Tabish Khair
Author is an Indian novelist, poet and essayist, currently working as an associate professor at Aarhus University, Denmark.
By Tabish Khair
Like Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray, you all are prisoners of your own beautiful narratives, your perceptions of your perfection. This is harming you. And us. We need to look away.
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The US ‘condemning’ Pulwama is not enough. Given a range of complex new threats, India needs to keep its eyes, and its options, open.
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The 'cowboy of industrial capitalism', coal evokes a time when workers actually mattered. But for all of Trump's promises on bringing back those days, he has only helped finance capitalism get stronger.
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The writer as a public figure is now seen as a performer for the crowds.
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Literature has never been only about getting to your destination.
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One of the worst crimes parents are capable of is depriving their little ones of their inherent sense of excitement at being alive.
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Our authorities need to select sports and games in which money can go a long way.
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In 'The Gene: An Intimate History', the Pulitzer-winning author traces the tale of the gene from an obscure abbey in Moravia in 1856 to the present times.
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If The Supreme is needed to be 'justified' in literature, it could also critique, deny and even replace Him.
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The ideologues of today cannot even come close to matching the Mahatma's humanity, political foresight and moral courage.
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