topic: India
November 12, 2015
Between September 30 and October 1, BBC News and Al-Jazeera Asia ran headlines such as “ Indian man lynched over beef rumors ” and “ Indian...
blog
November 8, 2015
More than 6 months ago, I had flirted here with the idea that come 2019, when India goes to vote in the world’s largest exercise of its...
Reviews
November 4, 2015
Malik Sajad was born in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian-occupied Kashmir, in 1987. Munnu: A Boy From Kashmir is his first book-...
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October 30, 2015
“You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist”—Indira Gandhi Two of her own bodyguards assassinated the first female Prime Minister of India...
Opinion
October 23, 2015
In an extraordinary public statement on live television earlier this week, on the eve of Pakistani Prime Miniser Nawaz Sharif’s visit to...
Reviews
September 24, 2015
This is a race critical review of the BBC documentary India’s Daughter . It seeks to examine the orientalism inherent in this documentary’s...
Reviews
July 6, 2015
The Indian novels written in English that Western readers are most familiar with have been referred to as “the sari and mango novels” by...
Opinion
June 15, 2015
“Dougla” is a slur meaning “bastard” or “mutt.” It has its origins in Bhojpuri, the dialect of Hindi spoken by the majority of Indians who...
Opinion
June 11, 2015
Three months ago, Guyana’s new president, then the candidate of an opposition coalition hoping to unseat the country’s ruling party, was...
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