पृष्ठ 54 – हाकारा । hākārā

When Dots Sparkle: Sarita Chouhan

Lines delicate and flowingIntersectingMeeting at pointsThen moving againNothing is random.In the map of memoryJoin the dotsSome dots sparkleConnections appear…Stories told, untoldImaginary, realClear or blurred.Stories are manySome are saidNot in many…

Maintenant: Peter Briggs

Maintenant, one of the possible translations of ‘Now’ in French, from main, hand and tenir, grasp or hold, fits perfectly into the world of sculpture, speaking as it does of the tactile…

Ugly Histories: Shrenik Mutha

a surveyor/ accountant/ writer/ rewriter/ listener/ observer of ugly histories- a poem as an act of writing a past story, not a (his)tory “our families have ugly histories”, a friend…

Scarlet: Maitra

Failed and prolonged situationsOne day we say ‘no more!’and stop in our livesIt’s strange, how we livebetween two extremes of emotionsWe are moving onWe have kept moving on I am alone…

Present(ing) History’s Specters: Rashmi Sawhney

One of the key aides of time-study — if there ever was such a thing — is the camera, which separated the soul of time from its body. For many…

‘बोलावे ते आम्ही…’ : कवितेतील भू-दृश्ये आणि नाटकीयता : आशुतोष पोतदार

जग नाटकीयतेने व्यापलेलं असतं. कलाकार आपापल्या तऱ्हेने जग नाटकीय बनवत असतात. काळ, अवकाश, शरीर आणि श्रोते / दर्शक/ प्रेक्षक अशा घटकांनी नाटकीयता व्यापलेला असते. यामधले सादर करणारा/रे आणि श्रोता/प्रेक्षक नाटकाच्या…

आमचे अण्णा : अविष्कार रविंद्र

आमचे म्हणजे ह्याचे. जो हे जे वाचतोय त्याचे. तो अण्णावर प्रेम करायचा प्रचंड. अण्णा सध्यस्थितीत ८५ वर्षांचे. गोष्ट सुरू होईल तेव्हा त्यांचं वय ‘नुकतं’च. सुरूवातीपासून सुरू करू. नुकती ‘सुरूवात‘ – अण्णा…

Nature Diary: Eva Bubla

Now. Simple it may sound but how complex it is. We may think of Now as a point in the linear course of time. However, the question would emerge if…

Porous Walls: Prajakta Potnis

For a while now I have been working on a series of photographs where the frozen still image is essentially a residue of an extensive process of meticulous constructions. An…