Not All Violence Is Colonial: The Dangerous Drift of Post-Modern Solidarity – Yanis Iqbal

With the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza and renewed India-Pakistan tensions following the Pahalgam attack, there is a growing temptation to apply the framework of colonial violence (so viscerally visible in Palestine) to diverse geopolitical contexts across the Global South. This impulse, while rooted in a genuine desire for global solidarity, has often led to … Continue reading Not All Violence Is Colonial: The Dangerous Drift of Post-Modern Solidarity – Yanis Iqbal →

Article 370: Calculated Killing or Inevitable Demise?—Adrija Ghosh

Courtesy: Tauseef Mustafa/AFP The piece examines and explains the legal aspects surrounding the abrogation of Article 370 and the simultaneous wholesale application of the Constitution of India vis a vis Jammu and Kashmir. It teases out the rationale put forth by the Supreme Court in upholding the Centre’s actions, the knotty issues about the President’s … Continue reading Article 370: Calculated Killing or Inevitable Demise?—Adrija Ghosh →

Kashmir: A Case of Imposed Utopia—Monjima Kar

Courtesy: Kashmirkry A typical scene in Kashmir invokes in our mind lush green forests, snow clad mountains, a calm Dal lake. The notion of a picturesque Kashmir, that is romanticised, dominates our understanding of the place. Any kind of violence that occasionally springs up in media reports is represented as a kind of break in … Continue reading Kashmir: A Case of Imposed Utopia—Monjima Kar →

The Making of the Anti-Nation—Suchintan Das

Image Courtesy: The Economic Times The University of Delhi, which is no stranger to controversies, has recently found itself at the centre of another. The issue in question pertains to the revision of the syllabi of several undergraduate honours’ courses in general and that of History in particular. The specificity of the objection raised by … Continue reading The Making of the Anti-Nation—Suchintan Das →

Where do our Priorities Lie?—Monjima Kar

Picture Courtesy: Danish Siddiqui, Reuters In this article, I’ll seek to question the readers and answer a few questions baffling me and those around us for quite some days now. In the face of constant upheaval of the politicians telling us through their forced propaganda what the public seeks, there is created a space of … Continue reading Where do our Priorities Lie?—Monjima Kar →