CATEGORIES
فئات
HOW TO SEE ART?
BN Goswamy's strategies of seeing
Bitter Crop
Ghana's cacao plantations in crisis
SURVEYORS OF DESTRUCTION
An atmosphere of fear persists in the wake of the Sambhal violence
SITE OF DECEIT
HOW THE ASI FORTIFIES HINDUTVA HISTORY
The Broken Pact
Minority legislators rue the erosion of the Constitution under the Modi government/
Hate by Proxy
How shadow accounts on Meta spread BJP propaganda in Jharkhand
Mob Mentality
How the Modi government fuels a dangerous vigilantism
RIP TIDES
Shahidul Alam’s exploration of Bangladeshi photography and activism
Trickle-down Effect
Nepal–India tensions have advanced from the diplomatic level to the public sphere
Editor's Pick
ON 23 SEPTEMBER 1950, the diplomat Ralph Bunche, seen here addressing the 1965 Selma to Montgomery March, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The first black Nobel laureate, Bunche was awarded the prize for his efforts in ending the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
Shades of The Grey
A Pune bakery rejects the rigid binaries of everyday life / Gender
Scorched Hearths
A photographer-nurse recalls the Delhi violence
Licence to Kill
A photojournalist’s account of documenting the Delhi violence
CRIME AND PREJUDICE
The BJP and Delhi Police’s hand in the Delhi violence
Bled Dry
How India exploits health workers
The Bookshelf: The Man Who Learnt To Fly But Could Not Land
This 2013 novel, newly translated, follows the trajectory of its protagonist, KTN Kottoor.
Status Update
India’s telling silence on the Hagia Sophia controversy
Tasks Forced
Sri Lanka’s excessively militarised response to COVID-19
SOCIAL STRUCTURE
Caste and the delusion of “merit” in Indian higher education
OCCUPATION HAZARDS
The heavy cost of revoking Article 370 in Kashmir
THE BOOKSHELF
THE WOMEN WHO FORGOT TO INVENT FACEBOOK AND OTHER STORIES
WRINKLES IN TIME
How a contemporary Urdu writer dissolves the boundaries between traditional and modern
LAST GASP
What Tuberculosis can teach India about COVID-19
Dreams From Their Fathers
A photographer comes to terms with the mystical allure of Tamil cinema
Building Discontent
Welfare boards have failed to protect India’s construction workers
A Special Injustice
Special courts will fall short until there is impartial investigation into the Delhi violence
Fantasies Of Control
The colonial character of the Modi government’s actions during the pandemic / History
The Harvest Of Casteism
Race, caste and what it will take to make Dalit lives matter
Race Against Time
India’s place in the global COVID-19 vaccine wars / Health
Testing Times
The government’s neglect of non-COVID infectious diseases could prove costly / Health