Phatty Girl
“In Trinidad, women want bigger breasts, bigger butts and stomachs that ripple with the slightest movement.” LaTroya Lovell comes to terms with her desire to be fat.
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Do English-language-fluent Immigrants Face a Glass Ceiling? : Part II of II
“In Asia alone, there live 4.4 billion of the world’s 7.3 billion people. But when top-notch recruitment firms in the West claim they found a new multimillion pay-packet CEO after a “global†search, just how global was it?” Vinay Kolhatkar continues his investigation into the prejudice against foreigners in the Western working world.
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Do English-language-fluent Immigrants Face a Glass Ceiling? : Part I of II
“…the glass-ceiling bias impeding immigrants is manifested in a bias against those speaking with non-native accents, the strongest signal of immigrant status — detected quickly and apparent almost continuously.” Vinay Kolhatkar investigates the glass ceiling for immigrants in English-speaking countries.
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In Remembrance of The Slave: Part II of II
“It is an erroneous, and often tragic, colonial fantasy to perceive Africans as vague and abject creatures plucked from wild, virgin territory for the benefit of culture, civilisation and the formation of identifiable consciousness.” Part two of Sanya Osha’s look into slavery’s forgotten history.
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In Remembrance of the Slave: Part I of II
“The economies of Great Britain, the Netherlands, Portugal and France would not be what they are presently without the transatlantic slave trade.” Sanya Osha looks at the history of the African slave trade and what it means today.
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Vegetarian Meat
“Evidently, getting to like vegetarian meat is a matter of acquired taste and it’s a dish probably not for the faint-hearted.” Chitralekha Basu looks into the origins of an oxymoron in Calcutta.
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Kingship versus Kinship: Part II
“Nizam is just as homeless and out of place in the American’s valley as Antigone is in Thebes when it is reduced to Creon’s state of exception.” Part two of Peter Krause’s essay analysing Sophocles’ ‘Antigone’ and Joydeep Roy-Bhattachary’s ‘The Watch’.
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Kingship versus Kinship: Part I
“It is wholly appropriate that a contemporary, post-9/11 retelling of Sophocles’ story be set in the context of a recent war…” Peter Krause talks about the relevance of the Antigone story in Roy-Bhattacharya’s ‘The Watch’.
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Brass Pounder
“He never smiles. This is true of all later photographs. With autobiographical writings, they suggest a serious, even brooding temperament.” Robert Boucheron’s short biography of his grandfather’s life as an early telegraph operator.
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White Death Cocoon
“I couldn’t save him and I couldn’t care for him either. HIV took both options away from me.” Denzel Xavier Scott pieces together a memory that will stay with him forever.
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