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Aakriti Jain

Feb 1, 20216 min read

Rerouting our Roots with Google Maps and Nationality: Salman Rushdie’s Quichotte enters our multiple realities

There are “too many roots” to be gathered in one’s lifetime; through words, gestures, and most importantly, through the cinematic world...

Aakriti Jain

Dec 27, 20204 min read

My Culture are Your Myths: In and Out of History in Sidhwa’s Ice-Candy Man

It’s strewn with the violence of partition, as is customary of books that are about partition. Birth of a nation, the separation of a...

Aakriti Jain

Nov 29, 20205 min read

A City is Differences and Objects : M. Mukundan reports our Delhi’s Soliloquy

Advertising goes way back in the Indian history, I read that in a book about advertising. It informed me that its start was the 1910s....

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