Book Excerpt: Between Dreams and Ghosts: Indian Migration and Middle Eastern Oil by Andrea Wright
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When Persian was an Indian Language: The Fables of Jameh ul-Tamseel from Medieval Hyderabad to Modern Iran
By Alex Shams. Alex is a writer and PhD student of Anthropology at the University of Chicago whose work focusesContinue Reading
Kannada Modernism in Hyderabad: 5 Poems by K.V. Tirumalesh
By S. Jayasrinivasa Rao. Jayasrinivasa Rao translates across Kannada and English. His translations of K. V. Tirumalesh’s “Hyderabad Poems” haveContinue Reading
Extrajudicial Killings in India, Then and Now: Revisiting the work of K. Balagopal
By Jinee Lokaneeta. Jinee is Professor of Political Science & International Relations at Drew University. She is the author ofContinue Reading
Who is Saibinn Mai for the Bombay Catholics?
By Elroy Pinto. Elroy is an independent filmmaker, researcher, and writer based in Mumbai. His first short film-essay, Kaifiyat (2019)Continue Reading
A Semiotic Storm: The Afterlife of Sir Arthur Cotton
By Gautam Pemmaraju. Gautam is a Mumbai-based independent filmmaker, writer, and researcher working in the areas of history, literature, andContinue Reading
Found Objects: From Colonial Libraries to Postcolonial Archives
By Sravanthi Kollu. Sravanthi is a Postdoctoral Associate at Kilachand Honors College, Boston University. She writes on literature, history, andContinue Reading
Migrant Photographs and Fantasies of the Persian Gulf
By Mohamed Shafeeq Karinkurayil. Mohamed is Assistant Professor at Manipal Centre for Humanities, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), Karnataka.Continue Reading
Fatima Alam Ali’s Intimate Glimpses of Hyderabad’s Mid-century Urdu Writers
By Nazia Akhtar. Nazia is Assistant Professor of Literature at the International Institute of Information Technology, Gachibowli-Hyderabad. Her research interests includeContinue Reading
When Princely Hyderabad Looked to Imperial Tokyo
By Tariq Sheikh. Tariq is Assistant Professor of Japanese Studies at the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. His researchContinue Reading