Before the novel, before the newspaper, before the modern essay — there was a queen, a printing press, and a group of writers who decided that English was worth taking […]
A Reading Guide | Look Back in Anger by John Osborne Nearly seventy years have passed since John Osborne’s play premiered at the Royal Court Theatre. The British Empire, which […]
A Reading Guide | Look Back in Anger by John Osborne Near the end of Look Back in Anger, there’s a scene that is simultaneously tender and deeply troubling. Jimmy […]
A Reading Guide | Look Back in Anger by John Osborne Before 1956, if you bought a ticket to the theatre in London, you could expect a certain kind of […]
A Reading Guide | Look Back in Anger by John Osborne Picture this: it’s 1956. The Second World War ended just eleven years ago. Britain fought, won, and came home […]
On Resistance, Shame, and the Politics of the Female Body in “Draupadi” Most stories about sexual violence end with the woman diminished — broken, silent, or dead. The violence is […]
On Power, Knowledge, and the Limits of the Liberal Mind in “Draupadi” Here is a thought experiment. Imagine a professor who spends twenty years studying poverty — reading every book, […]
On Mythology, Memory, and Rewriting in Mahasveta Devi’s “Draupadi” Names carry weight. When a parent names a child, they are usually doing two things at once — marking identity and […]
A Reading Guide to Mahasveta Devi’s “Draupadi” There is a certain kind of story that does not let you put it down after the last page. Not because it is […]
There is a phrase near the centre of Mamang Dai’s poem that rewards the kind of slow, repeated reading that most poems ask for but few receive: “I am the […]
