Flood of Fire cover
Chrestomather. . It is 1839 and tension has been rapidly mounting between China and British India following the crackdown on opium smuggling by Beijing. With no resolution in sight, the…
Two responses to ‘Parallel Journeys’
I received many interesting responses to my post on Turkey's experience of AKP rule and its portents for India under the BJP. Two that were particularly instructive came…
Parallel Journeys? Turkey’s experience of AKP rule and its portents for India under the BJP
1. Back in March 2013, when I received and accepted an invitation to visit Bogazici University, I did not for a moment imagine that my arrival in Turkey would…
‘We had to cross many hills and mountains’: a censored letter about the Burma exodus of 1942
Below is a rare example of a letter written by an Indian survivor of the exodus out of Burma, following the Japanese invasion of 1941-42 (a photocopy of…