In a statement given to the Scholars at Risk, his wife Vasantha Kumari said that during her last phone call with Saibaba, he “could speak with great difficulty. We could make out he was breathless, his throat was sore.” With each passing day, it grows increasingly troubling that, even after a positive test for Covid-19, the Indian government and the government of Maharashtra State will continue their practice of denying basic medical care to Saibaba.
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In this interview with Sampsonia Way and Aster(ix) Journal, Kothari speaks about her relationship with her mother, her family’s experience as outsiders, and her own journey through writing.
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An interview with Raza Rumi, the ICORN writer-in-residence of City of Asylum in Ithaca, the United States.
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Spectoons pays tribute to the late cartoonist RK Laxman, who passed away on January 26, 2015.
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This year, we spoke to poets, journalists, filmmakers and novelists from India to Morocco, from France to Iran. We talked about revolution, the forgotten history of the United Farm Worker Movement in Texas, hereditary exile, writing as an act of defiance, and much more.
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Even if all traces of the poliovirus were to disappear from Pakistan tomorrow, we Pakistanis would still approach levels of near-insanity every time we have to travel abroad.
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