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Secular Telugus, Communal Muslims: Politics of ‘Razakar’ Memory in Andhra Pradesh 23 Aug 2013 | 08:43 pm
[Following is a guest post by Dr. A. Suneetha. She is a Senior Fellow at Anveshi Research Centre for Women's Studies, Hyderabad. She is also the the coordinator of Anveshi.] In the aftermath of Babri...
Art, Terror, and Politics: Reading CNN Reading Daisy Rockwell 13 Aug 2013 | 12:41 pm
Over the course of the last year and a bit, CM’s own Daisy Rockwell, a.k.a Lapata, has been featured on CNN on three occasions. The first of these, on Erin’s Burnett’s CNN blog, “OutFront,” featured D...
The Story of Aath Din 9 Aug 2013 | 09:15 pm
Prashansa Taneja is currently working on a translation of Upendranath Ashk’s memoir of his supposed enmity with Manto, “Manto: Mera Dushman”. Below is an excerpt which chronicles Manto and Ashk’s time...
Seasons in the Garden of Fidelity 30 Jul 2013 | 03:18 pm
by Francesca Recchia, gchat status: Kabul. From Baburnama, depicts the Mughal emperor Babur (1483–1530) superintending the laying-out of the Garden of Fidelity at Kabul and planting Anar. By Bishndas...
Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire 21 Jul 2013 | 05:25 pm
I reviewed a couple of new(ish) books. Following are snippets from the two reviews. Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in the South Asian Diaspora A few days after 9/11, Mark Stroman wa...
Welcome Home Mr. Modi 18 Jul 2013 | 11:19 pm
Narenda Modi’s global makeover owes much to neoliberal democracy and the ideology of developmentalism argues Sanyasi. The global rehabilitation of Narendra Modi is well underway. A lunch meeting in J...
Islam Contemporary featuring Daisy Rockwell 18 Jul 2013 | 09:27 pm
Instagram Islam and tag it #contemporary if you are in Pittsfield, MA in the dog days of summer. Our own Daisy Rockwell will have art featuring maybe bare breasts (and maybe bearded demagogues) in the...
XQs II: A Conversation with Kavita Datla 16 Jul 2013 | 07:27 am
A regular series on CM, XQs (Ten Questions), is a conversation with the author of new and exciting works in South Asian Studies. The aim is not to “review” but to contextualize, historicize and promot...
On the Poetics of Refugee Life and Space 12 Jul 2013 | 01:34 pm
Excerpted from “Refuge: A Work of Memory, Cities, and Loss.” I. Delhi …. Rising tides of wealth tossed them around, these men and their families in the one or two-storied houses painted yellow, col...
South Side Chicago and the Afghanistan-Pakistan border: The Logics of Collective Responsibility and Collective Punishment in the Post-9/11 Security St... 26 Jun 2013 | 08:54 pm
This is the second, and concluding, reflection of a two-part essay. This essay is dedicated to the memory of Michael Hastings. Following the first part of this essay, I want to outline here some thou...
