When I wrote this sentence, the former president of the United States, Donald Trump, had just had his fingerprints taken. The pundits on the news channels are both salivating at [...]
How can revolution have a consequential presence without being recast as the prequel to—or a break from—the liberal democratic present? In post-revolutionary Tunisia, the democratic present became a key site [...]
Each student in the cohort of 15 students I met at Phoenix High1 in central London navigated five different first or preferred languages during the first workshop and throughout our [...]
A banner drop in downtown Yangon, Myanmar following the coup of February 2021. Photo via Chulletin. On February 19, 2021, eighteen days after Myanmar’s military seized power in [...]
On March 11, 2011, a mega-earthquake struck Japan. Unforeseen high tsunami waves engulfed entire towns along the Northeastern coastline, black liquid washing away houses, cars, and bodies in a heartbreaking [...]
In 1922, the year Bronislaw Malinowski’s published Argonauts of the Western Pacific, a film titled The Fundamentals of the Einsteinian Relativity Theory premiered at the Frankfurt Fair. Probably the first [...]
Early last year, I was texting with an old friend, Alika, who lives in Chümoukedima, Nagaland, located in the northeastern region of India. We were talking about my summer [...]
This essay explores the texture of early Israeli clinical data on the Holocaust, generated between 1948 and the 1960s, to pose two questions. First, how does the clinician’s own [...]
Photo by Arjun MJ on Unsplash This essay maps two movements of a parcel of land at distinct temporal moments in India’s development history. The first was [...]
In April 2018, the whole country was celebrating the historic meeting of the summit of the two Koreas. I remember the anxious atmosphere in the house of Youngdo,1 a [...]
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