“For so many Indians, the events at Pahalgam is when history begins. Never mind 500,000 troops occupying Kashmiris. Never mind mass graves, enforced disappearances, torture camps...
India’s narrative of peace in Kashmir is as hollow as it is dangerous. This façade of calm, presented as a triumph of governance, crumbles under the...
The end, when it came, was swift. Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s latest, longest, and most lethal stint in power (2008-24) ended with an ignominious flight,...
It has been a half-century since one of the most remarkable struggles for autonomy by a Muslim minority began, in what is now the Philippines’ southwestern...
As Bangladesh reflects on passing another Victory Day on December 16, the nation stands at a critical juncture, confronting some of the most challenging moments in...
In the four years following India’s revocation of the special status of the Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir, Delhi’s most significant action in asserting its authority over...
Authored by Umran Khan ‘There is no more significant pointer to the character of a society than the kind of history it writes or fails to...
The Arab Spring of 2011 was a pivotal moment that shook the foundations of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). The Egyptian Revolution, in particular,...
What a shameful contrast there is between the November 2022 G20 summit in Bali, Indonesia and the upcoming Indian-sponsored G20 summit to be held in Srinagar,...
This is a review of the book Hostile Homelands authored by Azad Essa, and published by Pluto Press in February 2023. Writing history is a conflict...