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Colourful pulp fiction style artwork featuring classic Indian crime and mystery novel aesthetics

Enter The World Of Indian Pulp Fiction With These 10 Novels

Homegrown Staff

08 Jun 2021

6 min read

The Homegrown Culture Bulletin

This Week In Culture: Gorillaz's New Album, Mythmaking Meets Sports, & More

12 Sep 2025

4 min read

Each stop pairs a place with a poem and a poet, along with a short note on what to notice when you get there.

Walk Through Mumbai's Heritage Locales Through The Words Of Its Legendary Poets

Anahita Ahluwalia

11 Sep 2025

8 min read

Roy risks the charge of ingratitude to make a larger argument about power. In doing so she gives many of us a vocabulary long withheld: the right to describe love that did not always feel safe.

Arundhati Roy's New Memoir Dispels The Divinity Of Motherhood & The Good Daughter

Anahita Ahluwalia

08 Sep 2025

3 min read

The collective’s pilot project, 'Debrahmanising Gender', explores how caste and gender are not separate axes of oppression but mutually reinforcing structures that shape everyday life in India.

Breaking The Brahminical Canon: The Mavelinadu Collective Is Reshaping Indian Publishing

08 Sep 2025

4 min read

The Homegrown Culture Bulletin

This Week In Culture: 'Girls Who Stray', OAFF & Savera's Matcha-Inspired Track & More

14 Aug 2025

4 min read

From Satyajit Ray To Adrish Bardhan - My Foray Into Bengali Science Fiction

From Satyajit Ray To Adrish Bardhan - My Foray Into Bengali Science Fiction

08 Jun 2021

5 min read

Book banning in India is not a recent phenomenon; it has a long history as an instrument of the British colonial empire and a blunt weapon used by fragile post-colonial governments as a recurring response to religious and political mobilisations.

The Politics Of Outrage: A Brief History Of Banned Books In India

11 Aug 2025

5 min read

Kabir Bedi as Sandokan in the 1976 television series 'Sandokan'.

Kabir Bedi's Sandokan Walked So Captain Jack Sparrow Could Run

04 Aug 2025

4 min read

The Booker Prize 2025: Indian Author Kiran Desai Could Win A Historic 2nd Booker

The Booker Prize 2025: Indian Author Kiran Desai Could Win A Historic 2nd Booker

30 Jul 2025

3 min read

'Putul Nacher Itikotha' marked a clear break from the romanticism of the Bengal Renaissance.

Puppets Of Desire: The Enduring Power Of Manik Bandyopadhyay's 'Putul Nacher Itikotha'

24 Jul 2025

4 min read

A still from Laila Aur Satt Geet (The Shepherdess And The Seven Songs), directed by Pushpendra Singh — a 2020 film inspired by Lal Ded's life and poetry.

The Poetry Of Lal Ded: Mysticism, Resistance, & The Female Voice In 14th-Century Kashmir

11 Jul 2025

3 min read

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