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Revenge of the Scribes — by Amir Sultan

Revenge of the Scribes — by Amir Sultan

Amir Sultan presents one of the most powerful and necessary commentaries regarding the state of journalism in India and across the world. Amir’s unsparing diagnosis of contemporary Indian journalism problematizes its descent into a state of accommodation. The writer relies on examples from Mashaal,
Amir Sultan 06 Feb 2026
Meditating Love: In Search of a Middle Ground — An Essay by Fariz Gulzar Mir

Meditating Love: In Search of a Middle Ground — An Essay by Fariz Gulzar Mir

In this essay, Fariz Gulzar Mir brings forth a philosophical inquiry into the nature of the “complex phenomenon” that is love by considering its metaphysical and pragmatic dimensions. Through a variety of citations and references, the author engages with Ibn Arabi’s ontological take on wahdat al-wuj
Fariz Gulzar Mir 18 Oct 2025
Absurdist in Love — An Essay by Amir Sultan

Absurdist in Love — An Essay by Amir Sultan

Amir Sultan’s essay explores the perhaps coincidental encounter or clash between absurdism and love, bringing into question whether the universe’s inherent indifference aligns with the profoundly personal and often irrational character of romantic attachment. Through a timely engagement with Albert
Amir Sultan 05 Jun 2025
Rodolfo Walsh's 1977 Open Letter to the Military Junta in Argentina — Introduced and Translated by Arturo Desimone

Rodolfo Walsh's 1977 Open Letter to the Military Junta in Argentina — Introduced and Translated by Arturo Desimone

Written on March 24, 1977 in Buenos Aires, this letter "can be useful to readers to reflect on the new despotisms." This letter and the attached piece were originally published by Arturo Desimone on December 6, 2016, under the title of "Reading the Argentinian resistance writer Rodolfo Walsh in the
From the Editor's Desk 20 Jan 2022
Wandering Through the Alleys and Making Sense of Central and West Asian Remnants in Srinagar — by Subhajit Pal

Wandering Through the Alleys and Making Sense of Central and West Asian Remnants in Srinagar — by Subhajit Pal

Relying on research and interview material gathered during his stay in Srinagar, Subhajit Pal discusses Kashmir’s historical connection to Central and West Asia as it manifests in contemporary times.
Subhajit Pal 20 Dec 2021
Home Archaeology — by Rela Mazali

Home Archaeology — by Rela Mazali

A Jewish activist woman from Israel conducts an "archaeological dig" into her immediate physical surroundings and the sites of her successive homes. It recounts her slow unlearning of Zionist erasures both of the dispossession of Palestinians previously living at these sites and of the discriminatio
Rela Mazali 15 May 2021
Jaun Elia: The Garbage Dump of History — Translated and Introduced by Muzaffar Karim

Jaun Elia: The Garbage Dump of History — Translated and Introduced by Muzaffar Karim

Academic and writer Muzaffar Karim translates and introduces Jaun Elia’s “The Garbage Dump of History,” a piece originally titled “Jannat Jahanam” in Urdu that appeared in Suspense Digest (July 2000). Karim’s introduction and subsequent translation situate international readers beyond Elia’s widely
Muzaffar Karim 15 Nov 2020

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