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Approximately twenty-four years ago, I arrived at the house where I currently reside, and subsequently, in the village…
Have you eaten yet? Okay, good. Imagine a fish called a duck Or a paradox swimming along the coast. Even if a dream is impossible to return to, There…
R o a d s i d e P r a y e r Everybody wants to slip into that crooning gap readied in the corners of betel-stained marble…
This essay revisits the Indian “Renaissance” in art and the emergence of Parallel Modernisms in Indian art by examining the artworks of The New Andhra School of Art, a movement…
Chhavi Jain and I first met at the Jaipur Literature Festival in 2018. Back then, she was working with Jaipur BookMark, the business segment of the festival, and I was…
हाकारा । hākārā is an independent bilingual journal published online in Marathi and English. We are happy to collaborate with Ray Media & Films and documentary film director Rahul Narwane…
He didn’t know what it was—this headache. The doctors called it a migraine. He knew it wasn’t. There was unresolved matter inside his head. Memories, thoughts, experiences, ideas, survival skills,…
'परतणं' हा शब्द एखाद्या शांत संध्याकाळीसारखा आहे. त्यात स्मृतीचा उजेड जेवढा प्रखर आहे, तेवढ्याच भूतकाळाच्या सावल्याही गडद आहेत. काही वेळेला परतणं आपल्याला मिश्किल हसू देतं, काही ठिकाणी विचार करायला लावतं,…
हे अंतर सरत का नाही ? 'अजून येतो वास रुळांना, अजून चाके लाल चमकती; रांगत, खुरडत मातीमधुनी अजून मुंग्या भाकर खाती...' मर्ढेकर, तुमच्या कवितेतलं ते ढोर अजूनही मोजत बसलंय अस्मानाचा…
This paper examines the aesthetic and ethical dimensions of ‘return’ through the phenomenon of artificial intelligence (AI)–generated music, focusing on the re-created voice of Kishore Kumar in the rendition of…
There is always a distance between what was and what is, and this distance is often invisible, often unmeasurable. It is where meaning quietly forms, it comes slowly, through the…
Mahesh Baliga, Home, casein on paper, 2014
Her garden that was
In stories of her, she climbs trees, plucks mangoes to toss out many, piquant, some sour. A tiny breed of…