In recent times, global attention has returned to strategic maritime chokepoints such as the Strait of Hormuz, where countries like the USA and other powerful nations demonstrate their blue-water naval strength by imposing blockades on enemy shipping routes. Whenever we see such news, we naturally wonder about whether the Indian […]
Recent Issues
Heteronormativity as a Historical and Social System
The claim that heterosexuality is “natural,” this essay argues, persists not because it is self-evident, but because it is continually reproduced as such. What often appears as common sense – that men and women are inherently different, that they are naturally drawn to each other, and that society is organized […]
Would I Go Back?
There are, to me, two kinds of speculative readers: those who are driven by plot, and those who are driven by character. The distinction is not absolute; both elements exist in any meaningful story, but most of us lean instinctively toward one. I find myself, almost stubbornly, on the side […]



