But Ikkis engages with a very different part of the charged legacy: personal courage amid the futility of war, and a quest ...

Communities / Photo Essay A collective memory project documents the lives of the Christian communities of Mumbai Soboicar / The Citizens' Archive of India ...

Conflict / Essay The day they killed Burhan: Two years on, a Kashmiri remembers the death of the militant leader Adil Langoo Politics / Commentary The BJP is not concerned with Kashmir, it is only ...

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These texts come from very different places and vantage points, but all use food to write of deprivation, while refusing to ...

This excerpt focusses on the Poona Pact, 1932, and the stance taken by Periyar and the Self-Respect Movement towards “what BR ...

Kamal Desai’s novel, a landmark of Indian feminist fiction that was first published in Marathi in 1975, is out in a ...

WHEN I MET DILEEPAN MAHENDRAN, in February this year, he seemed a man obsessed. His small one-room home on the outskirts of Chennai was overflowing with paper clippings. His laptop had at least a ...

A GROUP OF AROUND TEN PEOPLE arrived outside the Hyatt Regency in Ahmedabad early in the morning of 14 February 2016. Chanting “Jai Shri Ram” and “Shah Rukh Khan hai hai,” they threw stones into the ...

THE CENSUS TOWN OF SABOUR, on the outskirts of Bhagalpur, was first connected by rail to the colonial capital, Calcutta, in 1861. Five years later, the first train between Howrah and Delhi—the ...

Almost three decades ago today, on 23 March 1987, an election was held in Jammu and Kashmir that would come to be considered a watershed moment in the history of the state. The elections, conducted ...