An excerpt from Chandu Maheria’s memoir, reflecting on growing up in Ahmedabad’s working-class chawls and the place of Mohandas K Gandhi in Dalit life and political thought
Namit Arora and Romila Thapar on how identities in early and medieval India were formed, contested, and why a shared sense of “Indianness” may be a colonial-era development
Forced migration, “development” pressures, political neglect and the climate crisis have assailed the Maldives’ less-populous atolls, eroding the country’s identity and driving thousands to the capital
