When I speak English, I am regarded as an educated Indian. When I speak Hindi, Indians always know that I am Bihari. When I use constructions such as 'hence-it-would-not-be-wrong-to-conclude&
It often seems as though the regional in the SAARC acronym is oddly devoid of a history, other than the one prescribed to it by the dominant memories of its
Some time before Partition, my father, an employee of the railways in Bombay, had opted to go to Pakistan when the time came. Many years later, as a young man
One day, members of the South Asian Student's Association (SASA) at Brown University arrived at the office of Direct Action for Rights and Equality (DARE) in Providence, Rhode
History – that mosaic of tales and fables that is generally, though not entirely, agreed upon – will always be contested and debated, often in the blood-lined bazaars of power. Indian history,
Partition didn´t stop in 1947. ´Internal partitions´ have increasingly become the knee-jerk approach to settling what are seen to be ethnic conflicts in the region.
Since 28 May 2008, when the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal was born, a kingdom has begun to disappear in earnest. The departure of the ex-king and queen from the
The current confusion in Nepal is not unique in the context of the chaotic nation-building processes of the rest of Southasia. Yet, the country's 19th-century history was significantly
In a dimly lit room at Punjab University in Lahore, the library staff sits amidst stacks of centuries-old Sanskrit manuscripts inscribed on strips of palm leaves and faded paper. Mechanically,
On 17 August 1947, after just three days of independence in Pakistan, Muhammad Abdullah Quereshi, a politician, published an article in an Urdu newspaper titled "A Need to Change
