Category Archives: History

The Greatest Show?

(On the Indian circus – its past, present – and where it is headed).

[This article was published in Forbes Life magazine(Jan - Mar 2012).] Illustrations: Sameer Pawar.

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Remains of Naxalbari – on revisiting the seeds of a revolution

 

"The Tianenmen Square of India" at Naxalbari(Naxalbari is a village in West Bengal. Because Naxalbari was the location of a 1967 peasant rebellion, the village’s name came into the English language in the form of the word ‘Naxalite’.).

(This is my piece about 1967 and on Naxalbari today. It appeared in the March 12 issue of Mint Lounge.)

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