Commentary
Tunnel to the future
How the Atal Tunnel is reshaping life in Lahaul.
Kesang Thakur and Anu Sabhlok | Oct 28, 2022
Notes on the Sri Lankan struggle
Police brutality and growing public consciousness during the ‘Janatha Aragalaya’.
Marlon Ariyasinghe | Aug 09, 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
Productively ‘perverse’
Punjabi films of the 1970s-80s as a tool for resistance during Zia-ul-Haq’s dictatorship.
Nahal Sheikh | May 24, 2022
The hearth of the matter
A writer's personal reckoning with ancestral kitchens and the ways in which we occupy them.
Meher Mirza | Feb 25, 2022
Eating from the Bohra thaal
How commensality for some could mean alienation to others.
Alefiya Tundawala | Feb 23, 2022
No laphing matter
On the Tibetan dish laphing and its recent popularity across the region.
Nangsel Sherpa and Shriya Singh | Feb 21, 2022
Pakistan’s digital battlegrounds
The unexpected rise of esports in Pakistan.
Haseeb Asif | Feb 18, 2022
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