Clik here to view.
Yeh Dosti
Friend break-ups are usually painful, lonely affairs. But on September 13, 2015, a young man from Gujranwala, Pakistan, took the unusual step of publicly announcing on a social media network he was no...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Conditional World of the Refugee
[A guest post by Zirwat Chowdhury] What would little Aylan have become if he had grown up? Riss’s recent cartoon in Charlie Hebdo does not hesitate to prognosticate about the future of this child....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Lessons Learned: Susanne and Lloyd Rudolph, in memoriam
Life Lessons [Professors Susanne and Lloyd Rudolph, University of Chicago professors, brilliant political economists of South Asia, outstanding mentors and wonderful friends, both passed away this...
View ArticleClik here to view.
There is a One-Eyed Man in the House
(Recently, I was asked to write something about translation for The Byword, a new journal of arts, literature and culture based in New Delhi. I wrote this essay, which appears in the latest edition,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Poetry Management
[Shubham Shree’s irreverent Hindi poem “Poetry Management” has been awarded the 2016 Bharat Bhushan Agrawal Prize by renowned Hindi author Uday Prakash to howls of rage from the Hindi poetic...
View ArticleClik here to view.
What is Aleppo?
What is Aleppo? Aleppo is a city in Syria. Aleppo is a city near-destroyed by civil war. Aleppo is besieged. Aleppo is a refugee crisis. Aleppo is the site of an international proxy war. When...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A Manifesto for the Age of Orange
We need new metaphors. Many of us will feel tempted in the coming years to speak of Our Leader’s ‘black heart’, to call him ‘The Dark Lord,’ or to opine that we have entered a new age of darkness. Yes,...
View Article
