Between Words and Silences: A New Feminist Poetics in Hindi
By Sanchita Khurana Beyond recovering and interpreting contemporary Hindi women poets, An Alchemy of Words and Silences reconfigures feminist
‘Baby Do Die Do’: This Mildly-Ambitious Woman Assassin Film Never Leaves the Slow Track
By Deep Mukherjee The title for Nachiket Samant’s film is at first perplexing. But then, once I saw what they
The NPP’s New Challenge: Balancing Easter Lawfare & Economic Welfare
By Rajan Philips Sri Lanka has long been called a welfare state. Some of the welfare attributes were compromised in
Judicial Independence To Vindicate People’s Mandate
By Jehan Perera Sri Lanka is witnessing the dismantling of the culture of impunity that dominated public life for decades.
Sri Lanka Has Educated Women; Now It Must Make Work Possible
By Nishadi Thennakoon Recently, during a commute in the UK, I noticed something that, at first glance, seemed entirely ordinary.
NGO Bill: Slouching toward totalitarianism?
By Rohan Samarajiva The release of a draft of the Non-Governmental Organisations (Registration and Supervision) Act, L.D.-O. 6/2026, is praiseworthy.
A moment that changed me: I started yoga – and saw my scoliosis in a surprising new light
Iwas 13 when a spinal surgeon gave me unsolicited career advice. “Scoliosis won’t ruin your life,” he said, peering over
The history of the handkerchief
Someone raised the question the other day as to why pocket-handkerchiefs are always square. Pocket handkerchiefs are not always square
The battle of the blouses – 1923
The old blouses of the stiff collar and cuffs would hardly recognise their descendants of to-day with the wide necks,
Clothes without cruelty -1924
Vegetarianism probably means to most people merely the abstention from flesh foods; and it is a fact that the majority