Gandhi
Punjab’s battles over Bhagat Singh
Controversies over the anti-colonial revolutionary expose Punjab’s political fissures, with the farmers’ protest movement, Communists, Khalistanis, the AAP and other parties all having staked their own claims
Monica Sabharwal | Mar 16, 2023
Lewis-Kuznets meet Gandhi-Ambedkar
A report looks at the state of India’s workers amid the employment crisis.
Centre for Sustainable Employment | Jan 03, 2019
No saints or miracles
Perry Anderson’s ‘The Indian Ideology’ bores through the orthodoxies of Indian nationalist history.
Namit Arora | Jan 15, 2013
The reformatting of India
The India that emerged from the Constitution of 1950 does not do justice to the shared history of the Subcontinent, or the genius of its own citizens.
Kanak Mani Dixit | Jan 13, 2013
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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
