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“Rather than viewing women as merely self-sacrificial or asexual freedom fighters, in Tagore’s theatre, women could be seen as artists.” As Prarthana Purkayastha notes in Choreographing gender in Colonial Bengal, Rabindranath Tagore’s dance-dramas offered Bengali women a rare

How strong is India’s economy—beneath the headlines? In this episode of The India Briefing, hosts Mukulika Banerjee and Pragya Tiwari ask former Chief Economic Advisor Arvind Subramanian the big questions—on growth, inequality, unemployment, regional divides, and more. Tune in -

As India finalises its trade agreement with the UK and takes on terror in an escalating war like situation with Pakistan, Arvind Subramanian reminds us that the best foreign policy is 10% growth. Listen to the podcast here: open.spotify.com/episode/0PDtmZ…

2 months before terror attack in Kashmir, a top US space tech co. saw unprecedented spike in orders for high-resolution satellite images of Pahalgam, by the company’s new partner: a Pak based geo-spatial company. Cracker of a story by Soumya Pillai

Devastating news from Rajouri. We have lost a dedicated officer of the J&K Administration Services. Just yesterday he was accompanying the Deputy CM around the district & attended the online meeting I chaired. Today the residence of the officer was hit by Pak shelling as they

The politics of labelling never fails to appal. Western ‘liberal’ media like CNN and FT will not question the premise that Israel is fighting terror and call American invasions wars against terror but are hell bent on portraying India’s military response to terror as a conflict

Thinking of generations of Pakistani leaders who have expressed grave concerns over the human rights of Kashmiris living in India as I read this.

In the final phase of the 1971 India–Pakistan war, the United States deployed the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Enterprise to the Bay of Bengal as part of the Seventh Fleet. This naval movement, ordered by President Nixon and National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger,

So the IMF loan was a bargaining tool?

On 17 December 1971, a day after Pakistan’s surrender in Dacca, an Indian Army officer intervened to prevent the possible execution of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s family by a retreating Pakistani contingent. Following Pakistan’s defeat in the eastern theatre and the surrender of Lt

The trillion dollar question - Is India the world’s fastest growing economy? We ask Arvind Subramanian in the last episode of this season. Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/0PDtmZ… Pragya Tiwari Mukulika Banerjee

Was war ever just in the ancient Indian imagination? Long before “Just War theory” became an academic field in the West, the Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa laid out a nuanced ethical framework for warfare—embedded not in abstract principles, but in narrative. In his 2012 paper, Violence in

The continuing attacks on the Prosecutor’s office and the Prosecutor are to ensure that the prosecutions in Israel and Russia are scuttled and the court is returned to politically convenient cases in the Global South.

Krapp's Last Tape This is Samuel Beckett's great work. It's where he masters the stage (and how) I've seen 19 versions of this play, but somehow Beckett's carefully chosen words are always out of grasp Listen to Harold Pinter (A Baap!) giving it a shot youtu.be/1IUDUMkTva8?si…

India Briefing is an absolutely must listen and watch podcast on India by Mukulika Banerjee and Pragya Tiwari. Arvind Subramanian gives some great insights into the Indian economy, what we are doing right, ways to growth & most important how many policy drivers are with the states.

A story of a lost Bombay and its working class communities. Beautifully written by Pragya Tiwari scroll.in/article/108264…

I am yet to come across a contemporary Indian play that I love as much as Ramu Ramanathan 's Cotton 56, Polyester 84. The play has finally been published and is available to buy and read. It was an honour to write an accompanying essay about the play in the book.

Delhi, meet the Cholas. I'll be in conversation with the erudite Rishi Majumder of Indian History Collective the coming Tuesday, May 27, at Alliance française de Delhi . We'll be talking about the world of medieval South India: politics, society, architecture, gender. juggernautbooks Chiki Sarkar

A Muslim princess at the Delhi court fell in love with a Hindu God. According to the Koyil Oluku (temple chronicle), when Malik Kafur’s forces raided Srirangam under the Delhi Sultanate, they carried away the image of Azhagiya Manavalan , the “Handsome Bridegroom,” and stored it

Imagine running an empire of millions—without newspapers, radio, or WhatsApp. In the third century BCE, Aśoka, emperor of the Mauryan dynasty, issued edicts across the Indian subcontinent that were more than royal proclamations. As Romila Thapar demonstrates in Aśoka and the