The old residents of Dhaka can still remember how once, long ago, all the crows vanished from the city.

Why was black conversion so controversial? Or to put it differently, why did the baptism of enslaved and free black men and women engender such violence in an empire ostensibly founded on spreading Protestantism?

The Trump administration and the courts are building an edifice of exclusion, proving that even as white numbers decline white power marches forward.

There’s an argument about whether Melania Trump’s faux-combat jacket emblazoned with “I REALLY DON’T CARE DO U” is a distraction or a revelation or whether it’s about anything other than the immigr…

William Brooke O’Shaughnessy’s investigations at a Calcutta hospital into the potential of medical marijuana were the first in modern medicine.

Scholars at Columbia University organized a six-day “crisis researchathon” to try to answer one question: Where are the children?

Sohail Daulatzai discusses his new book and explains why the film “The Battle of Algiers” is still relevant more than 50 years after its release.

Today, socialism and Islam are often viewed as incompatible. Does the career of Maulana Bhashani, “the Red Maulana” of Bangladesh, offer a corrective to this view?

Even though it did not get the Man Booker Prize, this bleak Arab tale will be cherished for the virtual tour de force it really is, truly a world-class masterpiece

South Asian workers in the Middle East are systematically dehumanised and othered in a society where whiteness is considered the ideal.

[The first edition of Muhammad Iqbal's long Persian poem, Asrar-e khudi [Secrets of Self-ness], was published in 1915 with a preface in Urdu. The second edition

Cinema is transformative—it inspires, evokes, and agitates beyond its entertainment value. For this reason, cinema becomes vulnerable at the hands of regimes wishing to control ideas being consumed by the public.

Big Man By   Lauren Berlant January 19, 2017 Categories Uncategorized, MiscellaneousTags affect, elections, Trump, far right 1. On Genre Flailing In a crisis we engage in genre flailing so that we don’t fall through the cracks of knowledge and noise into suicide or psychosis. In a crisis we impro...

The surest signal that we are having something akin to a #metoo moment in academia is when my social media accounts, email inbox, and phone go into a simultaneous meltdown with private messages. In October last year a crowdsourced list naming sexual harassers in Indian academia was publicly posted o...

Kate Bradley interview Mark Abel, author of Groove: An Aesthetic of Measured Time