail of religion and capital! What is it that the Monotheism of Varanasi veils? Multiplicity? Does it veil the maternal polytheism, the pagan pluralism of faith? Running through the…

What is it to paint the planet? And not pass a dagger through the body of the planet? Not mine – with a long spear. Not make her mine. Mine and ‘make mine’. In a possessive masculine territoriality. Hitherto, we…

Tagore distinguishes between the ‘desire for tea’ which the British have engendered in the Indian and the ‘need for water’ that the Indian pallisomaj has felt all along and has struggled to make (un)available over a thousand years (while Tagore…