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Ms. Ruchira Gupta’s debut novel, I Kick, and I Fly is not just a story—it is the journey of fourteen-year-old Heera from the de-notified nat community of Bihar, India, who is at risk of being sold by her father, a story that is the… Continue Reading “An Interview with Ruchira Gupta”
Nayantara Maitra Chakravarty One boiling September afternoon Zoya asked her mother why she must wear a hijab to school. It is just a few minutes’ walk. Most students would have left by now. Just a handful of teachers left to accept the final assignments.… Continue Reading “Zoya’s Veil”
An Interview by Nayantara Maitra Chakravarty Jayati Ghosh is one of India’s leading development economists. She is also a strong advocate for feminist economics. Prof Ghosh has been recently awarded the prestigious John Kenneth Galbraith Award for 2023 – previous awardees include Nobel Prize… Continue Reading ““Economists don’t tell you that more women work than men”: Prof. Jayati Ghosh”
Nayantara Maitra Chakravarty The Madras High Court’s recent judgement foregrounding the economic value of domestic work could well become the precedent for future judgements on the property rights of homemakers. This is an issue which I have given thought to since childhood. In fact… Continue Reading “Giving Homemakers their Just Value: Madras High Court’s Landmark Judgment”
Nayantara Maitra Chakravarty Robert Frost had claimed that he wrote Birches with “one stroke of a pen,” however, evidence suggests that he made several attempts to write the poem, and refined it over the years, even after it was first published in 1915. It… Continue Reading “The Shifting Metaphor in Robert Frost’s ‘Birches’”
An Interview by Nayantara Maitra Chakravarty Partha Chatterjee is widely recognised as India’s most important political theorist. His contributions to the theories of nationalism and popular politics are not only taught in universities everywhere, but are also used as a theoretical framework by scholars… Continue Reading “Interrogating Professor Partha Chatterjee”
Nayantara Maitra Chakravarty. (Previously published in Outlook Magazine.) In every country, everywhere, math is held in awe. If you are good at it, then people think you are smart. Physics comes in as a close second. And the two together congeal in that pinnacle… Continue Reading “In Defence of the Humanities”
There is a joke doing the rounds on the internet about Laxman Narasimhan, the freshly-brewed CEO of the global coffee chain Starbucks. In the joke, Narasimhan prohibits anyone from using the name ‘Chai tea latte’ for one of Starbucks’ most popular beverages. As Indians, we… Continue Reading “Indian Culture – What Does it Mean? *”
In the past year or so, I have been asked by many well-wishers to identify my passion. This, I am told, is essential to get into a good college. I must have a story. I must be about something. My life, at 16 years… Continue Reading “My Manifesto”
Late last night, absentmindedly I looked out, as the world went past my car window. A pause at a traffic light. A grubby hand knocked on the glass leaving stains on the pane. I looked through into the distance. The face of the unkempt… Continue Reading “Freedom”
De Omnibus Dubitandum 