Cover Stories

The Power of Hunger

Madhavankutty Pillai

The weaponisation of fasting

Train of Thought

Lhendup G Bhutia

Reliving a rail journey through the freedom struggle

Simple Simplicity

Nandini Nair

The aesthetics of the austere

The Ultimate Male Model

Kaveree Bamzai

The anatomy of a pop culture icon

In a historic show of solidarity, a group of nuns in Kerala has forced the church and the state to finally act against a bishop who had allegedly raped one of them. V Shoba in Kochi listens to the sisters who dared

A Prayer for My Sister

KR Meera

She lives in a cloistered world of silence and submission. Endurance is her supreme prayer. She is out there on the street today, demanding justice for the one who has allegedly been raped by a bishop. Pitted against a patriarchal church and an indifferent state, a nun’s life is a lone battle. And it all returns to her body