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ReligionOctober 13, 2017
What’s Behind India’s ‘Beef Lynchings’?
Bans on cow slaughter have become a pretext for violence against the country’s Muslim minority.
Amitava Kumar
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Non-fictionNovember 9, 2006
A Civilizing Mission
The Selected Writings of Eqbal Ahmad collects the work of one of our finest postcolonialist critics.
Amitava Kumar
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Autobiography and MemoirSeptember 30, 2004
The Enigma of Return
In the largest exodus in recorded history, millions of refugees migrated across the brand new border after India was partitioned in 1947.
Amitava Kumar
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FictionJuly 31, 2003
Thieves Like Us
In March 2001 a small Internet website in Delhi, tehelka.com, revealed that two of its reporters had used a secret camera to tape senior defense officials and political leaders accepting bribes
Amitava Kumar
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FictionMay 30, 2002
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PoliticsNovember 8, 2001
The Bend in Their Rivers
Amitava Kumar reviews Salman Rushdie's Fury and V.S. Naipaul's Half a Life.
Amitava Kumar
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PoliticsApril 5, 2001
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FictionOctober 19, 2000
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FictionApril 5, 2000
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FictionJune 17, 1999
Indian Music, Sans Sitar
I am an artless serf of Cupid. So are you and your mama–but not Vikram Seth.
Amitava Kumar