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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 ...

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

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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 ...

ON THE PHONE, Muhammad, a shopkeeper from Minicoy, the southern-most coral atoll in the Lakshadweep islands, sounded worried. Sales at his provisions-and-stationery shop had crashed. By March 2022, ...

THESE LINES, translated from Malayalam, are part of what is known as the Mappila Ramayana. As countless other places and communities have done, the Mappilas—Muslims who live in the Malabar region of ...

WHAT IF the trouble with Nehru’s India was that, contrary to received wisdom, it was too right-wing? That is the question Gunnar Myrdal asked in his 1968 magnum opus, Asian Drama. Weighing in at a ...

ON A CLOUDLESS DAY in March 2012, an Audi sped along the highway connecting Milan and Lugano. Its two occupants, the 68-year-old Italian-American businessman Guido Ralph Haschke and his friend and ...