Month January 2025

The Death of Depth

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…

Painting the Planet with Chinhari

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…

স্বদেশী সমাজ (swadeshi somaj)

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…