Madhopur Ka Ghar is a daringly introspective novel, a work of startling originality and beauty, and reliable and relatable like Rahi Masoom Raza’s classic novel Aadha Gaon.
As the sage Atri in the Rig Veda exhorts, we need love (erotic and spiritual) because without it the world lacks gloss—emotional and physical. And love is what gives humanity its authenticity and allows us to reap the bounties of paradise.
BY Ashwani Kumar 14 January 2023
I came to the world like a dead telegram...Locked in the jail, accused of stealing electric wire, the village thief’s faint sobs sparkle like my mother’s sindoor.
BY Ashwani Kumar 10 December 2022
A poem dedicated to Outlook's Adivasi Identity and Rights Issue
BY Ashwani Kumar 10 December 2022
The memoir by a police officer tells a delightfully unique, personal tale of a cop surmounting routine bureaucratic and professional challenges to achieve a ‘near miracle’ in fixing a recalcitrant state
BY Ashwani Kumar 18 November 2022
Ashwani Kumar writes a poem about rains and longing to write a book of rains.
BY Ashwani Kumar 10 July 2022
Identity politics may have driven many progressive social movements, but electorally, it dangerously whets the appetite of the electorate for internecine war
BY Ashwani Kumar 29 January 2022
The sufferings of migrant workers have become the most rivetingly tragic tale of our times
BY Ashwani Kumar 10 January 2022
Niti Aayog’s prognosis is timely but it has missed the larger picture of irreversible social revolution in Bihar
BY Ashwani Kumar 20 December 2021
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