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Purple Haze

Cannabis returns to Kathmandu

Going Nowhere, Fast

by Mansi Choksi,

From The Newlyweds, which will be published next month by Atria Books. For most of my mother’s life, she has lived in the house she was born in. It is…

Ad Astra

by Rachel Riederer,

The coming battle over space

Bent Notes

by Amit Chaudhuri,

From Finding the Raga, which was published last month by New York Review Books. 1. What is a raga? To answer this question we must first acquire a sense of…

Valley of Unrest

by Sonia Faleiro,

India’s unending occupation of Kashmir

Paradigm Grift

From claims made to an audience of children by speakers at the 106th Indian Science Congress, held in Phagwara in January. The statements were subsequently condemned by thirty-seven of the…

Tipping Point

by Tricia Taormina,

In Jharkhand, women take on the timber mafia

A Template for Hate

by Rohini Mohan,

Polarized politics and mainstream intolerance

The Great Divide

by Maddy Crowell,

Traveling by rail through India’s disputed north

Destroyer of Worlds

by Elaine Scarry, Eric Schlosser, Lydia Millet, Mohammed Hanif, Rachel Bronson, Theodore Postol,

Taking stock of our nuclear present

It Ain’t Me, Babe

From actions committed by women that were cited as constituting “mental cruelty” against their husbands in divorce cases in India since 2014. Mental cruelty is grounds for divorce under the…