migrants

Always the Outsider

Nandini Nair

The idea of alienation permeates Jhumpa Lahiri’s new collection of short stories

One Hundred Days of Solitude

Ira Mukhoty

The rootlessness of family can give you the world

General Excitement

Swapan Dasgupta

Like the Olympics, the football World Cup is an occasion—at least for me—to enjoy pure sport

Invitation to a Chaos

Madhavankutty Pillai

The fallout of extending Assam’s failed NRC policy to the rest of the country

Botched Prosecutions

Shahina KK

A judgment for acquittal in the death of two Dalit sisters in Kerala highlights the state’s refusal to acknowledge its child abuse problem

Death threats, beating trigger mass exodus of migrants from Kashmir

Rahul Pandita

It is the third day in the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, and thousands of migrant labourers from Bihar are fleeing the Valley after facing threats from local Kashmiris

Gunday

Ajit Duara

A movie that is rather too loud but still watchable—mostly for Priyanka Chopra’s sizzler of a turn

The Outsiders

Madhavankutty Pillai

If migrants are responsible for crimes in India’s cities, why are they always from the labour class?

Half Way Indians

Kamla Bhatt

On the Caribbean islands, the immigrant Indian story is laced with shame and bitterness. They are neither Indian enough nor Caribbean enough to be accepted by either community