Culture

History / Excerpt Heavy demand for a bestselling draft Constitution Rohit De, Ornit Shani
Literature / Books Bookshelf - November 2025
History / Essay Where the postcolonial Left meets the Hindu Right Meera Nanda
Literature / Excerpt An excerpt from Mother Mary Comes to Me Arundhati Roy
History / Excerpt Paperwork and citizenship in postwar South Asia Kalyani Ramnath
Literature / Bookshelf Bookshelf - September 2025
Literature / Books Writing in the aftermath of the Police Action in Hyderabad Nandhanaa PJ
History / Excerpt The rise of reading rooms across Madras State Vignesh Rajahmani
History / Excerpt How slave-trafficking helped fuel French imperialism in India Robert Ivermee
Film / Interview Honey Trehan on fighting with the censor board for Punjab ’95 Jatinder Kaur Tur
Literature / Bookshelf Bookshelf - August 2025
Literature / Books How Cyrus Mistry replaces drama with stillness Manasvi Pote
History / Excerpt Emergency-era policies and moves to “discipline” the working class Srinath Raghavan
Arts / Interview How to make jokes in the face of state repression Shahid Tantray
History / Excerpt The pre-Sanskritic roots of Indian languages Peggy Mohan
Literature / Bookshelf May 2025
Literature / Books Caste in the campus novel Diya Isha
History / Video Archaeological Survey of India and the Sangh Agenda Overshadowing History
History / editor's pick Editor's Pick The Caravan
History / Essay Retracing a forgotten wartime march Keya Acharya
Arts / The Lede How a cross-border duo are reviving the Lahore gharana Yogesh Pawar
History / editor's pick Editor's Pick The Caravan
Literature / Books Undoing nationalisms in Fahmida Riaz’s exile writings Poorna Swami
History / Reportage How the Archaeological Survey of India fortifies Hindutva History Eram Agha
Literature / Bookshelf Bookshelf
History / editor's pick Editor's Pick The Caravan
Arts / Photo Essay Performance art as resistance in Kashmir Shahid Tantray
Film / Commentary Why Bollywood produces bad military films Sushant Singh
Literature / Bookshelf Bookshelf The Caravan
History / editor's pick Editor's Pick The Caravan