The politics of street food in India
A new book exposes the myths behind India's 'growth miracle', and looks for ways out of the ecological and social devastation of the current neoliberal model.
A colonial experiment in ethnographic photography offers a rare glimpse into Southasia’s communities circa the 19th century
Does Vijay Prashad’s Uncle Swami do justice to the US ‘desi’ identity?
India needs to own its historical secularism, rather than reject it as an alien concept, to move the country towards more just governance.
Perry Anderson’s ‘The Indian Ideology’ bores through the orthodoxies of Indian nationalist history.
Meena Menon’s book does Mumbai a service, recording personal accounts of the Mumbai riots, and showing us what they mean for the city today.
