South Asia Citizens Web

Kasganj is a metaphor for the emerging everydayness of riot-induced violence

review of Seema Alavi’s book on Muslim Cosmopolitanism. ’At the crux of Seema Alavi’s Muslim Cosmopolitanism in an Age of Empire is an argument for decentering the normative claims and aspirations of British colonial modernity. This it seeks to do by reorienting our understanding of the modern career of Islam in South Asia.’

Mob lynching across India - 2015-2017 https://public.tableau.com/profile/furquan7794#!/vizhome/Moblynchingmap/Sheet1

The long-awaited unification of Nepal’s two big communist parties, the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist Leninist) and the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre), has concluded. The two parties have signed a seven-point agreement that accepts Marxism and Leninism as guiding principle and calls for establishing the party’s hegemony through peaceful means.

’Good guys and bad guys’ by cartoonist Cathy Wilcox in The Sydney Morning Herald on all this gun violence in America and elsewhere.