Anu–baad, Translation

Aadrit

content note for sexual violence . My grandmother sits on the verandah, her legs spread

Mirror

Sakshi Nain Bishnoi

I had imagined a tiny miracle: my mother, sitting cross-legged on the charpai, the fan

The Oppressor’s Tongue

Soniya Pondcar

“Aapke paas paanch-das minute ka time hai kya? Mujhe Sassoon Dock ke baare mein jaankaari

A Caseworker’s Diary of Hope and Delusion

Kalpita Wadher

I recently witnessed the birth of my niece. Her first look made me believe that

Traditions of the Tongue, Translating a Lepcha Folk Song ‘Mutanchi Lungten’

Lungmying Lepcha

My sister’s favourite Lepcha song is not any of the current, modern songs ruling the

The Presence of your Absence: Grieving as Translation

Anuradha Banerji

There is a story—part musicology, part myth—that Johann Sebastian Bach wrote the Chaconne, the monumental

My Mother’s Everyday Acts of Resistance and Radical Friendships

Sneha Shetty

Pramila Shetty, a.k.a. Pamu, my mother, started cooking at an early age as a daily

The Taste of a Word You Cannot Say

Aishwarya Roy

Whether for the love of the story, or because of a colonial hangover we have

The Crow at the Beach

Roa'a Eid

“All Activists on the Freedom Flotilla have been Abducted by Israel” There is a crow

The Dictionary of My Father’s Violence

Addhaya Anil

I never learned to grieve for my father. That language was perpetually distant to me.

Whose Language Is This?

Gunn Bhargava

छोरी चली परदेस, मायका सुना हो गया, आंगन की कोयल भी चुप, गीत अधूरा हो

Threading Identities

Anum Sanaullah

Thread by thread, the intricate art of embroidery in Baloch society unfolds a profound language

Unlearning Language, and Other Inheritances…

Deepannita Misra

Sometimes, I wonder if my grandmother still speaks to me. In 2022, the woman I

Coded: Power, Impurity and Language in the Menstruation Conversation

Farah Ahamed

The language used to talk about menstruation is rarely neutral. Across cultures, fiction, law, and

Walls that Scream and Whisper

Khushbu Sharma

“Walls are publishers of the poor!” – this famous line by Eduardo Galeano, an Uruguayan

A Writing Women Group Reading of ‘Homeless: Growing Up Lesbian and Dyslexic in India’ by K. Vaishali

Sangeetha Bhaskaran, Shahana Raza, Sarah Khan, Vijaya Chikermane

Lovers of book clubs will know that the act of reading together makes for a

Even Breath is a Translation

Vijaya Chikermane

Inviting stories in creative nonfiction that explore the subject of translation, in and beyond language.

Understanding Indian Post-Colonial Identity Through Reading Habits

Amritesh Mukherjee

Let’s travel to the India of the 1950s, a country redefining itself in the wake

Testimonies of Women at the anti BT Act 1949 protest, Bodh Gaya.

Aishwarya AVRaj

The protest against the Bodh Gaya Temple Act of 1949 continues at the Domuhan grounds,

“This Land We Call Home” Exhumes the Personal and Elevates the Political

Saurabh Sharma

The protagonist Saleem Sinai’s fate in Salman Rushdie’s Booker Prize-winning novel Midnight’s Children (Jonathan Cape,

A letter of Complaint, A Letter of Resistance

Gurpreet Kaur

I write a letter, not to a person, place, thing. But a letter to a

‘Teslam Eedek’

Roa'a Eid

I do not remember the first time I said ‘teslam eedek’ to my mother. It

Architects of Joy, Over and Over Again

Maryam Fatima

My mother and her sisters were born at a table where harm was never too

A Graduate’s Denial

Vaishnavi Manju Pal

Some people graduate once in a generation. My oldest memories are of seeing a room

Migrant Women and Freedom

Akankasha Choudhary

Jyoti used to live in Gagodhar, a small village in the Ujjain district of Madhya

Tired Mother and Technology

Fouziya Tehzeeb

The picture of a standing mother in a kitchen is ubiquitous. From dawn till beyond

Disquiet of the Labouring Body

Tanyaa Sharma

I After a night’s sleep intermittently interrupted by sharp, penetrative period cramps, announcing the arrival

Keepers of the Womb

Aditi Dasgupta

Hey, It has taken me months to pen this down—a letter I suppose I’m writing

Recording Resistance: How Domestic Workers Use TikTok to Challenge Precarity in the Gulf

Aditi Verma

The machinery of our global capitalist economy is designed to exploit caregiving and domestic labor,

Friendship and the Kitchen; Three Women and their Quest for Space

Tinaz Nawaz

Seeing my mother hate the kitchen and my aunt love it, I was very confused.

Press(ing)work: The Labor Economics of Feminist Small Press Publishing in the Philippines

Faye Cura

Gantala Press, a Filipino women’s press that I founded while employed in a private library,

In Begumpura, their bodies shall find rest.