CATEGORIES
فئات
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
The Emperor's New Clothes
Another sham work of propaganda poses as Modi’s latest biography / LITERATURE
“Just a Guy on a Horse in the Garden”
India’s troubled relationship with colonial-era statues
THE BOOKSHELF
THE BOOKSHELF
Delivering Results
How antenatal care reduced home births among Adivasi women / Health
Defence Mechanisms
Venturing inside the arms trade
Binary Friction
A transwoman’s struggle for official recognition of her identity / Gender
Minding Their Business
The unfinished battle for sex workers’ rights
Death By A Thousand Cuts
Why the relief package will not undo the lockdown’s destruction of the MSMEs
Out of Breath
The lives of manual scavengers in Tamil Nadu
The Central Problem
How the union government is undermining states’ fight against COVID-19
Troubling Symptoms
The COVID-19 pandemic could help create a dystopian surveillance regime
REPORTAGE
A report on the operations of Apne Aap, an antitrafficking NGO, in Forbesganj and Kolkata
Into the Forest
An Adivasi village forages for survival during the COVID-19 lockdown
State of Denial
Britain’s COVID-19 response reveals the last gasps of its welfare state
Internal Matters
How the Modi government deflects international censure
A Baroque Urbanism
Telling stories with buildings in Dhaka and Karachi
The Long Arm of Hunger
History suggests deprivation will be an ally to COVID-19, and both must be stopped
THE FORGOTTEN HOLOCAUST
Witnesses remember the Bengal famine 77 years later
Prison Outbreak
How India is endangering vulnerable prisoners amid the COVID-19 pandemic
False Steps
The commercial roots of a “traditional” folk dance / Arts
VOICES OF REASON
The rationalists fighting superstition amid growing threats of violence
Streets Behind
Rome’s homeless population bears the brunt of the COVID-19 pandemic
Dalit Rhapsody
An anti-caste collective challenges oppression through music / Arts