India: Wounded States

Aruni Kashyap
February 6, 2014
I was a student at Delhi University when Aravind Adiga won the 2008 Man Booker Prize for his debut novel The White Tiger. Written in the...
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Saiba Varma
February 5, 2014
The Kashmir valley experienced a painful, ultimately unsuccessful armed movement for self-determination against Indian rule from 1988-2002...
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Raktim Sarma
February 5, 2014
Translator’s Preface Raktim Sarma was a former junior commissioned officer of the ULFA (United Liberation Front of Assam), the most visible...
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Asim Rafiqui
February 5, 2014
This essay is excerpted from a multimedia web project titled, The Idea of India , which photographer and writer Asim Rafiqui describes as...
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Meena Alexander
February 5, 2014
Foreword Meena Alexander’s novel Nampally Road takes place in the city of Hyderabad amidst unrest and opposition to Chief Minister Limca...
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Omair Ahmed
February 5, 2014
Foreword Omair Ahmed's book Jimmy the Terrorist was shortlisted for the 2009 Man Asian Literary Prize. However, it was in this short story...
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Easterine Kire
February 5, 2014
Preface Set in 2007, around six decades after a rebellion burst out against Indian rule in the Northeast Indian state of Nagaland, this is...
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Feroz Rather
February 5, 2014
As Ilham awoke, he sat up. To his right Showket lay on the edge of the mattress, his eyes half closed and genies of sleep lingering over...
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By Anuradha Sharma Pujari
February 5, 2014
Translator's Preface “Surrender” is a dark and complex depiction of the life of Dipok, a former militant who has left his organization and...

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