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Ishaan Arora

Where Do the Fault Lines Lie?

In her modernist retelling of the Mahabharata, Karthika Naïr chooses as the narrators of the epic, characters who in the ‘original’…

Aug 26, 2021

Where Do the Fault Lines Lie?

Aug 26, 2021

The Classic Popular^ or the Popular Classic?: The Proverbial Present Versus the Proverbial Past

^Taken from the eponymous title of Dr Nandini Chandra’s book, The Classic Popular: Amar Chitra Katha 1967–2007.

Aug 26, 2021

The Classic Popular^ or the Popular Classic?: The Proverbial Present Versus the Proverbial Past

Aug 26, 2021

The Woman Who Knew, the Man Who Didn’t: Romantic Relationships in I Want to Destroy Myself and…

Manzoor Ahtesham’s, the tale of the missing man (Dastan-e-Lapata) and Malika Amar Shaikh’s memoir, I Want to Destroy Myself both straddle…

Aug 26, 2021

Aug 26, 2021

Premchand’s Kafan: “no single Dalit point of view”

Published in 1936, Kafan remains one of the most (if not the most) hotly debated short stories Premchand ever produced. The point of…

Aug 26, 2021

Aug 26, 2021

The Fragmented Self in Manzoor Ahtesham’s The Tale of the Missing Man or Dastan-e-Lapata: Where…

Manzoor Ahtesham’s The Tale of the Missing Man focuses in on the trials and tribulations — or perhaps, the lack thereof — of the…

Aug 26, 2021

Three paperback copies of the english translation of Manzoor Ahtesham’s Dastan-e-lapata, on top of a yellow table with a cup partially out of frame in the top left corner

Aug 26, 2021

The Niches within the ‘Masses’: Analysing YouTube as a Popular Platform

The point where Raymond Williams’ Culture is Ordinary and Pierre Bourdieu’s ‘Introduction’ to Distinction: A Social Critique of the…

Aug 20, 2021

Aug 20, 2021

Normalcy is still a mirage

Ishaan Arora in New Delhi portrays the agony of a food seller and the emotional upheaval of a young woman separated from home.

Jun 2, 2021

Jun 2, 2021

Reclaiming Knowledge as Public Good

Elsevier, arguably the largest of five academic publishing houses which together exert a stranglehold on the entirety of their respective…

Feb 18, 2021

Reclaiming Knowledge as Public Good

Feb 18, 2021

Ishaan Arora

Ishaan Arora

Member, All India IT Union @aiiteu BSc Physics, BA Eng from Shiv Nadar Uni MA Sociology at South Asian Uni Dabble in writing abt policy, political economy, tech

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