Garga Chatterjee

Bangali bideshe

A West Bengali’s perspective of the Bangladeshi diaspora.

Oct 19, 2015

Remembering our own

The Blood Telegram by Gary J Bass reminds us that 1971 is an evolving story.

Sep 07, 2015

The wrong formula

India’s National Science Day highlights the deep malaise in state-sponsored science awareness programmes.

Mar 26, 2012

Roads and redistributive injustice

To try and disallow people from jaywalking is an encroachment on the commons.

Jan 29, 2011

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Rampant ethnic chauvinism of the kind that has shattered Manipur’s civil society is ingrained in communities across the Northeast

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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