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Stories
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The Surgeon Who Jumped: How Lt Col Farida Rehana Broke the Army’s Airborne Glass Ceiling

Born in Mysore in 1940, Josyula Farida Rehana trained as a doctor, graduating from Mysore Medical College with an MBBS and a…

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Sonam Wangchuk at Jantar Mantar
Stories, Opinion
5 min read

A Muslim student on the politics of being unnamed

A Muslim student watches a protest for accountability and finds himself inside the cause yet outside its language. A quieter NEET story…

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Pankhawalas at work
Stories
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The Men Who Fanned an Empire

British planters, administrators and their households in colonial India relied on a vast, largely unrecorded workforce of servants. Among them were the…

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The Blight
Book Review
8 min read

Cartography of Human Frailty, Moral Decay, and Surreal Anxiety

Book review of The Blight and Seven Short Stories (2024) by Bitan Chakraborty

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Akbar and the Politics of Inclusion: Revisiting a Mughal Legacy in the Age of Historical Polemics
Stories
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Akbar and the Politics of Inclusion: Revisiting a Mughal Legacy in the Age of Historical Polemics

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Less Liberal But Still Democratic”: The Foreign Policy Essay on India That Buries Its Own Bombshells
Stories
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Less Liberal But Still Democratic”: The Foreign Policy Essay on India That Buries Its Own Bombshells

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