Sohel Sarkar is an India-based independent journalist, writer and editor. Her work has appeared in New Lines Magazine, Ms Magazine, Mongabay India, Protean Magazine and Sourced Journeys, among other publications.
Four new books spotlight mobility in post-liberalisation cities across India and Pakistan, showing how everyday movement, inequality and aspiration shape urban citizenship beyond “world-class” infrastructure
Three new books unpack the violent roots of caste-based vegetarianism and India’s dairy industry as Dalits and Muslims continue to be targeted by cow-protection vigilantes
In ‘Waiting on Empire’, Arunima Datta resurrects the largely forgotten travelling ayahs – one of the many groups of Southasian migrant workers in the British Empire
