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After nearly hundreds days of protest demanding closure of Vedanta Sterlite Copper unit in Thoothukudi in Tamil Nadu, protesters turned violent, clashing with the police and setting vehicles on fire. At least 11 people have died in police firing.

This was an essay written after reading Venkat Dhulipala’s fascinating book (’Creating a New Medina’, Cambridge University Press) on how Pakistan came to be. After sending this essay to a few editors in mainstream press, from none of who I heard back, I abandoned the idea of getting this published.

The process of nationalist self-imagining in India is likely to remain in a nebulous state so long as the destiny of regional politicians is etched by the calligrapher in New Delhi and determined by maneuvers in the murky den of centralized federalism.

Indian fishing communities and farmers first filed their lawsuit in 2015, challenging the International Finance Corporation, the private lending arm of the World Bank Group, for its role in funding the controversial Tata Mundra coal-fired power plant in Gujarat.

an exhibit poster at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum