Tag: Indian History
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Woven with Love: A Note on National Handloom Day
When I was a kid, my nani used to tell me stories from her childhood – about the things she had, the things she didn’t, and how she’d seen parts of her culture slowly get washed away by modernization. She told me how clothes were made in her time – by hand. Sarees, kurtis, dining…
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Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale: The Man Who Changed Punjab Forever
I’ve heard, Bhindranwale was a Khalistani. And yet, he’s almost worshiped in certain parts of Punjab. Which is fucked up when you think about it as an Indian. But, history rarely gives us heroes and villains. It gives us people. And then it gives us enough tragedy that everyone spends the next forty years arguing…