Darjeeling

Blind water

A short story.

| Feb 26, 2019

The art of translating Indra Bahadur Rai

Interview with Nepali author and translator Prawin Adhikari.

| May 10, 2018

Gorkhaland and beyond

Responses to the Gorkhaland agitation demonstrate the one-size-fits-all policy identity movements in India encounter.

| Dec 15, 2014

Beyond sausages and poached eggs

Fiction: Below are the ramblings of an inhabitant of Darjeeling whom I often happen to meet. They are the words we have been hearing in the hills since the beginning of the Gorkhaland agitation in …

| Dec 27, 2013

How not to write a history of Gorkhaland

Romit Bagchi's book on Darjeeling and the Gorkhaland movement rings hollow.

| Feb 22, 2013

People of a Southasian past

A colonial experiment in ethnographic photography offers a rare glimpse into Southasia’s communities circa the 19th century

| Jan 21, 2013

Premature Gorkhaland

This is a translation from a Nepali-language article that originally appeared in the Kathmandu-based Himal Khabarpatrika, 15-29 June 2010.

| Jul 01, 2010

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