Reviews
Vanni: A graphic history
A recent graphic novel highlights the human cost of Sri Lanka’s civil war.
Elijah Hoole | Jun 16, 2020
When India put Indians in camps
The internment of Chinese Indians during the Sino-Indian War of 1962 has contemporary echoes.
Uttaran Das Gupta | Jun 09, 2020
The fight for the commons
Who has the power to secure and legislate public spaces in cities?
Varun Nayar | May 25, 2020
China’s Indian Ocean?
What the simplistic narratives on China’s advances in the Indian Ocean miss.
Amish Raj Mulmi | May 12, 2020
Chronicling Partition with Intizar Husain
A recently translated novel brings a new perspective on Partition to the English-speaking world.
Priyanka Lindgren | Mar 17, 2020
‘We are here because you were there’
A defence of immigration on the grounds of history, economics and security.
Ambreen Agha | Mar 06, 2020
Chronicling courtesans
A new book documents the forgotten history of tawaifs – or courtesans – in northern India.
Kunal Purohit | Feb 11, 2020
The marriages in-between
A review of Sidharthan Maunaguru’s 'Marrying for a Future: Transnational Sri Lankan Tamil Marriages in the Shadow of War'.
V V Ganeshananthan | Jan 29, 2020
Attesting the ‘wounded land’
A review of 'Then There Were No Witnesses' by Ahilan, translated by Geetha Sukumaran.
Kavitha Muralidharan | Jan 27, 2020
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