Cold War
The politics of democratic planning in postcolonial India
In Nikhil Menon’s ‘Planning Democracy’, the vision of economic planning shows the strain between technocracy and representative democracy in India
Sarath Pillai | Apr 25, 2023
Remembering our own
The Blood Telegram by Gary J Bass reminds us that 1971 is an evolving story.
Garga Chatterjee | Sep 07, 2015
Back in ’71: US policy revisited
Newly declassified US records show a more full and gruesome picture of what took place behind the scenes of the 1911 Southasian Crisis in Islamabad, New Delhi and Washington, DC. They also show a softer …
Imtiaz Ahmed | May 01, 2006
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In ‘Sovereigns of the Sea’, the histories of Omani sultans in the age of empire speak to the interconnectedness of Southasia, West Asia and East Africa
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Crisis in India’s bread basket
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
