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चाची 420 की जातिवादी चार सौ बीसी[1]
चाची 420 की जातिवादी चार सौ बीसी[1]

ऐसा प्रतीत होता है कि जातिवाद की खिल्ली उड़ाने के लिए बनाए जा रहे सभी तरह के कार्टून चित्रों के…
By Swati Vijaya
May 21, 2020
चाची 420 की जातिवादी चार सौ बीसी[1]
Exposed Book Wall: The Night Train at Deoli and Other Tales of Delusional Love
Exposed Book Wall: The Night Train at Deoli and Other Tales of Delusional Love

Coming back to finding a utopic home within the narratives from The Night Train at Deoli, the book wasn’t necessarily an escape from what constituted the material home, but rather an assurance that love can have plural possibilities, and so can what comes to be ‘home’.
By Swati Vijaya
March 19, 2018
Exposed Book Wall: The Night Train at Deoli and Other Tales of Delusional Love
The Casteist Charsobeesi[1] of Chachi 420
The Casteist Charsobeesi[1] of Chachi 420

 Kamal Hassan has come to be quite a literal poster boy of all anti-caste memes lately. To reminisce about the…
By Swati Vijaya
October 3, 2017
The Casteist Charsobeesi[1] of Chachi 420
Queer Women in Aranyani’s A Pleasant Kind of Heavy and Other Stories*
Poster of the book 'A pleasant kind of heavy and other erotic stories'. Breasts are drawn with blue ink at the top with bright red background.
Queer Women in Aranyani’s A Pleasant Kind of Heavy and Other Stories*

Aranyani’s writing most certainly has a sensory charm and no two people are going to experience her narration the same way. I wish you a happy and gloriously gay reading of this fleshy collection of erotic stories!
By Swati Vijaya
September 1, 2017
Queer Women in Aranyani’s A Pleasant Kind of Heavy and Other Stories*