Of ships imagined and colonial capital
Suchetana Chattopadhyay ‘The ship we could see no longer/it was far too dark overhead’. Heinrich … Read more
History
The Muhajir Exodus of 1920: Remembering the largest ‘voluntary’ migration from colonial India
Suchetana Chattopadhyay Out of the ongoing Khilafat Movement emerged the Hijrat of 1920, a mass … Read more
Camera Lucida and the Erased Histories of Race
Jesse Olsavsky Introduction The advent of photography signals a new epoch in humans’ relationships to … Read more
‘The invasion of the body snatchers’
Suchetana Chattopadhyay In a fractured present dominated by the predatory logic of capital, what are … Read more
1916: A Cyclone Visits Kolkata
Suchetana Chattopadhyay When does a natural disaster take a catastrophic turn? The impact of … Read more
Lenin and the Philosophy of Praxis
Satyaki Roy The outbreak of war in 1914 was a global catastrophe. Liberal promises and … Read more