topic: India
February 5, 2014
Foreword Omair Ahmed's book Jimmy the Terrorist was shortlisted for the 2009 Man Asian Literary Prize. However, it was in this short story...
retrospectives
February 5, 2014
Foreword Meena Alexander’s novel Nampally Road takes place in the city of Hyderabad amidst unrest and opposition to Chief Minister Limca...
retrospectives
February 5, 2014
This essay is excerpted from a multimedia web project titled, The Idea of India , which photographer and writer Asim Rafiqui describes as...
retrospectives
February 5, 2014
Translator’s Preface Raktim Sarma was a former junior commissioned officer of the ULFA (United Liberation Front of Assam), the most visible...
retrospectives
February 5, 2014
The Kashmir valley experienced a painful, ultimately unsuccessful armed movement for self-determination against Indian rule from 1988-2002...
Opinion
November 23, 2013
Nov 17, 2013: For past one week, I’ve been staying aloof in my Delhi apartment, gloomily musing about the latent flames within a writer...
Opinion
January 28, 2013
Rape is not exceptional but routine in most parts of the world. The fact that a twenty-three-year-old student, Jyoti, was brutally gang...
Literature
October 9, 2012
At all times, a student’s life is most difficult: the war-like attention to details during exams, the guilt of failing to wake up at six...
Opinion
June 22, 2012
I got out of bed, showered quickly and put on a white sherwani suit that my cousin had brought from Leicester especially for the occasion...
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