A small story to start this, a story that inspires me every day.
Imagine the setting, first of all: a village called Bilgaon, a day's travel from Bombay.
It was Sunday, the 8th of April in 1990. A few minutes past eleven at night, the state radio broadcast a royal palace communiqué announcing the lifting of the ban
Their lives parallel the ups-and-downs of relations between India and Pakistan – ruled by crossborder tensions, fears of militancy, and various forms of destabilisation. Many have lost property, ancestral lands and
The self-realisation of Southasia as a single, cohesive space inhabited by multiple peoples took a beating with the partition of the Subcontinent in 1947. 'Nation state-ism' arrived along
If a border isn't recognised by those on either side, does it still exist? That has long been the burning question along the Durand Line, the 112-year-old frontier
The natural geography of the region, so abruptly abridged by the processes of recent history and the designs of states, reasserted itself with a vengeance. It made so many of
The partition of India was one of the 20th century's most tragically audacious experiments in social engineering, one that denied millennia of history at the stroke of a
"The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world." – Hannah Arendt
The words 'terror' (meaning
Will peace in our times be achieved because methane from Iran is allowed to enter India via Pakistan? Is it as simple as that? It is beginning to look as if it is.
In the progress of nuclearisation in South Asia, India has been the leader in the sense of provoking the next stage of escalation at every turn. In this context one
