topic: India
October 15, 2014
Tales of repression and subjugation are ubiquitous in the military-ruled northernmost borderland of India, the state of Jammu and Kashmir...
Literature
October 6, 2014
Houses in small towns have strange nicknames. My parents' house, for instance, is known to the residents of the locality as White House –...
blog
September 9, 2014
On Tuesday, September 1, the rains came. By the next day, much of the city of Srinagar in the Indian-controlled region of Jammu and Kashmir...
Reportage
September 9, 2014
10 May 2014, Saturday It is two days after the parliamentary elections in North Kasmir. There has been stone-throwing in Sopore, and many...
Conversations
August 26, 2014
Amit Chaudhuri first came into public light with his collection of short stories, A Strange and Sublime Address which featured a young boy'...
blog
August 13, 2014
Fashion's penchant for glamorizing horrible things reached new lows this week. Mumbai fashion photographer Raj Shetye's latest series,...
blog
July 24, 2014
Originally published in Countercurrents . Bihurama Ganju, a resident of Gurunjuli village along the Assam-Arunchal border, was beaten to...
Opinion
June 1, 2014
At the time of gloaming on the evening of 18 May 2014, Narendra Modi, the then Prime Minister-to-be of India spoke into the microphone on...
Reviews
May 7, 2014
Violence founds and preserves the state. Monopoly over the legal use of violence is, Max Weber reminds us, indispensable to all modern...
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