Paromita Chakrabarti

Representation matters; visibility matters; the slow accumulation of presence matters. But it must be read as an opening move in a much longer negotiation

Top-down affirmative action is crucial but the language of welfare is now saturated with this metaphor of bestowal. It avers over and over again that women’s foregrounding is contingent on the right government, the right man, the right moment of political generosity

A decade since its reinvention, the award has worked to give translators, independent publishers a seat at the global table

Persepolis author took world inside post-revolution Iran, amplified sorrows, demands of its women

Homemakers need social infrastructure that eases the burden of care work, shares it more equitably, and values it more fully

The story of Kolkata’s hawkers goes back to successive waves of displacement that reshaped the city in the mid-20th century. The Bengal famine of 1943 and Partition in 1947 brought thousands of impoverished migrants and refugees to a city ill-equipped to absorb them.

The story of Kolkata’s hawkers goes back to successive waves of displacement that reshaped the city in the mid-20th century. The Bengal famine of 1943 and Partition in 1947 brought thousands of impoverished migrants and refugees to a city ill-equipped to absorb them.

Land is a novel sparked by the discovery that O’Farrell’s great-great grandfather was an Irish cartographer

The distance between Ishar's lifelong devotion and the horror that unfolded at Lohagad may appear impossible to bridge, yet both stories illuminate the same unsettling truth — love is shaped as much by the freedoms it is denied as by the emotions it inspires

The greatest epics hold out because they throw up new questions for every generation, even as they refuse to settle into a singular interpretation. But Nolan’s film is the story of an uncomplicated man