India

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.
Maknoon Wani | Jan 23, 2023

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

Adivasis in Chhattisgarh use technology to reclaim maps and forest rights
How organisations like Khoj have empowered Adivasis in their bid to redefine state-imposed borders
Varun Sharma | Jan 16, 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

Bindu Ammini, the first woman to enter the Sabarimala temple
Four years on, the first woman to enter the Sabarimala temple, reflects on orthodoxy, police and state inaction.
Bibin Joseph | Jan 02, 2023

‘My pen doesn’t stop’
Meet the female rappers who are changing the rap music scene in India-administered Kashmir.
Sajad Hameed | Dec 27, 2022

Finding food in Chandrapur
An up-close account of hunger, food insecurity and ineffective state policies from a district in central India.
Paromita Goswami | Dec 23, 2022

Revisiting Mehrauli
Swapna Liddle, author-historian, on Mehrauli, its composite culture and misinformation around its history.
Shaz Syed | Dec 22, 2022


Politics and the Hindi press
The rise of Hindi print in India since the early 1970s.
Mrinal Pande | Dec 02, 2022
