Sitemap - 2023 - Daak

All the Colours in the World: A.K. Ramanujan’s Journal Entry on His Mescalin Experience

Christmas Special: The Art of Sister Claire SMMI

An Escape From the Trappings of the World: Meena Kumari’s Poem, Chalo

The Travails of a Secret Love: Dom Moraes' Poem, The Garden

Gul Moher by Hari Ambadas Gade and Oonchai by Kedarnath Singh

The Stripping of Self: Kamala Das’ Autobiographical Book, My Story

Diwali Special: Light and Hope in Kaifi Azmi's Charaghan

Finding Your Light Amidst Darkness: Shantideva’s Prayer

Seeing the World Through a Poet’s Roving Eye: P Lal’s Composition, The Poet

Poetry in the Time of War: Faiz’ Poems on Palestine

Poetic Resistance: Garba as a Form of Protest

On Silence and Solitude in Eunice de Souza’s Poems

Sultana’s Dream: Sketching a Feminist Dystopia in Early 20th Century Bengal

A Secret Vigilance: Hakim Muhammad Yusuf Hasan’s Book, Do Shiza

1. Dim Lights and Safe Spaces: Inez Dullas’ Ode to Queer Parties

"Ye Insaaf Ki Jagah Hai": The Djinns of Firoz Shah Kotla

Kaikeyi’s Lament: Reimagining the Ramayana

“And in my face – a semblance”: The Poetry of Jean Arasanayagam

The Diasporic Experience in Muna Madan: Laxmi Parsad Devkota’s Writing and Lain Singh Bangdel’s Painting

Dangerous Women: Poets, Pariahs and Women Who Dared to Speak

Dangerous Women: The Contribution of Mah Laqa Bai and Tawaifs to Urdu Cultural Heritage

The Song of the Grinding Stone: Bahinabai's Poems of Domesticity and Nature

The Radical Revolt: The Poetics of Dissent in Sant Janabai’s verse

Monsoon Special: Abhisarika Nayika by Mola Ram Singh and The Rain by Kamala Das

Special Edition for Delhi-Lovers: Paintings by Ghulam Ali Khan and Shayari by Mir

Poet's first flight from London to Paris by Gaganendranath Tagore and Sher by Ghalib

Ek Bijli by Amrita Pritam - A Rare Find!

Father's Day Special: The Little Big Man by Tagore and Father Returning Home by Dilip Chitre

Sadequain’s Illustration for Albert Camus’s, The Stranger and The End by Dilip Chitre

Pride Month Special: Bhupen Khakhar's Coming Out Painting and Amrita Sher-Gil's Letter

Goddess Kali by MV Dhurandhar and Hamein Chahiye Tha Milna by Parveen Shakir

Mother's Day Special: Sui Aur Taage Ke Beech Me by Kedarnath Singh

Ladies Playing Cards by B Prabha and The Female of the Species by Gauri Deshpande

Krishna Consorting Radha by Sunayini Devi and Sher by Ahmad Faraz

A White Eid (?) and Self-Portrait by AK Ramanujan

Krishna (Spring in Kulu) by Nicholas Roerich and Darling Coffee by Meena Alexander

The Pieta by FN Souza and Our Mission is Water by APJ Abdul Kalam

A Controversial Painting by Manjit Bawa and Irani Restaurant Instructions by Nissim Ezekiel

Divine Presence by SG Thakur Singh and I Walked on a Path by Jiddu Krishnamurti

Raja Rani by MF Husain and A Sinister Rhyme by Gorakh Pandey

Mountains by Gaganendranath Tagore and Friendship by Srinivas Rayaprol

Kashmiri Women by B Prabha and Priye, Main Hoon Ek Paheli Bhi by Mahadevi Verma

Memories of Bombay by SH Raza and Western Ghats by Eunice De Souza

Ragazza Parsi by Pestonji Bomanji and My Grandmother's House by Kamala Das

Laila Cries Over Majnu's Grave by Sarada Ukil and Rang Hai Dil Ka Mere by Faiz Ahmad Faiz

Street in Fontainhas by Mario Miranda and Postcard from Kashmir by Agha Shahid Ali

Magazine Doodle by FN Souza and Agyeya's Jo Pul Banayenge

Girl in the Garden by Anna Molka Ahmed and Amrita Pritam's Musings on Fearless Reading

Amrita Sher-Gil's Woman on Charpai and Kedarnath Singh's Vigyan Aur Neend

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