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Re-centring the fold
A tongue-in-cheek exploration of fashion magazines in India.
Meher Varma and Pia Alize Hazarika | Jul 14, 2020
Well beyond Khairlanji
Questioning our personal contradictions is essential to any discussion on caste.
Ashley Tellis | Apr 01, 2010
The Persuasive Indian
Scepticism and rationalism brought India/Southasia till here, and will take us into the future, says the Nobel laureate.
A S Panneerselvan | Sep 01, 2005
Southeast Asia: Imagining the region
The development of a regional Southeast Asian identity may not necessarily conform to the 'facts' of geography, history, culture or politics. The notion of Southeast Asia as a homogenous cultural or geographic entity can indeed …
Amitav Acharya | Jan 01, 2003
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In Mizoram, a refugee crisis highlights Mizo tribal affinities and hostility
Shared Zo identity has Mizos extending hospitality to Chin and Kuki-Chin refugees from Myanmar and Bangladesh. More remarkable is that Chakmas, mistreated by the Mizo majority in Mizoram, have welcomed Kuki-Chin refugees too
The political fallout of violence in Manipur, Bangladesh’s economic crisis, the crackdown on PTI supporters and more
May - Updates and analysis from around the region
In ‘Agra’, a grim portrait of the repressed Indian man
Director Kanu Behl’s Hindi feature film examines the sexual obsession and frustration of men, mental health and the transactional nature of human relationships in a patriarchal society where space is in short supply
When neoliberalism came to the Indian farm
With a focus on agricultural policy since the 1990s, 'Distress in the Fields' demonstrates how neoliberal interventions sowed the seeds of the crisis faced by farmers today
