history
Revisiting Mehrauli
Swapna Liddle, author-historian, on Mehrauli, its composite culture and misinformation around its history.
Shaz Syed | Dec 22, 2022
India’s vanishing pasts
On the Idara archives' efforts to preserve Deccan literary, artistic, and historical cultures.
Sarah Waheed and Yamini Krishna | Jul 19, 2022
Memories of Galwan Valley
Recent India-China skirmishes in the Ladakhi valley revive conversation on how borders and their memories are constructed.
Shaheen Ahmed | Aug 19, 2020
Nepal’s Ramayanas
The study of myths and histories in Southasia needs to transcend modern political boundaries.
Amish Raj Mulmi | Aug 10, 2020
India’s other China problem
Indian research and scholarship on China suffers from a narrow focus on ‘national interest’.
The Editors | Jun 19, 2020
China’s Indian Ocean?
What the simplistic narratives on China’s advances in the Indian Ocean miss.
Amish Raj Mulmi | May 12, 2020
‘We are here because you were there’
A defence of immigration on the grounds of history, economics and security.
Ambreen Agha | Mar 06, 2020
Chronicling courtesans
A new book documents the forgotten history of tawaifs – or courtesans – in northern India.
Kunal Purohit | Feb 11, 2020
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Imran Khan’s attempted arrest, UN appeal for Afghanistan aid, a graphic novel on Naga repatriation and more
March - Updates and analysis from around the region
A disappeared Maldivian journalist’s family still waits for closure
Eight years after he vanished, and despite an official report pointing to his abduction and murder, Ahmed Rilwan is yet to be declared dead, and powerful officials allegedly linked to the killers evade justice
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
Tehreek-i-Taliban is making its way back in Pakistan
Tehreek-i-Taliban’s resurgence reveals the failure of the Pakistan government’s anti-terror policy and its ambivalent, contradictory relationship with Islamist militant groups
