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08-05-2025
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On Failing: Where the quiet complexities of failure take centre stage
Through an eclectic collection of essays spanning subjects from suicide to physiology, On Failing creates space for failure to exist-without forcing life lessons down anyone's throat Premium Akankshya Abismruta Listen to This Article ON FAILING Editor: Amit Chaudhuri Publisher: Westland Pages: 124 Price: ₹399 Literary Activism is a project that began in 2014 with a series of annual symposia. The project aims to create a space for creative and critical discussions and intervention beyond commercial publishing, literary festivals and traditional academia. It brings together numerous national and international poets, novelists, translators, artists, journalists, scholars, filmmakers and publishers. On Failing, edited by Amit Chaudhuri, is a collection of eight essays and one short story presented at the fifth symposium in February 2020. On Failing, as is evident from its title, explores the concept of failure and the
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24-04-2025
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The Feminisms of Our Mothers: How one woman's step sparked progress
This anthology successfully subverts the social dynamics of men and women in patriarchy, and centres women as the subjects of their exploration Akankshya Abismruta Listen to This Article The Feminisms of Our Mothers Editor: Daanika Kamal Publisher: Zubaan Books Pages: 204 Price: ₹595 This book is a collection of 20 essays written by various lawyers, civil servants, human rights advocates, public figures, academics and influencers of Pakistani descent. It explores the 'experiences and interpretations of what feminism may mean to Pakistani women through reflective conversations on the joys and conflicts of mother-daughter relationships, offering a lens through which our own feminisms are understood within the intergenerational context of a shared struggle'. These essays connect women across generations who witnessed two very different women's movements in Pakistan in 1983 against
