Aritra Bhattacharya
Aritra Bhattacharya is an independent journalist and a PhD scholar at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences (CSSS), Kolkata. He can be reached at @b_aritra on Instagram and Twitter.
When comprehensive means cosmetic
India's pollution metrics fail to capture the complex reality of environmental degradation.
Mar 25, 2020
Quiet and on the edge
A first-time visitor’s observations of present-day Kashmir.
Sep 27, 2019
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In ‘Sovereigns of the Sea’, the histories of Omani sultans in the age of empire speak to the interconnectedness of Southasia, West Asia and East Africa
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September 2023 - Updates and analysis from around the region
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How agriculture, capital and corporate investment have reshaped Indian Punjab, and brought about its current precarity
Images of the two Punjabs, partitioned yet forever alike
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