Arunava Sinha

Jan 1, 2025 | scroll.in | Arunava Sinha

The worst thing about social media platform algorithms can also be the best thing about it. Provided you can successfully lead it up the garden path by refusing to be distracted by reels featuring cats, golden retrievers, hilarious violence inflicted on humans by animals and/or urban monuments, and, if truth must be told, underwear colour.

Oct 19, 2024 | purplepencilproject.com | Manoranjan Byapari |Arunava Sinha

Indian literature, while vast, often remains limited in the mainstream. Outside the handful of classics and Booker-winning titles, the vast reservoir of stories and voices frequently are deprived of the spotlight. Here’s an attempt at change. Our list of books from the literature of India travels across languages, periods, voices and styles to bring a diverse set of books to read and use as a tipping point to go into several rabbit holes.

Feb 19, 2024 | fivebooks.com | Manoranjan Byapari |Arunava Sinha

As the world's biggest democracy, India could be an inspiring example of how a multiethnic, multilingual country with many different religions can come together to form a vibrant state with equality enshrined in its constitution. But all that is in danger of going down the drain, as the country transforms into a brutally exclusionary Hindu-supremacist state under the leadership of Narendra Modi, says Kapil Komireddi, essayist and author of Malevolent Republic: A Short History of the New India.

Jan 21, 2024 | ruralindiaonline.org | Arunava Sinha

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Nov 12, 2023 | scroll.in | Arunava Sinha

Perumal Murugan’s Fire Bird, translated from the Tamil by Janani Kannan does not stop at land as a literal source of life and death; rather, it carves avenues for extended explorations of belonging and longing, of land as not just acres of yield but ground on which to find your feet. Murugan uses farming as a pivot from which to tell different stories not only about the tangled relations between people and land but also about how ties between people are routed through space.