In her book "Colonial Justice in British India", Elizabeth Kolsky points out that colonial discourse had a lot to say about patriarchal practices specific to the subcontinent, like child marriage or purdah, to establish racial difference. However, when it came to patriarchal +
We congratulate Anne Carson, winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature. Carson is a contributing editor at Granta and a regular writer for the magazine. In celebration, we have lifted the paywall on all her contributions to our pages.
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BREAKING NEWS
The 2026 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the Canadian author Anne Carson, “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.”
Marie Curie and her daughter Irène Joliot-Curie both transformed science – and made history as the only mother and daughter to each receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
We will soon be announcing the 2026 #NobelPrize in Chemistry. Watch live on our social channels, YouTube and https://t.co/m577HIID0a.
The 2026 #NobelPrize laureates in physiology or medicine have laid the foundation of a new era in neuroscience.
Using optogenetics, researchers have been able to reveal neural circuits governing specific memories, feelings, and behaviours relevant for neurological and psychiatric disorders. In clinical medicine, researchers are using the method in attempts to restore sight in people with visual impairment.
Optogenetics has fundamentally altered our understanding of the brain. Every day brings new discoveries, helping to solve one of humanity’s great mysteries: how our incredible brain works.
how much of childhood nostalgia/“how the world looked when I was a kid” rhetoric is actually just bc once u become a student/work full time ur not really home in the middle of the day anymore
'Azadi Ki Chhaon Mein' is Begum Anees Qidwai's Urdu account of the horrific events that followed the Partition, specifically in Delhi. It begins in September 1947. Especially notable are her descriptions of the camps (Purana Qila etc.) & the situation in rural Delhi...
It takes a lot of money to not smell. Money for water, for better quality clothes, to pay for electricity to heat the water in which to bathe and wash clothes. Easier for the rich to judge a poor woman or man than to even understand the systemic inequalities underlying body odor.
✨👃🏻COVER REVEAL👃🏻✨
Nothing will smell the same again.
So thrilled to show you the cover design for the UK edition of Under Your Nose, which will be published on the 22nd of April 2027 AND is now available to pre-order through the link in my bio!
The Pakistan Academy of Letters with Yasmeen Hamid, poet and inaugural director of the Gurmani Center at LUMS, has put together a 500+ page anthology of Pak literature in English. It deserves your attention if you teach global or South Asian literature anywhere in the world.