The motives that underlie the reason for secrecy may be many: a simple jest, an attempt to conceal one’s guilt, an escape mechanism, or an attempt to wield power over…
Concealing Caste Identity: An Intersectional Reading of Yashica Dutt’s Coming Out as Dalit
Introduction “What if others find out?” Hiding a fact or lying to oneself or even to others…
Covert Operations: Acts of Secrecy and Homosexual Identity
Eye, Eye, I, I by Lee Campbell Drawing pins and mixed media on canvas (2000)
In the introduction to the catalogue of the…
I fell into the habit of keeping secrets even before I knew what a secret was. I think I must have been around 5 or 6 years of age when…
Manbhumi Jhumur: A form of Cultural Counter-Narrative
Introduction Speaking of music as a political language, Robbie Liebermann says that songs offer “internal cohesion” for various groups “by reaffirming beliefs, building…
प्रत्येक व्यक्तीचे जीवन हे तीन प्रकारात मोडते. एक – सार्वजनिक. दोन – खाजगी. आणि तीन – गुप्त. गुपित ठेवण्याचा अर्थ म्हणजे केवळ एखादी माहिती स्वतःपूर्ती मर्यादित ठेवणे एवढाच नसून तर…
महामारी सुरु होऊन चार महिने झालेत. गेले दोन महिने झाले तू झोपून आहेस. कॅलेंडरप्रमाणे हिवाळा ऋतू आहे पण कडकडीत उन्हाळाच सुरु असल्यासारखं वाटतय. पक्षी कर्कश्य आवाजात ओरडत राहतात. तुला जाग…
Not so long ago, I inherited a small box of photographs, albums, travel books and maps from my father; things, as he aged, he no longer wanted to be responsible…
My diary is seldom an object of debate. But it finally became so, yesterday. That person Yashrāj, you know? Yes, yes, the same guy! Lives in that gully. No, no,…
For Ummachi.
Thodakkam (The beginning):
1. naming (Ay Meri Zohra Zabeen!) If you are a Syrian Christian in Kerala, your grandmother is Ammachi; if you are a Hindu, she is…
बर्फात लोळणारे गरगरीत पोटाचे पांडा, अचंबित करणारे भव्य दिव्य देव मासे, हिमरंगी केसांची दुलई ओढलेले अंटार्क्टिकामधली अस्वले असे अनेक प्राणी आपल्या आभासी भवतालचे आणि पर्यायाने आपल्या अंतरंगाचे भाग झाले आहेत.…
Journey as an artistic trope has often been used with brilliant effect by many stalwarts in the world of literature and cinema. One is reminded of literary classics like Around…