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Solidarity With Amrit Wilson

In a sign of Modi’s growing authoritarianism, the veteran journalist Amrit Wilson has been banned from India and labelled a threat to the state. Her crime? Writing in support of India’s farmers’ protests for Tribune.

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.

Modi’s War on Muslim Women

Since the election of Narendra Modi's Hindu supremacist government, Muslims in India have faced an escalating campaign of persecution – with women at the frontline of the violence.

A Workers’ Hero: Avtar Singh Jouhl

Avtar Singh Jouhl, the former president of the Indian Workers' Association, passed away in October. He was a committed anti-racist and trade unionist, inviting Malcolm X to Britain and sending coaches of IWA members to support the miners' strike in 1984.

How The Taliban Took Afghanistan

The Taliban's victory in Afghanistan is just the latest failure for liberal interventionism – and demonstrates once again that democracy can’t be built at the point of a missile.

Starmer Turns His Back on Kashmir

By folding to a pressure campaign orchestrated by the far-right BJP government, Keir Starmer's statement on Kashmir today not only betrayed Labour members – it abandoned a people living under brutal oppression.

Modernism’s Tropical Turn

Modernist architecture in India and colonial West Africa may have been introduced by jobbing English architects, but new generations of local architects quickly made the style their own. A new exhibition at the V&A tells the story.