India

India’s slow-burn affair with Israel heats up
Azad Essa’s 'Hostile Homelands' explores the ideological convergence of Hindutva and Zionism, and the consequences for Kashmir and Palestine – but there is much more driving India and Israel’s deepening ties
Rohan Venkat | Dec 01, 2023

A wave of bold new books on the Gorkhaland agitation
Home-grown authors have shattered the fearful silence surrounding the 1986 movement for a separate Gorkha state in India
Anuradha Sharma | Nov 15, 2023

Misguided mega-projects threaten to devastate the Andaman and Nicobar Islands
The NITI Aayog, an Indian government think tank, is spearheading “development” projects that would strip indigenous people of their land and rights, and destroy precious forests and sea turtle breeding grounds
Edith Mirante | Nov 10, 2023

How Manipur’s ethnic violence ripped a queer friendship apart
The collapse of a deep Meitei–Kuki friendship shows how Manipur’s nascent queer movement is fraying, threatening its hard-won gains in the violence-torn Indian state
Schulu Duo | Oct 31, 2023

The hidden stigma around beef in Kashmir
In Kashmiri Muslim society, beef and mutton consumption entrenches caste and class fault lines
Burhan Majid | Oct 13, 2023

How Tibetans in Karnataka’s Dhondenling put down roots in refuge
The lush home gardens in India’s southernmost Tibetan refugee settlement tell stories tracing 50 years of exile
Hanna Geschewski | Oct 10, 2023

Kashmir’s religious institutions are the Modi government’s latest battlefront
The Modi government and the BJP’s systematic push for control over mosques and madrassas in India-administered Kashmir is spilling over into communal conduct by the Indian armed forces
Maknoon Wani | Oct 05, 2023

Manipur’s conflict has harsh lessons for all of India’s Northeast
Rampant ethnic chauvinism of the kind that has shattered Manipur’s civil society is ingrained in communities across the Northeast
G Kanato Chophy | Sep 25, 2023

Crisis in India’s bread basket
How agriculture, capital and corporate investment have reshaped Indian Punjab, and brought about its current precarity
Shreya Sinha | Sep 16, 2023

‘Jawan’ treads with caution in an India on edge
Shah Rukh Khan and the director Atlee’s tedious blockbuster has a veneer of being political even as it bends to prevailing winds – and its gender bias does not help
Anna M M Vetticad | Sep 12, 2023
