Ruins and Shelters
“All of us lived in fear of the eminent bombing from America for a number of years, but exploring bomb shelters still became our favourite pastime.” Nellie Barg remembers her childhood in post-WWII Kiev.
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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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The Everyday and the Absurd
“Both Verkaaik and Ring look at ethnic violence from around the political lens, rather than directly through it.” Nabeeha Chaudhary looks at two academic texts on the subtleties of ethnic conflict in Pakistan.
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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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Caught Between Kentucky and Her Mind
““Who do you think took them?†I ask and lean in towards her. She assures me that theft played no role in it, because to say so would implicate Augustana, a Christian institution, in allowing sin to occur on its watch.” Inna Viktorovna makes a strange connection with a 98-year-old woman.
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