‘…Anahita and Shamini, co-founders of QueerAbad, say in the first issue of the zine ‘Tilt’, Queerabad gives “access to a queer world and way of life with all its tedha-ness”. A glimpse of the LGBT+ life in Ahmedabad.

‘The seasons change and with them, the narrator’s disposition. ‘In spring I suffer. The season doesn’t invigorate me, I find it depleting’, but in August, ‘I’m not a fan of this month, but I don’t hate it either’.’ A critique of Jhumpa Lahiri’s ‘Whereabouts’.

‘…Through the next six hours, everything Nirmala tried turned into a farce. When she tried to strike various poses on one leg, she shook uncontrollably and had to abandon the pose to avoid falling. She made mistakes in every tukda she attempted but battled on valiantly.’

‘Like his close associates in Santiniketan Ramkinkar engaged with the local environment but viewed it through the lens of a different sensibility, and he drew his skill sets from different art traditions, this allowed him to focus upon the shared world in a personal way, or made him an iconoclast if you like.’ Ramkinkar’s artistic philosophy.

‘It has just been announced that all Board examinations are to be cancelled. The implications of this are also something the students are having to wrap their minds around. ….considering the importance this country gives to Board examinations and competitive examinations.’ Cancelled examinations, cancelled futures?

‘These two colossal figures were a major shift from his early works in terms of the material. The earlier works were in concrete whereas these two were in stone. Though not formally, but in terms of the material and thereby textures, the works looked a little different from the oeuvre of Ramkinkar’s sculptures.’ A study of Ramkinkar’s iconic Yaksha-Yakshi.

‘One day, Arati asked me about the seasons in the poems, both Paudyal’s and Thomson’s. I took the opportunity to tell her about the six-season cantos common to such poems. Arati shook her head in disapproval – why hadn’t Paudyal written about the most important season in Darjeeling?’ Of seasonal poems.

‘I hope we all have the strength to hold the line for as long as we have to fight. It may be a long war and we may lose a few battles but I believe, as all of us must, that we still have a lot of fight left in us.’

‘Badrinath, Kedarnath and the entire hilly region of Garhwal are linked to the epic Mahabharata. It is here that local people perform the Pandava Leela that retells the local version of the tale.’ An epic in the mountains.