Journal · पत्रिका
लेख
Letters from the haveli.
A slow journal — essays, dispatches, field notes, and occasional translations. Published roughly monthly between editions.
Heritage
12 May 2026
Reading the painted wall
What a 19th-century merchant chose to paint above his door tells us more than his account books ever did. A short course in reading a haveli façade.
Anuradha Joshi
Read →Language
03 April 2026
Rajasthani as resistance
On the long campaign to have Rajasthani recognised under the Eighth Schedule — and what we lose each decade we wait.
Editorial
Read →Music
21 March 2026
The bhopa and the microphone
How oral epics survive — and shift — when amplified, recorded, and streamed.
Manganiyar Bhopa
Read →Translation
02 February 2026
Twelve untranslatable words
From birha to bichchhoh — twelve Hindi and Rajasthani words our translation salon will spend three days failing, beautifully, to render.
Daisy Rockwell
Read →Essay
14 January 2026
What the fresco asks of the poet
A poem written for the painted wall must compete with two hundred years of pigment. Notes on a strange form.
Kumar Ambuj
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