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Food for train journeys
Arunava Sinha’s collection of translated Bengali short stories offers a quirky mix of the expected and the unknown.
Supriya Chaudhuri | Jul 27, 2016
Roads to riches
With natural resources at the country’s hilly edges and infrastructure spreading from the central plains, Myanmar eyes a federal bargain.
Mari Michener Oye | Jun 10, 2016
People of a Southasian past
A colonial experiment in ethnographic photography offers a rare glimpse into Southasia’s communities circa the 19th century
The Editors | Jan 21, 2013
Tribe
Does Vijay Prashad’s Uncle Swami do justice to the US ‘desi’ identity?
Prabhu Ghate | Jan 15, 2013
Delhi – Yangon – Delhi
A trip across borders geographical, political and cultural unravels the complex histories between India, Myanmar and their peoples
Nandita Haksar | Jan 15, 2013
India (for Safdar Hashmi)
Mimicking Allen Ginsberg’s ‘America’, a poet’s scathing critique of the Indian nationalist project
Amitava Kumar | Jan 14, 2013
The Mongolian fringe
The exodus of Northeasterners from a number of major Indian cities underlines a reality that the Indian national elites would rather not talk about
Sanjib Baruah | Jan 14, 2013
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Rampant ethnic chauvinism of the kind that has shattered Manipur’s civil society is ingrained in communities across the Northeast
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