What War Does to Work, What Work Does to War
Radhika Singha’s ‘The Coolie’s Great War: Indian Labour in a Global Conflict’ offers a radical conceptualisation of the history of war as the history of work, where the industrial-military complex and its systems are peopled and humanised. Today, November 11, is Armistice Day. It marks the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I […]Read More
Registers accessed from Lahore Museum digitised, records of WW-1 soldiers from undivided Punjab now a click away
On the 103rd anniversary of the culmination of World War I, descendants of the British Indian Army soldiers from undivided Punjab can finally hope to have some of their questions answered. On the 103rd anniversary of the culmination of World War I (July 28, 1914 -November 11, 1918), to be observed as Remembrance Day on […]Read More
100th anniversary of Guru Ka Bagh Morcha: When British atrocities in Amritsar caught international media’s eye
British govt took refuge in architect Sir Ganga Ram to defuse crisis To keep the protesters’ spirit high, Guru Ka Bagh Morcha was regularly invoked during the almost one-year-long farmers’ agitation against the now-repealed three farm laws in Delhi. Guru Ka Bagh is a historical Sikh Gurudwara related to Guru Ka Bagh Morcha related to […]Read More
