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The Homegrown Culture Bulletin.

This Week In Culture: An Acid-Dropping Powerpuff Girl, A Marathi Animated Short, & More

13 Jun 2025

6 min read

Hoshang Merchant

The Prose & Pain Of Hoshang Merchant, India’s First Openly Queer Poet

08 Jun 2021

4 min read

Remembering Charles Philip Brown: The Englishman Who Saved Telugu Literature

Remembering Charles Philip Brown: The Englishman Who Saved Telugu Literature

06 Apr 2022

4 min read

To resuscitate Urdu magazines means more than reprinting old issues in Devanagari script. It means recommitting to a form of publishing that trusts the intelligence of its readers, especially its women, and doesn’t reduce them to markets.

More Than Nostalgia: The Subversive Cultural Legacy Of Urdu Magazines Must Be Protected

Anahita Ahluwalia

10 Jun 2025

6 min read

A Poet’s Guide To Mumbai

A Poet’s Guide To Mumbai

08 Jun 2021

6 min read

Badnam Basti, a queer film that disappeared for decades, only to resurface in 2019.

Badnam Basti: The Untold Legacy of India's First Queer Film

Homegrown Writer

09 Aug 2023

5 min read

This Week In Culture: Kama Sutra-Inspired Jewellery, Heritage Cafés Of Kolkata, & More

This Week In Culture: Kama Sutra-Inspired Jewellery, Heritage Cafés Of Kolkata, & More

Anahita Ahluwalia

06 Jun 2025

5 min read

On 'Speak, Amnesia', Jeet Thayil Occupies The Liminal Space Between Memory & Forgetting

On 'Speak, Amnesia', Jeet Thayil Occupies The Liminal Space Between Memory & Forgetting

06 Jun 2025

5 min read

Drawing from her grandmother's manuscripts, handwritten notes, and Pidathala's childhood memories, Five Morsels Of Love is an archive of over one hundred heirloom recipes from Andhra cuisine.

Archana Pidathala’s ‘Five Morsels Of Love’ Defies The Flattening Of Indian Culinary Art

28 May 2025

7 min read

Banu Mushtaq & Deepa Bhasthi

Banu Mushtaq & Deepa Bhasthi's Booker Prize Win Makes History For Kannada Literature

21 May 2025

3 min read

Through a curated collection of art, photography and design, it honours the role of rivers, not only in shaping landscapes but also in shaping us.

'Water Memories' Is A Homegrown Artbook Depicting The Bond Between Rivers & Civilisation

15 May 2025

2 min read

Tagore's early writing from his formative years was shaped by his unrequited love for Annapurna Turkhad — the second daughter of physician, social reformer, and Prarthana Samaj founder Dr Atmaram Pandurang Turkhadekar.

A Love Lost In Time: Rabindranath Tagore, Annapurna Turkhad, And His Poetry Of Yearning

06 May 2025

4 min read

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