Muffled Stories: How the Absence of Northeast Indian Literature Fuels the ‘Othering’
If you have grown up in mainland India, chances are the first images that come to your mind when someone says “Northeast” are scenic hills, Momo, and maybe a news headline about a protest, inter-community conflicts or perhaps a border clash with the neighbouring countries. The missing pictures here are the everyday lives, the tea…
Review of Ashok K. Behuria’s Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan: Origin, Evolution and Future Portents
Once it became an independent nation in 1947, Pakistan was faced with the daunting task of building a nation. This was compounded by the fact that, in contrast to other nationalist movements driven by local histories and common struggles, the ‘Pakistan movement’ was more of a North Indian and elitist movement. It mobilised Muslims around…
Peace in the Shadows: Women’s Unseen Struggle in Yemen’s War
Once rich in culture and history, Yemen has been devastated by nearly a decade of war between the Iranian-backed Houthi rebel movement and the post-2011 Arab Uprising internationally recognised government, backed by a Saudi Arabia-led coalition of Arab countries. Yemen is now widely recognised to be facing the world’s worst humanitarian disaster. With hundreds of…
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