Tag: Perspective


  • Kashmir: Homeland and dispute. Even though people talk of it as paradise, it is everything else than a paradise for a resident. Kashmir. This one word inspires so many thoughts, brings forth so many things, images, that Iโ€™m not sure where to start. For an Indian, itโ€™s the crown and an integral part of the…

  • From the Editor: Roland Barthes, in fullย Roland Gรฉrard Barthes, (born November 12, 1915,ย Cherbourg, Franceโ€”died March 25, 1980, Paris), French essayist and social and literary critic whose writings onย semiotics, the formal study of symbols and signs pioneered byย Ferdinand de Saussure, helped establish structuralism and theย New Criticismย as leadingย intellectual movements. Barthesโ€™s literary style, which was always stimulating though…

  • Thereโ€™s a strange dynamic to the architecture of hotels in Kashmir that have existed during these times of siege since the last few decades. Today, as I walked through the barbed wires boldly glistening in the faint sunlight of an unbecoming winter, I noticed that most of them, or least of all the ones I…