Tattoos: A History for the Wannabe Fans
Making and removing tattoos account for a $4 billion market. Indeed, the humble tattoo has gone a long way from its humble origins in Egypt.
Your Quick Guide to the Gen Z Slang
Gen Z is a crowd different from their predecessors and so is their language. Here’s a quick guide to ease you into a conversation with them.
Tata Bye Buy: The Air India Journey, So Far
Begun a private enterprise by the Tatas and bidding adieu to the group to transform into a public entity catering to Emerging India, Air India has had a pretty long turbulent flight. Here’s the story. Fasten your safety belts.
Central Vista: India’s New Parliament Project
The Rs 20,000 crore construction exercise for India’s new Parliament building has met with criticism. Many call it wasteful expenditure at a time the country’s economy and polity are at the crossroads.
K-Pop: The Success, the Deaths and the Business
K-Pop aka Korean Pop music is a bundle of contradictions, yet it has gained insane levels of popularity across the globe, including in India, thanks to a distinctive blend of addictive melodies and slick choreography.
Gilgit-Baltistan: What’s in It for India, Pak and China?
Pakistan is planning to hold elections in Gilgit-Baltistan and name it as its fifth province. India has criticised the decision. Why is the area important to the two countries?
New Zealand to Okay Euthanasia. Will India?
Euthanasia is soon to be allowed in New Zealand as 65% of the population voted in favour of the controversial proposition. Can it be implemented in India?
Jammu & Kashmir Land Laws: What’s New?
Jammu and Kashmir will now allow outsiders to buy land there. The Modi government introduced the changes a year after making J&K a Union Territory. What are the implications?
Understanding the Babri Masjid Demolition Verdict
With the CBI court acquitting all the accused in the Babri-Masjid demolition case, it’s curtains to a long drawn chapter in the history of India’s Hindu-Muslim conflicts.
Understanding Ambedkar
Ambedkar was not just a leader of the marginalised, but the architect of Indian constitution, a champion of social and economic reforms, a staunch advocate of development and welfare state, and a strong believer of ‘Swaraj.’
Three Books for Your Independence Day Read
Bipan Chandra, KN Panikkar, Ramachandra Guha and Irfan Habib — eminent scholars explore the routes of Indian nationalism, the freedom struggle and complexities of contemporary India
Fidel Castro: The Rebel Who Refused to Die
There is no dearth of stories on Fidel Castro and the Cuban revolution. On his 94th birthday, let’s recall a few of them.
Can Modi be India’s ‘Saffron Nehru’?
The Sangh sees Modi as the catalyst in its efforts to transform the old Nehruvian scular India into a religious-cultural republic.
How Ayodhya Aided the Ascent of BJP
Ever since the BJP decided to back the movement to build Ram Mandir at the site where Babri Masjid stood, its political fortunes were on an upswing.
Is Hagia Sophia Turkey’s Babri Masjid Moment?
If the Ramjanmabhumi movement marked an era of the rise of Hindutva revivalism in India, the conversion of Hagia Sophia into a mosque opens a new chapter in Turkey’s Islamist revivalism.
‘Malabar Rebellion was Part of a Global Historical Canvas’
Known for his studies into Indian Ocean culture, and Islam’s legal and intellectual histories, Mahmood Kooria is a researcher with Leiden University. An assistant professor at Ashoka University, Kooria talks to Number13 about the context and legacy of the Malabar rebellion.
Who was Variyan Kunnathu Kunjahammed Haji?
The leader of the 1921 Malabar Rebellion, Variyan Kunnathu Kunjahammed Haji established a short-lived sovereign state independent of the British Empire and fought the Raj for six months through guerrilla warfare
‘The Idea of Modern India is Democracy’
One of the most celebrated young historians of the country, Manu S. Pillai talks to Number13 about his writings, the idea of India; his concept of power; what he reads; and a lot more
The Death of George Floyd
The Black man who died under the knee of a White police officer in Minneapolis is the representative of millions of Americans living under the yoke of structural racism
What’s Happening on Sino-India Borders?
With India’s patrolling capabilities along the LAC rising and China’s growing assertiveness on the border, tensions are bound to rise unless the disputes are settled, say former diplomats