Delhi

The Lives of Our Past

In their different ways, two recent novels about living in urban India, 'Quarterlife' and 'History’s Angel', urge us to recognise, in the denuded, impoverished mental worlds we…
▶12-Dec-2023
Stuti Khanna

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
Review

A Disaster Foretold

Delhi's rapidly changing relationship with its ecology has privileged the middle class. The city's transformation into an inequitable and exclusive place increasingly makes it a harder…
▶12-Jul-2021
Sushmita Pati

Naming and Belonging

Did my Shamsi clan “come” or “convert”? What qana’at made my family remain in India after Partition? Our lives are a confection of history and happenstance. As belonging is questioned and citizenship…
▶04-Mar-2020
Maryam Sikander

'Collective Conscience'

To cite the doctrine of ‘collective conscience’ to justify capital punishment as for the convicted rapists in the Nirbhaya case is to reduce justice to revenge and bloodlust.
▶02-Mar-2020
Aurif Muzafar