Profile
Shahidul Alam: Lessons in unlearning
The eye that challenged the status quo.
Alisha Sett | Oct 12, 2018
The making and unmaking of a star
On the life and times of Qandeel Baloch, Pakistan’s first social-media celebrity.
Laxmi Murthy | Jul 26, 2018
Adventures of a wildlife biologist
Why were lion-tailed monkeys the object of hatred among planners in Tamil Nadu and Kerala?
Rauf Ali | Jul 19, 2018
A conversation with Asma Jahangir
From our archives, when the human-rights activist spoke to author Ritu Menon.
Ritu Menon | Feb 11, 2018
Rewriting the Empire: an interview with Shrabani Basu
Journalist and historian Shrabani Basu talks about filling the gaps in the history of colonial India's relationship with Britain.
Chhetria Patrakar | Jan 27, 2018
A world of new solidarity
Harsh Mander on why we should raise our voice against injustice.
Beena Sarwar | Jun 10, 2016
The tomb of Sha-Za-Fa
BOOK EXTRACT: A writer in search of Bahadur Shah Zafar’s tomb in Burma.
Salil Tripathi | Dec 24, 2015
The importance of being honest
BOOK EXTRACT: A gay man comes out to his father in 1980s India.
Siddharth Dube | Dec 23, 2015
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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
A photographer’s journey through the Punjab in India and Pakistan shows a land and a people still tied together, despite Partition and the militarised border in between
