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A scene in the recently released film, The Kashmir Files, shows a Hindu woman being stripped and sawed alive by militants in the 1990s as her Muslim neighbours looked on.All it took to recreate this scene in Madhya Pradesh’s Khargone was a mannequin borrowed from a store, a pile ...

Tomb of Sand is a tale woven of many threads, encompassing modern urban life, ancient history, folklore, feminism, global warming, Buddhism, and much more. It features an octogenarian heroine. It pays homage to the rich tradition of subcontinental literature inspired by the 1947 Partition. It is an experimental take ...

A little after noon on December 6, Rahul Raghuvanshi was about halfway through writing his maths exam paper in St Joseph’s School in the town of Ganj Basoda in Madhya Pradesh’s Vidisha district. Suddenly, loud cries of “Jai Shri Ram!” tore through the silence. There were sounds of smashing ...

It is hard not to have any notions about Pakistan, even if one has never visited it.A country next door to Afghanistan – now ruled by the Taliban – with a government that, like its neighbour, is often perceived to enable and even support religious extremism.I will not argue ...

In 1816, a 32-year-old Hungarian scholar with a special gift for learning languages won a scholarship to study at the University of Göttingen, a prestigious research institution in Germany. This event set Sándor Kőrösi Csoma or Alexander Csoma de Kőrös on a journey that would eventually take him to ...

When domestic politics hurts national securityThe civilian killings in Kashmir targeting minorities such as Kashmiri Pandits comes at a time India is already facing several crises. These include the ever-expanding military stand-off with China, poor relations with Pakistan, losing out in Afghanistan, a crashing economy, the migrant crisis in ...

A programme encouraging entire families to adopt a healthier lifestyle can reduce the risk of heart disease in families with a history of early coronary heart disease, found a new study of 750 families in Kerala.A family history of early heart disease (diagnosed before 55 years) means a person ...

Kameshwar died in 1959, Prithvi Theatres closed down, and Zohra stopped acting. For three years she lived in a kind of suspended animation, bereft of all the resources, relationships and activities that had sustained her. Kameshwar’s death, the more or less simultaneous closure of Prithvi Theatres and Uzra’s final ...

Two days ago, a close friend in Afghanistan told me Kabul seems like a graveyard. Silenced. Helpless. And hopeless.This reminds me of the empty streets and hopelessness during my time under the Taliban’s rule in the late 1990s. People sold their household belongings on the streets of Kabul and ...

It’s one of the greatest mysteries of the ancient world: which languages did the people of the Indus Valley Civilisation speak? Existing in the Bronze age, the Indus hosted the largest such civilisation of its time, with settlements spanning what is now northwestern India and Pakistan.Yet, while we know ...