For many of us, the morning scroll is incomplete without that one picture of snow-capped mountains, a glowing sun, and…

Meenakshi Bharat’s Hindi Cinema and Pakistan: Screening the Idea and the Reality (published by Routledge in 2025) explores how Hindi…

The decade leading up to partition and independence in 1947 was a tumultuous era. It witnessed the unseating of a…

Sanjib Baruah’s In the Name of the Nation: India and Its Northeast (published by Stanford University Press in 2020) compliments…

Introduction The nationalist struggle for India’s independence was not just a mere political one. Rather it was an iconoclastic project,…

Mainstream geopolitics and sociology are strange bedfellows. Global foreign policy or supranational agenda in most of the post-war era was…

Introduction “What is the idea of India”? I posed this question to some of my colleagues and friends at IIT…

The People of India: New Indian Politics in the 21st Century edited by Ravinder Kaur and Nayanika Mathur (published by…

Uday Berry’s nearly eleven-minute animated short film Bharat Minar. The Tower of a Forgotten India (2019) won the Best Fiction…

Link to the editorial note and the panel discussion can be found here. Teaching the Social through Popular What does it…