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Just like that—Happy Independence

All the past losses All the past hurts All the past murders All the past lies All gone Just like that. Welcome to Independence Day! Just like that We are told we are free. What if: our losses don’t stop; Our hurts deepen; More…

The Nation and Marginal Imagination

The Nation and Marginal Imagination  History is the cruelest of all the events in the annals of human civilization because it lives within us despite the fact that it occurred decades, centuries, or even millennia ago. Not only this, it…

On Graveyards in Dardistan

On Graveyards in Dardistan By Uwe Topper Introductory Note The following account of special art and traditions conserved at graveyards of the Indus-Kohistan region had been written to be published in ‘Aspects of Tribal Life in South Asia,…