Essay

A group of women and children observe the a room at the Jorasanko Thakurbari museum in Kolkata, the ancestral house of Rabindranath Tagore.
By
Ria Modak
In ‘Sahaj Path’ – Rabindranath Tagore’s much-loved work for young readers of Bengali – his views on class, caste and gender are inextricably intertwined with his aesthetics and pedagogy
A black and white image of Ganju Lama displaying his Victoria Cross ribbon as two nurses stand by.
Ganju Lama, an ethnic Bhutia, wangled his way into the Gurkha regiments and won a Victoria Cross in the Second World War – and proved that a true Gurkha need not come from a “martial” race, or be defi ...
A flag of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam at a rally in Sydney commemorating Tamil Genocide Remembrance Day. Some Tamil nationalists, particularly in the diaspora, have tried to piggyback on global solidarity with the Palestinian struggle to promote their own cause of a separate state for Sri Lankan Tamils.
By
Ragavan
It is natural to compare Gaza today and Tamils’ plight at the end of the Sri Lankan Civil War – but claims that the LTTE stood in solidarity with Palestine and got training from the PLO are dangerousl ...
Ranil Wickremesinghe’s chances of winning Sri Lanka’s 2024 presidential vote are slim. But the election is set to be the country’s most free, fair and non-violent one in living memory thanks in the main to constitutional and legal changes that Wickremesinghe effected.
After decades as a political flop, Wickremesinghe engineered a nascent economic recovery and quietly depleted the once-mighty Rajapaksas. Has his presidency, for all its flaws, given Sri Lanka a chan ...
Afghan refugees’ stories of food – and home
By
Taran N Khan
Sharing narratives about food and belonging for a writing workshop, Afghans living in Delhi preserve and construct ideas of home – both the remembered home lost to war in Afghanistan, and the home of ...
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