Identity Crisis

‘Is she Indian or is she Black?’: Kamala Harris illustrates how identity is fluid, not boxed neatly

Individuals can hold multiple dimensions of identity based on race, sexual orientation, culture and social class and it can be impossible to separate them.

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· Oct 13, 2024 · 07:30 pm
I looked closely at two famous portraits of Tipu Sultan – and found that one isn’t actually of him

A history enthusiast goes beyond the captions at the museum at the 18th-century ruler’s summer palace in Srirangapatna.

Harshavardhana Yadumurthy
· Nov 20, 2021 · 11:30 am
‘We don’t want to be identified on the basis of our religion,’ say Assam’s indigenous Desi Muslims

As the state updates the National Register of Citizens, many fear that the term ‘Muslim’ has come to stand for ‘migrant’.

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· Jan 10, 2018 · 06:30 am

Why birth certificates should stop specifying if it’s a boy or a girl

The majority of US states permits transgender people to change the sex marker on their birth certificate.

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· Jun 05, 2017 · 09:30 pm
Why India should abandon the British financial year for one of its own

A large part of the country celebrates the new year in mid-April, when traders open new accounts books. Why can’t that be the start of India's financial year?

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· Apr 18, 2016 · 05:30 pm
Dronacharya's revenge: What the renaming of Gurgaon really signifies

Reflections on the guru in whose honour the Haryana government has rechristened the glass-and-chrome city.

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· Apr 16, 2016 · 09:00 am

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Identity Crisis

‘Is she Indian or is she Black?’: Kamala Harris illustrates how identity is fluid, not boxed neatly

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Young British Muslims are embroiled in a conundrum of non-belonging.

Aminul Hoque, The Conversation · Oct 05, 2015 · 10:30 pm

What Modi's government can learn from Assam's 60-year-old attempt to create a citizens' register

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