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A few days ago, I came across a school photo posted by a friend on social media. It’s from the mid-1980s. An immaculately dressed group of teachers...
There is an episode in Kashinath Singh ’s fictionalised Hindi language memoir, Kashi Ka Assi (2004), that goes something like this. It is 1953 and...
If we consider the completely this-world contexts of the temple inauguration in Ayodhya – cameras, social media, helicopters, etc. – we might...
We build statues, name stadiums and write hagiographies to honour Bollywood stars, cricketers, politicians and a pantheon of celebrities. But for the...
For almost two years, one side of the Delhi-Jaipur highway in Gurugram has been the site of an agitation for the creation of an “Ahir regiment”....
The recurring tragedy that is the Palestine-Israel relationship should have something to tell us about the dangers of interpreting human histories...
Beyond its religious dimension, the past decade has witnessed the intensification of a very particular kind of nationalism. This has moulded public...