LU Chronicles
There is a peculiar Indianism , and, if one looks broadly enough, a globalism , to the way we manage the subject of sex: not by absence so much as by theatrical abstention. Sex is performed, packaged, policed, advertised, litigated, and monetized; but it is not, with any seriousness, discussed […]
In The New Yorker, Robert Samuels wrote, “I had envisioned book bans as modern morality plays, but the reality was far more complicated.” And it is. ’Cause what exactly are we protecting people from by banning books?  When a government obsessed with optics is still afraid of paperbacks, one is […]
In Lucknow, the sounds that mark a life are ordinary: the cycle bell at dawn, the sputtering of an auto in traffic that refuses to move, the azaan threading through loudspeakers at dusk. For me, the one sound missing for about two decades of being born and raised in this […]