Subalterns, Postcolonialists, and the Specter of Capital: A Polemic from Marxism
The theories of the “postcolonialists” condemn us to the mere repetition of local resistance with no way out of theRead More
The pop song that’s uniting India and Pakistan.
“Pasoori” is ostensibly about star-crossed lovers, but it’s also an apt metaphor for the relationship between two countries in perpetualRead More
Review: Tracing the History of Punjab’s Nobility
Bobby Singh Bansal’s historical oeuvre, The Punjab Chiefs: The Lost Glory Of The Punjab Aristocracy in India and Pakistan, is undoubtedly his magnumRead More
‘Finally, the day of judgement arrived. Bibijan moved in with me’: Manto on getting married
An excerpt from the essay ‘My Marriage’, from The Collected Stories of Saadat Hasan Manto: Volume I,’ translated from theRead More
We need a new language for talking about race.
The stories embedded in our genes beg to be told. They tell of ancestral diversity that stretches back thousands ofRead More
What does fiction from Kashmir tell us? An anthology of stories across generations
An excerpt from ‘Reply-Pad Card,’ by Dinanath Nadim, from ‘The Greatest Kashmiri Stories Ever Told’, Selected and Translated by NeerjaRead More
Singing in Dark Times: Art and Resistance in South Asia
In a discussion, artists from different countries shared their perspective on how the arts and resistance shape each other. “InRead More
Savarkar, Gandhi and the Truth About the Partition of India.
Forget the mercy petition, Savarkar should be judged by what he did for India’s freedom when he was released. IfRead More
Critical Outsider 📰 21-01-2021
Today’s newsletter covers Tenure of Taliban 2.0, #Indian History of Resistance, #EU slamming #Israel razing #Palestinian homes in #Jerusalem, #Biden’sRead More
‘Writing in verse was at once extremely demanding and very rewarding’: Amitav Ghosh
Ghosh’s Jungle Nama: A Story of the Sundarban, which is in the verse format, has now been converted in to anRead More