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.

The Importance of Nomadic Pastoralism

Nomadic pastoralism makes positive contributions to the man-made, natural, human and social capital stocks of the country; pastoralists therefore play an important role in Indian society. There are…
▶02-Dec-2024
Madhav Gadgil

Vegetable Or Chicken Curry In The White House?

While Kamala Harris’s mother emigrated to the U.S. from Tamil Nadu, Usha Vance’s parents are immigrants from Andhra Pradesh.
▶17-Sep-2024
Ignatius Chithelen
Book
Book Review

The Revival of Buddhism

Reports of the death of Buddhism in precolonial India were greatly exaggerated. The many Buddhisms promoted by ideologies across the spectrum in modern times came to distinctively shape South Asia.
▶18-Jul-2024
Chandrabhan P. Yadav

Nagaland’s Night Marcher: Why Reading Kaka Iralu Matters

At a time when it was practically unimaginable, Kaka Iralu critically examined Nagaland’s relationship with India. His anarchist spirit of inquiry serves well to illuminate pressing questions of the…
▶05-Jun-2024
Varun Sharma

Bombay Stories

Women writing on marriage, divorce, and intimacy in mid-century Bombay provide a unique perspective to the debates raging in the country over the reform of Hindu family law.
▶30-Apr-2024
Urvi Desai
Book
Book Review

What Eating Reminds You Of

When foods become metaphors for human relationships, stories about eating reflect memories of bonding, care, and solidarity.
▶28-Feb-2024
Rituparna Patgiri
Essay

Allahabad that is Prayagraj: The Politics of Erasure

Driven by a yearning to shed the legacy of past humiliation, defeat, and cultural dispossession, we attempt to obliterate traces of that history. Yet, that very past lingers embodied within us. The…
▶19-Feb-2024
Alok Rai
Book
Book Review

The Richness of India’s ‘Epics’

‘A spectrum of political and ideological positions, apparent in the arguments made and critiques offered’, are contained in the essays in this volume on the epics.
▶14-Feb-2024
Arshia Sattar

The Meat of the Matter: How to Fight Casteism and Communalism

Conspicuous consumption of meat in India is often a counter to the idea of 'purity' associated with vegetarianism. An alternative is possible: one that advocates for both animals and…
▶19-Dec-2023
Anjor Bhaskar

Why Are There So Few Women Scientists In India?

The dominant mindset in India's science community has produced a gruelling culture that casts aside a large proportion of women and other minority groups. Governmental measures to improve…
▶01-Dec-2023
Aashima Dogra