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

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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 ...

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 ...

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

THE TRAINS SPED PAST, their roar regularly interrupting our conversation. The earth trembled and we sat silent. The room was darkened against the scorching forty-degree heat outside. We were sitting ...

WHO HOLDS THE CAMERA remains a powerful question in visual culture, especially when it unsettles long-standing hierarchies of representation. The acts of photographing and of being photographed are at ...

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 ...

LATE INTO THE NIGHT between 21 and 22 December 2023, five officers rushed into a room at the Echo Company Base of the 48 Rashtriya Rifles, at the small ridge of Dera Ki Gali. The base overlooks the ...

AROUND TEN EDITORS, their faces tense, gathered in a conference room in a swanky Noida office. Among them were the executive editor of CNN News18, the chief executive producer of IBN Network and the ...

AS THE JEEP he was in approached the Shilapani bridge, Jagadish Chandra would not have known he was being watched. It had been a trying and chaotic few weeks for him, but he had tried to right his ...