From India and Canada’s Quebec to the Netherlands, what does the metaphor of ‘slavery’ disguise?

To say one was enslaved seems to diagnose present wrongs, yet dims moral accountability.

Ajay Gandhi

· Jan 22, 2023 · 11:30 am

Why Emperor Ashoka still matters: Historian Nayanjot Lahiri and vocalist TM Krishna in conversation

Reflections on the nature of remembering and perpetuating the ruler from the third century BCE and the link between the past and the present.

Nayanjot Lahiri

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TM Krishna

· Sep 07, 2022 · 11:30 am

How refugees from Sindh rebuilt their lives – and India – after Partition

The community’s many losses and the distortion of their history is only now being acknowledged.

Saaz Aggarwal

· Aug 13, 2022 · 06:30 am

Humans were built to remember only important things. The internet is disturbing that balance

For the first time in human history, remembering is the default – simple, easy and seemingly free – and forgetting is hard.

Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, The Conversation

· Jul 30, 2019 · 11:30 pm

‘They died with stones in their mouths’: Hiroshima’s last survivors tell their stories

Though it causes great personal pain, Hiroshima's last remaining orphans still want the world to hear their stories, 75 years on.

Elizabeth Chappell, The Conversation

· Jan 05, 2019 · 09:30 pm

Calcutta must take urgent steps to save its historic neighbourhoods from real-estate developers

Leading cultural lights urge the authorities to act immediately to preserve the city's 'collective inheritance and history'.

Amit Chaudhuri and others

· May 10, 2015 · 08:30 am