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The Foremost Donation of All

The Foremost Donation of All

‘To free ourselves is to trespass, and to transform. It is through a creation of the new that that which has not yet existed begins to exist. To free yourself is to trespass. To trespass is to exist. To free ourselves is to exist.’ Augusto Boal, Theatre of the...
Narendra Modi, Kashmir and the remaking of India

Narendra Modi, Kashmir and the remaking of India

Consider the darkness and the great coldIn this vale which resounds with misery. (Bertold Brecht, The Threepenny Opera) In 1975, at the insistence of his publisher, VS Naipaul travelled to India in the wake of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declaring a state of...
Combat breathing

Combat breathing

In the spring of 1943, as the Germans violently suppressed the Warsaw Uprising, Czes?aw Mi?osz recorded life beyond the ghetto’s wall. In ‘Campo dei Fiori’, he describes Polish gentiles riding the sky-carousel ‘to the strains of a carnival tune’: The...
Ending the cycle of violence in Kashmir

Ending the cycle of violence in Kashmir

Last month, 19-year-old Adil Ahmed Dar drove a Scorpio SUV packed with explosives into a convoy of more than 70 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) vehicles in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district. When he detonated the car bomb, eyewitnesses said, it triggered an...