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A Hunger that Ravaged Bengal
Chapter from History on Starvation as a War Crime
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February 2024

Awakening from the Colonial Dream
Nilgiris Journal | Part-2
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January 2024

A Road to Infinity
Nilgiris Journal | Part-1
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December 2023

Ode to the Tea Gatherers
Spilling the Unpalatable Truth
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August 2023

Shards of Broken Shackles
Reflecting on India's 77th Year of freedom from the British Raj
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August 2022

Pocketful of Hexes
Juxtaposing the History of Pockets to the History of Veiled Misogyny
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May 2022

Wings of Fire - The Forgotten Tradition of Jauhar
The 12th-century Mass Self-Immolation Practiced by Rajput Women
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February 2022

Holy Contraptions - A Reverie for Obsolete Kitchen Tools
And the woman who used them
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January 2022

Priestesses and Prostitutes
A Life Spent in Servitude
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Priestesses and Prostitutes - The Forgotten Tales of Devadasis
An Introduction
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November 2021

Fight like a woman - The Warrior Nuns of the Drukpa Lineage
On the wild path of fierce compassion, these women are dismantling misogyny one flying kick at a time
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October 2021

02-Dance of the heretics-The Whirling Dervishes
“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.” - Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
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