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Diya Gupta

Diya Gupta is a postdoctoral visiting research fellow at the Institute of English Studies, University of London. She is working on her first book on an emotional history of India and the Second World War.

Who Else Was on the Little Ships?

On the 80th anniversary of the evacuation from Dunkirk, Ghee Bowman’s history of the Muslim soldiers who took part in the operation challenges the parochial memories of Britain in the Second World War.

Art and Emergency

A new study explores how artists and photographers in India responded to the country’s disasters of the last century – and asks what creative responses might be offered to emergencies closer to home.