Culture
Will a new multiplex revive Kashmir’s cinema culture?
India-administered Kashmir opened its first multiplex in September 2022 after nearly three decades
Irfan Mehraj and Khalid Khan | Jan 18, 2023
The Muslim-left legacy of an Urdu library in Mumbai
The Awami Idara, rooted in a working-class Muslim neighbourhood, connects the long history of Southasian Muslim labour activism to political movements and events across Mumbai, Southasia and beyond.
Amanda Lanzillo | Jan 09, 2023
What Southasia read in 2022
Book recommendations from a year of reading by Southasian writers, poets, translators and journalists
The Editors | Jan 06, 2023
Queer notes on Begum Akhtar
Caste, sexuality and tawaif subcultures in postcolonial India.
Lucky Issar | Nov 25, 2022
Still standing
Old Delhi’s Hazrat Shah Waliullah Public Library.
Oohini Mukherjee and Zeeshan Kaskar | Oct 04, 2022
Of jujube vines, maishals and Kamatapur
Reading Rajbanshi poetry in English.
Rini Barman | Sep 06, 2022
India’s vanishing pasts
On the Idara archives' efforts to preserve Deccan literary, artistic, and historical cultures.
Sarah Waheed and Yamini Krishna | Jul 19, 2022
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Rebound or relapse: Debt restructuring in a time of crisis
A crossborder discussion on economic precarity and the impacts of ongoing debt restructuring processes and negotiations with the IMF in Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
What’s really behind Jammu and Kashmir’s new Family ID?
Kashmiris fear the scheme is another tool for surveillance and collective punishment by the Indian state.
