Tariq Mir Kashmir: Crackdowns and Plunder By revoking Kashmir’s semiautonomous status, India has launched a settler-colonial project. July 21, 2024
Ratik Asokan The Long Struggle of India’s Sanitation Workers For centuries, the caste system has forced Dalit laborers to handle human waste in deadly conditions. Now they are rising up. August 24, 2023
Nawal Arjini Democracy in Concrete An exhibition of postcolonial architecture in South Asia looks back with nostalgia at modernism’s promise of social progress. June 26, 2022
Bill Spindle On the Grid in Leisang With every village in India electrified, the country’s challenge will be to meet growing energy demand with renewable sources. But can it afford to give up fossil fuels? June 22, 2022
Muhammad Idrees Ahmad Pakistan: Missing Piece in America’s Afghan Puzzle Even the post-mortems on the intervention in Afghanistan have replicated the US’s decades-long failure to reckon with its sometime strategic partner’s priorities. January 28, 2022
Eduardo Halfon The Last Tiger Kullu seemed haunted by the tale he told me of his grandfather’s encounter with a mighty predator. But he had another history to share, one to haunt me. November 30, 2021
Krithika Varagur The Anti-Nazi Punjabi Princess Catherine Duleep Singh was an Anglo-Indian aristocrat who lived much of her life quietly with another woman in Germany. Then she became a savior of Jewish refugees. November 27, 2021
Tariq Mir Kashmir’s Cycle of Death The more ruthlessly India uses military force to make its regional power plays, the more ineluctably young Kashmiris are drawn into armed resistance. November 22, 2021
Atul Dev Modi’s Folly His citizens are dying in thousands for lack of basic medical care, yet India’s leader is pressing ahead with a self-aggrandizing makeover of New Delhi. May 10, 2021
Anjan Sundaram From Wars Abroad, to Peace at Home “As I’ve grown older, I’m more aware of the psychological risks we must take,” says the conflict-zone reporter. “Writing about my father represented such a psychological risk.” February 27, 2021