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Summers are a bowl full of nostalgia. What starts with raw mango pickles and tangy curries slowly turns sunshine yellow of the Alphonso. In the middle come the cashews, jamuns (black plum) and karvands (black currants). The season, maturing with the jackfruit, leading to more intensive recipes. The days of abandon spent wolfing down mangoes.…

Art may not change the world, but it can, at the very least, provoke dynamic conversations The sixth edition of the Kochi Biennale does what it promises — it makes you question your own privilege, majoritarian politics, labour practices, colonial histories and more. There were moments when we wondered if some exhibits would have been…

We don’t like to dwell on death, but it leaves visible and invisible marks on our lives. In Notes on Burials, Jayant Kashyap digs deep, exploring rituals and omens that mark death and its immediate aftermath – body and soul. The winner of the Poetry Business New Poets Prize 2024, the volume leaves you to dwell on…

It’s almost time to pack up and burn the old year. We’ve been thinking about a few words we read online the other day. It said: “I don’t want a new year this time, I want a gently used year.” We could use a gently used year, a simpler one where we were naive about…







