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  • India: We cannot be selective about the past in Jammu & Kashmir | Karan Thapar

    16 September

    "if we’re going to recall what’s happened to Pandits in 1990, then it’s wrong not to remember what happened to Muslims in Jammu in 1947. Hundreds of thousands were killed or expelled"

  • New reports clearly confirm ‘Arya’ migration into India | Tony Joseph

    14 September

    The Arya were central Asian Steppe pastoralists who arrived in India between roughly 2000 BCE and 1500 BCE, and brought Indo-European languages to the subcontinent

  • India: Hundred days on, Modi 2.0: Its purpose is the show of power, nationalist fervour, social control

    by Pratap Bhanu Mehta, 13 September

    The hundred days is not a catalogue of specific actions, some good some bad. They are certainly marked by Modi’s energy, drive, imperiousness and unerring instinct to dominate the political discourse. They, rather, reveal the consolidation of a regime type.

  • Kashmiriyat: The Death of an Idea

    by Chitralekha Zutshi, 13 September

    Kashmiriyat is dead, this much is certain. And everything associated with it—religious harmony, secularism, the distinct relationship between Kashmir and India—is gone as well. Kashmiriyat has been in the throes of death for some decades now, but the latest moves by the Indian government to abrogate Article 370 and 35A, and demote the state of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) to a union territory, have put the final nail in its coffin. Constitutionally and rhetorically, Kashmir is no longer special.

  • Pakistan: Baldia Factory Fire Seven years on

    by Zulfiqar Shah, 12 September

    ON Sept 11, 2012, 260 trapped workers were burnt or suffocated to death inside a garment factory in Baldia Town, Karachi. The fire was so intense that a number of bodies were burnt beyond recognition, and 17 workers were buried unidentified. The event is remembered as the deadliest industrial fire in Pakistan’s history. The majority of the dead, including 24 women, were under the age of 30. Many were poor migrants from other parts of the country.

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