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Pandemics have always revealed the weakness of the Indian state
In 'Pandemic India', David Arnold offers a reflective study of Covid, cholera, plague, the Spanish flu and other historical mass contagions, from the time of the British Raj to the Modi government
Pratinav Anil | Feb 03, 2023
Pretty lakes, gritty outliers
A photo essay on the changing geographies of Calcutta’s face.
Brinda Bose | Aug 06, 2018
The idea of Kolkata
Why author Kushanava Choudhury believes his book is about the present, the Kolkata that is lived in.
Chhetria Patrakar | Jan 28, 2018
Tales of broken lands
Armenia, Syria, Bengal – the locations may change, but the unfulfilled longing for a home that is lost remains the same.
Rajashri Dasgupta | Mar 07, 2016
Bangali bideshe
A West Bengali’s perspective of the Bangladeshi diaspora.
Garga Chatterjee | Oct 19, 2015
In the streets of Dhaka
How has the colonial legacy – and the recent past – affected the trajectory of English-language literature in Bangladesh?
Fakrul Alam | Oct 15, 2015
My Japanese parents
Remembering what Japan meant to those who dreamt of transforming India after Independence.
Vijay Prashad | May 31, 2013
From Achipur to Tangra
A revival of Calcutta's Indian Chinese community may be imminent, after decades of neglect and immigration.
Fatima Chowdhury | May 01, 2009
Bengal textiles, international cloth
The Hooghly port was a major driver of globalisation centuries before Western call centres re-discovered the Subcontinent.
Madhumita Bose | May 01, 2009
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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
Disillusioned with the Taliban, Pakistan reverses its four-decade Afghan policy
As Kabul refuses to act against the TTP and Baloch militant groups, Pakistan is ending the support it has extended to the Taliban since 1994 and its welcome to refugees from Afghanistan since the 1980s
The limited genius of Geoffrey Bawa
‘Geoffrey Bawa: Drawing from the Archives’ allows an exploration of the rift between the celebrated architect’s vision for nation-building in Sri Lanka and the country’s present reality
Interview: The precarity of Afghan migrants in Pakistan
Political scientist and author Sanaa Alimia speaks of the long history of racial profiling, harassment and deportation of Afghan migrants, in the context of Pakistan’s recent crackdown
