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Clients and Parties

  Read Devjani Bodepudi’s review of Kalkatta, or click here for an...

Of Chachas and Chamchas

  The Internet has not been kind to Pahlaj Nihalani. As chief of the censor...

‘Maps on our backs/Long way from Home’

Refugee is a political term, connected to, but not quite the same as, a person...

Halfway Homes

Come this May, it will have been a decade for me, living in this big city...

Lost and Found: Notes from a Migrant’s Diary

  “See how your world has cracked. Why aren’t you here? Where are you? Come...

The State of Statelessness

I Farid Ahmad looks upon me with polite contempt. He greets me when I am...

Being Human

  “We do not care— That much is clear. Not enough Of us care Anywhere. We...

Out of Africa

I In early April last year, 32-year-old Amuri Djuma was attacked outside his...

German on Paper Only

Around a shabby table in a sports centre of a university, an interpreter, a...