Eleventh Column

Miseries of India’s Construction Workers Won’t End, Thanks To a Lax Protection Regime

Kingshuk Sarkar - September 20, 2020

Construction workers contribute significantly to the national formal economy, but themselves remain perennially informal. This needs to change.

Religious Tourism Between India and Pakistan Can Open New Doors to Peace

Tridivesh Singh Maini - September 20, 2020

Projects like the Baba Guru Nanak International University and Kartarpur Corridor for Sikh pilgrims can build bridges between the conflicting nations.

Amir Khusrau, AR Rahman, Ebrahim Alkazi: Three Ways of Being Indian

Umar Nizarudeen - September 17, 2020

The three legends have come to signify the centripetal and centrifugal currents in Indian cosmopolitanism - an impulse that seems to be fast disappearing today.

“Cinema Will Help Us Survive”: Five Assamese Filmmakers on the COVID-19 Crisis

Cinema Jyotirmoy Talukdar - June 8, 2020

A new wave of Assamese cinema had just taken off when the COVID-19 crisis hit. Five prominent filmmakers talk about the damages caused and what the future looks like.

As Teaching Moves Online, Gender and Class Divides Flare Up Like Never Before

Education Pooja Kalita - July 14, 2020

In India, online teaching, the new normal during COVID-19, is enmeshed in a web of gender relations and class distinctions.

COVID-19 in the Middle East: Is This Pandemic a Health Crisis or a War?

COVID-19 Saoussen Ben Cheikh - April 26, 2020

Governments in the Middle East are deploying the language and infrastructure of war in their COVID-19 response strategies, often resulting in overreach.