The art of opium: How the intoxicating drug and its trade captivated artists

Sonal

· Jan 19, 2025 · 11:30 am

How narcopolitics, racial capitalism work in Amitav Ghosh’s ‘The Ibis Trilogy’ and ‘Smoke and Ashes’

Sanjita Majumder

· Nov 09, 2024 · 07:30 am

‘Smoke and Ashes’: Amitav Ghosh’s story of how opium has contributed to creating today’s world

Rajat Chaudhuri

· Aug 05, 2023 · 07:30 am

Why Manipur’s civil war is being linked to the narcotics trade

Arunabh Saikia

· Jun 13, 2023 · 09:00 am

How De Quincy’s ‘Confessions’ elevated the (opium) addict to a cultural figure for the first time

Jamie Q Roberts, The Conversation

· Feb 04, 2023 · 05:30 pm

How opium led to ‘the banality of evil, the birth of megacorporations, the foundation of empires’

Thomas Manuel

· Aug 19, 2021 · 08:30 am

In Arunachal Pradesh, illegal opium cultivation is silently ruining lives and lands

Nivedita Khandekar

· May 09, 2019 · 09:30 pm

Punjab: Navjot Singh Sidhu backs MP’s demand to legalise cultivation and sale of opium

Scroll Staff

· Oct 01, 2018 · 01:34 pm

Indians working in exploitative conditions on Italian farms are using opium to numb the pain

Umberto Bacchi, Thomson Reuters Foundation

· Jul 21, 2017 · 08:30 pm

Punjab is flying high, but the wings came from the British Raj

Anuj Gupta

· Jul 04, 2016 · 11:30 am