Month January 2018
Examining continuity and change in the commemorative history of an imperial war memorial, this paper shows that the contestations for hegemony in the present often take the form of contestations about memories. The Koregaon Bheema obelisk near Pune, which was… Continue Reading →
Pratheesh had been taken into custody by the same cop who had harassed him earlier. Pratheesh Rema Facebook Page Kochi journalist Pratheesh Rema’s brushes with the law don’t seem to end. Pratheesh Rema, a senior reporter at Narada News was attacked and… Continue Reading →
by Tania A bilingual book in English and Urdu is an aesthetically beautiful thing. One script runs from left to right, the other the opposite way. In perfect symmetry, the book splits in half, with the last pages of both versions… Continue Reading →
YEAR OF THE NUMBER While the dominant memory of 2016 was running for cash, this year was spent chasing, or being chased by, both public and private service providers who wanted you to link to Aadhaar or else… The dire… Continue Reading →
By MANOJ SINGH | The hospital’s oxygen-supply plant operators had warned the hospital authorities that the supply of oxygen was running dangerously low. Thirty-four children and 18 adults had lost their lives by the night of 11 August. At around 4 pm… Continue Reading →
Image copyrightNIRAJ SINHAImage captionAngry crowds gathered to protest against the killing A Muslim has been beaten to death in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand after reportedly asking a group to stop playing loud music on New Year’s Day. The… Continue Reading →
The FIR was registered at Pimpri police station against Bhide, Ekbote and their supporters, and was later sent to Pune Rural Police, which has Koregaon Bhima under its jurisdiction. A criminal case was filed on Tuesday against two pro-Hindutva leaders,… Continue Reading →
‘It is not happening in the same manner as it was happening during the time of the Peshwas.’ ‘Whatever happened during the Peshwas cannot happen now.’ Image only published for representational purposes. Bhima-Koregaon near Pune witnessed tension and violence this… Continue Reading →
Etwariya Devi, a 67-year-old widow, died of hunger and exhaustion on 25 December in Sonpurwa village of Majhiaon block of Garhwa district (Jharkhand). She lived with her son Ghura Vishwakarma, daughter-in-law Usha Devi and their three children in a… Continue Reading →
Sucheta Dalal The mindless mandatory linkage of biometric Aadhaar numbers to every aspect of our lives—from birth to death, plus telephones and banks accounts—is causing widespread harassment. It has, finally, woken up many who believed the hype that biometric… Continue Reading →