topic: India

Houses in small towns have strange nicknames. My parents' house, for instance, is known to the residents of the locality as White House –...

On Tuesday, September 1, the rains came. By the next day, much of the city of Srinagar in the Indian-controlled region of Jammu and Kashmir...

10 May 2014, Saturday It is two days after the parliamentary elections in North Kasmir. There has been stone-throwing in Sopore, and many...

Amit Chaudhuri first came into public light with his collection of short stories, A Strange and Sublime Address which featured a young boy'...

Fashion's penchant for glamorizing horrible things reached new lows this week. Mumbai fashion photographer Raj Shetye's latest series,...

Originally published in Countercurrents . Bihurama Ganju, a resident of Gurunjuli village along the Assam-Arunchal border, was beaten to...

At the time of gloaming on the evening of 18 May 2014, Narendra Modi, the then Prime Minister-to-be of India spoke into the microphone on...

Violence founds and preserves the state. Monopoly over the legal use of violence is, Max Weber reminds us, indispensable to all modern...