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A Poetic High

Neha M

Spoken-word poetry is gaining a festive momentum in India

Mise-en-Cuisine

Eating scenes in films embody conflict or cooperation between the characters, inform or assign an individual or family’s place in society

Reading Tea Leaves

If diversity and pluralism is at the core of Indian gastronomic culture, tea is the defining symbol of British identity

A Passage to Unfreedom

Censorship in liberal democracies has shifted from policing the entire terrain of representation to policing boundaries

Achyut Lahkar: The Mobile Revolutionary

Achyut Lahkar who died recently will be remembered for creating plays that smelt of Assam and which brought the magic of cinema onto the stage

The Name of the Rose

Colour, class and tradition in a vase. The meditations of a flower girl

When Elie Saab Goes Desi

At what point does fashion go from inspiration to cultural appropriation?

The Tiñosas Over Havana

Without pressure but without pause. That is the slogan of change in Cuba today

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