Disputed & Biased
Her works are based mainly on personal memories. Annie Ernaux (b. September 1, 1940), one of the most popular figures in contemporary French literature who is famous for her autobiographical […]
Presenting ‘Selves’ As ‘Radical Art’
“To me style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and the inside of the human body – both go together, they […]
End Of The Iconoclast
“A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.” – Jean-Luc Godard In his film Breathless (1960), the lead female character, Patricia, […]
The Lost Narratives Of A ‘Desire’
Desiring India: Representations through British and French Eyes 1584-1857, a recently published book, co-edited by Supriya Chaudhuri and Niranjan Goswami, has hit the headlines. It seems that the essence of […]
On A Suicidal Mistake
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has warned that the world is just one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation. Speaking at the UN Conference on the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons in New […]
The Melting Season
The West is getting hotter, with Europe and the US feeling the heat this summer. The mercury has already touched 40 degrees Celsius during daytime in several US cities. The […]
Gruesome Incidents Remembered
It is said that Search Operations, in a massive scale, had been carried out throughout France in order to identify the Jews 80 years ago. On July 16-17, 1942, the […]
Abortion Rights: ‘Set In Stone’
The Supreme Court of the US recently ended the Constitutional Right to Abortion (that had been in place for nearly five decades in a decision by its conservative majority to […]
Complicating His Second Term
Within a couple of months of his re-election as the French President, Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron is facing a political crisis, as his La République En Marche Party (LREM, translated […]
Boundless Ocean Of Politics 