They will wear black bands to symbolise their suffering, and will raise placards bearing but a single question: Where are our children? As they have for years past, on 29
Women in Indian Film, 1-10
edited by Nasreen Munni Kabir
Zubaan Books, 2009
In the past, publications on women and Hindi cinema have become, more often than not, treatises on
Twilight
by Azhar Abidi
Penguin/Viking, 2009
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
by Daniyal Mueenuddin
Random House, 2009
Burnt Shadows
by Kamila Shamsie
Bloomsbury, 2009
The Story of a Widow
During his two visits to Ceylon, the occult hedonist Aleister Crowley was inspired by ruins and remembered how much he despised humanity.
They seem musicians in an orchestra,
playing a
More than sixty years after Partition, sealed borders and complicated visa procedures continue to separate thousands of families in India and Pakistan – even to impact the dead. Since the two
Beijing is pouring money and labour into improving the highway linking the Chinese Xinjiang region to Pakistan's Northern Areas and to the sea – even as events in the
In post-conflict Sri Lanka, governance is being militarised.
After the defeat of the LTTE, it was hoped that Southasia's most desirable capital city, whose many beautiful trees had
A story of false concerns and true fears, as far as the statues of Mayawati are concerned.
Mayawati, the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh and India's most popular
The rampant, often-frivolous use of antibiotics over the past half-century has made us dramatically more vulnerable today.
A looming catastrophe … one our planet faces due to long-term human intervention in
While clearly a watershed decision for the queer community, the Indian court's recent reading-down of Section 377 will likely benefit other minorities as well.
After agitating for many
