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VOL 2. ISSUE 1
SHAH MAHMOUD HANIFI
“GIS-based technologies, most notably involving drones, were instrumental to US imperial violence in Afghanistan.”
THE SISTER STATES
Arshad Ahmed · Chanchinmawia
In Mizoram, new geopolitical and security measures are dismantling long-standing community bonds and obstructing essential trade in a region accustomed to fluid boundaries. These controls lay bare the disruptions to daily life wrought by political decisions on both sides of the Indo-Myanmar border.
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Joyona Medhi · Abhishek Basu
Violent clashes along the Assam-Mizoram border have a 150-year-old history. The recent border flare-ups may appear most visibly in the superficial disputes of state parliaments, but they have, in truth, roots in both militarism and political economy —particularly the illicut trade of the areca nut—that undergird the construction of ethnic identities.
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THE LABOR BEAT
Mir Seeneen
Marissa Carruthers
Jeevan Ravindran
Sabika Abbas
انداز الگ / تاریخ الگ / بھاؤ الگ / باریک الگ
Anumeha Yadav
“The Indian government has been pushing for health IDs with people's biometric data (Aadhaar). It was supposedly voluntary, but it was also required for food subsidies. Health spending in India was less than one percent in 2020—now, the government is commercializing its citizens' health data. Workers are made to work for data without meaningful consent. Many are not even told what they're signing up for.”
An internationalist, leftist literary magazine seeking an activist approach to representation.
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THE AESTHETIC LIFE
Torsa Ghosal
Amit Chaudhuri
Amitav Ghosh
“The most central aspect of what we call literary modernity is that it's centered around humans: Western humans. It's not just that it excludes other kinds of beings, it also excludes most of the species we now call humanity. This doesn't change with post-1945 Western avant-gardism. If anything, that experimentalism resulted into the absolute withdrawal of the human into abstractions.”
N Kalyan Raman
There's really no shortage of Tamil works to translate, according to N Kalyan Raman, the acclaimed Tamil translator of Perumal Murugan's novel “Poonachi.” On the docket: plays, poems, and works by radical Modernist Tamil literary figures spanning much of the 20th century.
Art historian Partha Mitter challenges the cultural purity predicated on nationalist myths: natural corollaries of the denial of both the existence of the avant-garde in colonial India. and the very real flow of politics and aesthetics that allowed for the emergence of global modernism. Indian avant-garde art was cosmopolitan, concentrated in Calcutta, Lahore, and Bombay, but it remains a challenge to art historiography nonetheless.
INTERVIEWS
Ammar Ali Jan
Kabita Chakma
Tehani Ariyaratne
NayanTara Gurung Kakshapati
Mani Samriti Chander
The Vertical
Books & Arts
Huzaiful Reyaz
Community
Fiction & Poetry
Features
Interactive
Uzair Rizvi
Clare Patrick
Torsa Ghosal
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Umar Altaf
Jeevan Ravindran
Vamika Sinha
TROUBLING THE ANTHROPOCENE
Ibrahim Buriro
In the wake of the devastating effects of the monsoon season in 2022, villagers in Sindh contend with the loss of their livelihoods and the ecological disaster that’s become increasingly familiar. Sabu Khan Buriro was initially submerged, but the nearby Hamal Lake continued to overflow. Villagers, distrustful of the indifferent and lethargic Pakistani state, took it upon themselves to maintain and strengthen flood protection bunds.
Furqan Jawed
"Our priority is to meet the needs of people on this planet. Not just workers. Not workers at all." A multimedia short using video archival footage, this faux-advertisement is equal parts a history of advertising & the legacy of fossil fuel companies’ manipulation and a disturbing, singular dystopia from one aesthete's point of view.
Aruna Chandrasekhar
Information asymmetry, shadowy military operations, mining mafias, and the consent, or lack thereof, of the working class in how their information, labor, and presence are used are all tied to the production, distribution, and consumption of food, energy, and water in India. For climate journalist Aruna Chandrasekhar, this understanding, as well as the proximity of Operation Green Hunt to her hometown, led her to journalism.
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