After Balakot: India-Pakistan Relations Heading Nowhere

The ‘all or nothing’ policy that the Narendra Modi government has followed towards Pakistan has failed. Bilateral relations have deteriorated and violence in Kashmir is at a new high. Now all hopes rest on new initiatives after the Lok Sabha polls.▶01-May-2019
Happymon Jacob

Culture

A collection of articles on different aspects of culture published on The India Forum.

A Cricket World Cup by India, for India, and about India

"The cricket played by the Indian team in CWC2023 has been the best among the cricket World Cups that India has hosted, thanks to the soaring performance of its players and the memories they…
▶16-Nov-2023
Sharda Ugra
Explainer

Palestine and Israel: Historical, Legal and Moral Issues

On 7 October, Hamas committed a war crime when in its attack on Israel, hundreds of civilians were killed, but since 1948 the scale of the crimes against the Palestinians repeatedly committed by…
▶24-Oct-2023
Rohini Hensman
Book
Book Review

All You Want to Know About Urdu Crime Fiction

Having grown up on mysteries and thrillers in both English and Urdu, Naim has produced a painstakingly researched volume that will also be of great interest to the reader of crime fiction.
▶04-Sep-2023
C.K. Meena

Jayanta Mahapatra: A Poetry of Decreation

'Patience, a quality of attention which is the finest refinement of desire, distinguished the work of Jayanta Mahapatra'. Meena Alexander's discussion of Jayanta Mahapatra's…
▶29-Aug-2023
Meena Alexander

The Delhi Metro and the Submerged Pasts of the City

No archaeology excavations were carried out during the tunnelling for the Delhi metro under the Old City. This is in spite of the recommendations of the Heritage Impact Report and the terms of the no…
▶27-Jun-2023
Deborah Sutton

The Dosti Between Indians and Russians

Sudha Rajagopalan, historian of Russian culture at the University of Amsterdam, talks about how Bollywood films, Soviet books, and gestures of camaraderie shaped how Indians and Russians came to see…
▶15-Jun-2023
The India Forum

The Many-Faced Afterlife of 1947

Partition remains a living memory and an unfinished history; an irreparable rupture whose afterlife warrants scrutiny. If we are to continue remembering Partition we must do so as a portent or…
▶31-May-2023
Pranav Kohli

Tiger-Charmers of the Sundarbans

The tiger-charmers of the Sundarbans have been seen by forest guards and scientists as unscrupulous. But the islanders argue that tiger-charmers are able to better communicate between human and…
▶09-Mar-2023
Annu Jalais
Book
Book Review

History in the Service of Hindutva

For Savarkar, history was a critical tool in a war to protect the Hindu nation. A new book examines the relationship between history and politics in Savarkar's thought and braids together the…
▶27-Feb-2023
Srinath Raghavan

India’s Urdu Press: A Bitter-Sweet Bicentenary

In the past 75 years a community of Urdu magazines that used to be read by the entire family has disappeared unmourned, so too their journalists and readers. There is also now no major Urdu newspaper…
▶01-Feb-2023
CM Naim