culture
Who doesn’t put ghee in their khichuri?
On food and representation, online and offline.
Debolina Dey | Sep 11, 2020
Chronicling courtesans
A new book documents the forgotten history of tawaifs – or courtesans – in northern India.
Kunal Purohit | Feb 11, 2020
From ‘Mother India’ to ‘Mission Mangal’
Homegrown technologies at the service of Indian nationalism in Hindi cinema.
Damini Kulkarni | Sep 18, 2019
Questioning Sairat’s politics
The caste and gender dynamics of Nagraj Manjule’s ‘Sairat’.
Firdaus Soni | Jul 25, 2016
Shangri-la, continued
Thimphu bookshops, language choice and the most recent clutch of fiction from Bhutan.
Ross Adkin | Jun 24, 2016
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Southasiasphere podcast episode 02: Updates and analysis from around the region.
