Sankha Subhra Biswas

Indian cricket team

From decolonisation to ultra-nationalism: The political transformation of Indian cricket

Sankha Subhra Biswas — Before the commercial explosion of the 1990s and the hyper-nationalist staging of the present, cricket fields often functioned as spaces of progressive expression.
protest mass rapes Kunan and Poshpora

The republic on trial: Militarised sovereignty and accountability in Kashmir

Sankha Subhra Biswas — The mass rapes by Indian soldiers in Kunan and Poshpora in 1991 cannot be treated as an aberration or tragic residue of a turbulent decade; it was the structured outcome of a state that chose insulation over scrutiny.
Nepal protests

Nepal joins regional wave of revolt as popular anger at repression and inequality spreads across South Asia

Sankha Subhra Biswas — Today’s anti-government mass movement in Nepal did not emerge spontaneously. Instead, it developed as a result of two decades of ineffective and unproductive politics by Communist parties.

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