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All of us know Vishal Bhardwaj as a film-maker whose films have consistently pushed the envelope and as a composer who has churned out some of the biggest chart-toppers in recent years. Here’s presenting him in a new avatar: a poet. Over the course of these twenty-five Ghazals and an equal number of Nazms, Vishal comes across as a poet with a distinctive voice and a style all his own. Whether it is a romantic ode pulsating with an intense passion or ...
The Discipline of "Women's Studies" has yet to establish firm roots in Indian academia. What causes an apparent mismatch between a recognised need to systematize an approach to social development and the actualisation of that need in pedagogical practice? In the context of Indian universities in particular, such queries are crucial. To advocate its strengths, Women'sStudies needs the mechanisms of institutionalisation. Materials production is a ...
The subcontinent was divided decades ago. But Partition's harvest of pain, violence and trauma continues to haunt us even today. In literature, as in life, its spectre rises time and again from the ashes of 1947, igniting memory as it locates itself in communal tension and rioting crowds. Metaphors and fictive narratives grapple with the human indulgence in bestial violence and navigate through varied psychological and emotional terrain. ...