• Somdeep Sen

In today’s India, stories of terrorism and national humiliation are being reworked into fantasies of decisive power — blurring the line between memory, myth, and politics.

• Bárbara Rousseaux

In revisiting her relationship with her mother, Roy shows how intimacy, violence, and love forged the sensibility behind her uncompromising political life.

• Smriti Upadhyay

Siddhartha Deb’s latest book asks readers to consider incarceration as both a metaphor and fact of life in India today.

• Sushovan Dhar

The BJP’s surprise underperformance in India’s general elections is a setback for the global right.

• Sushovan Dhar

In India, popular movements, not elections, will bring transformative change.

• Shobana Shankar

Shobana Shankar's new book, 'Africa, India and the Spectre of Race' (Hurst/Oxford, 2021) explores this complicated history.

• Sushovan Dhar

The latest COVID-19 crisis in India is overshadowing a farmers' revolt over land and agriculture. That revolt holds lessons for Africans.

• Suvij Sudershan

Working-class men try unsuccessfully to integrate themselves into new economies in the films of Ousmane Sembene and Mrinal Sen.

• Camilla Houeland

Climate activists and leftists should tread cautiously when they use the climate argument to support fossil fuel subsidy reform in Africa.

• Rasna Warah

The 60s, 70s, and 80s are often described as the Golden Age of Indian cinema and Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu had a large number of cinemas devoted to showing films made in Bombay.

• Myra Ann Houser

The Indian activist ES Reddy led the fight against South African apartheid at the UN. More importantly, his life reflected the best of left internationalism.

• Gautam Bhatia

Why courts should not become a country’s sole moral arbiter, how the coronavirus impacted judicial processes in India and South Africa, and more.

• Lily Silumesii

Following a series of racist attacks on African students in India, an African student in India wrote this.

• Sindi-Leigh McBride

In a world of fake news, shallow analysis and torrid pontificating, combining empirical evidence with emotive expression, is what give Roy's essays legs.

• Melissa Tandiwe Myambo

Every Sunday and even on weekdays thousands of Africans living in India’s National Capital Region (NCR) head to “charismatic” church services lasting three to four hours.

• Sebatalatsi

African political elites will continue to use the spoils of "development" and aid to serve their personal interests.

• Suchitra Vijayan

Under Modi, Africa will not just be a continent where India expands its economic footprint, but also builds, protects and projects its power.

• Suchitra Vijayan

For the first time in 25 years, India will be governed by a single party with no real opposition.

• Jean-Philippe Dedieu
• Noémie Ndiaye

Interview with curators Sylviane Diouf (Schomburg Center) and Joaneath Spicer (Walters Art Museum) about the African presence in Western and Asian art.