On the multi-storeyed tower with no staircase and no entrance
"What I wanted to say about the global dimension of caste was to look at it from the subjectivity of its victim. So Dalit as a subject takes a central place in this text, and this Dalit subjectivity t...
20 Marras 20251h 5min
Things that go bump...
"Some call them ghosts but I look at them more as energies that coexist with us. In many ways, like the Buddhist and other Indian philosophies say, we are on a continuum of Time and many souls can go ...
14 Marras 20251h 2min
Going with the mighty flow
"We travel on the river but the real traveller is the river, and to understand it one has to make a substantial effort" - Sanjoy Hazarika, author, River Traveller; Journeys on the Tsangpo-Brahmaputra ...
6 Marras 202553min
Fraud, fear and loathing from Jamtara to Sihanoukville
"I wanted to use fraud as a way to look at our society today. We have a fraud underworld industry that employs multitudes. If you have such a large number of people who will readily go over to the eth...
30 Loka 202550min
The ache of a phantom limb
"I have my own history. I was evicted from Kashmir like many thousands of others. But when I went to Bastar and when I looked at other conflicts and what it was doing to other people, my own misery fa...
23 Loka 202552min
Grip of a godman
"In India, we don't use the word 'cult' but the photo of a godman hangs in every other home and it's all placed under the umbrella of culture. Cults go after the most vulnerable, those who are not thi...
17 Loka 20251h 2min
Stories from the Seven Sisters+1
"Life is uncertain, which many of us tend to forget, and there are many things we can't explain; for those things that are inexplicable, we have stories. I was born into conflict, and growing up in Sh...
10 Loka 202557min
On the record
"I was picked to cover Punjab in 1984 and that's how my journey began. After that, I was sucked into the lives of people living with everyday violence. For me, it was about being a storyteller and abo...
3 Loka 20251h 9min
