Deepika Rai

The Cultural Legacy of Butterflies in the Himalayas Long before science trained its lens on butterflies, these winged wonders...

Found Objects in Artistic Practice There’s a quiet ritual many artists follow: collecting small, ordinary things that others might...

Growing up in Shimla, Winter meant a long-awaited journey to our ancestral home in Punjab. After school closed, we...

Introduction: Maya’s Transgender Journey in India Reading about Maya, a young woman in her early twenties, instantly struck a...

The Unseen Impact of Living with Difficult Personalities Living with difficult personalities doesn’t always mean dealing with obvious abuse....

The George Orwell Legacy Still Matters The George Orwell legacy continues to influence how we understand power, freedom, and...

Unseen caregivers exist in every community. You might not notice them, but they are there—quietly holding lives together. These...

The choreography of public space is never neutral — we are all waiting, watching, and being watched

I have been the subject. Not on a gallery wall, perhaps, but in the silent gaze of strangers, in...

Amrita Pritam is one of the most important figures in the oeuvre of Indian literature. She was born Amarit...