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Where is Arsalan Miyan?
A short story about the psychological cost of violence. [WITH AUDIO READING]
Juanita Kakoty | Apr 27, 2018
Believers’ dilemma – I
Never before has the RSS been more confident of its role in shaping India’s future. (This is part one of a two-part essay)
Abhishek Choudhary | Jun 01, 2016
The wedding march
For many employed in wedding bands in Nepal, the job is a quiet resignation to the lack of opportunities.
Paavan Mathema | Dec 30, 2015
An unjust war
‘Love Jihad’ and honour killings are strategies to quell challenges to caste, class and gender conventions.
Neha Dixit | Dec 27, 2015
The ghosts of Harlem past
The history of Southasians in America is richer than the discourse suggests.
Krishnendu Ray | Mar 16, 2015
Pollution and purity
As millions bathe in the sacred rivers they themselves have polluted during the Kumbh Mela, where does the schism between Hindu notions of nature and actual nature conservation lie?
Sarandha | Mar 15, 2013
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
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March - Updates and analysis from around the region
