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XQs XX - A Conversation with Sheetal Chhabria

[The XQs (Ten Questions) series is a conversation with the authors of new and exciting...

Posted by sepoy on January 13, 2020 · 24 mins read

Solidarity with JNU

Solidarity Statement condemning the attack on the Students and Professors of Jawaharlal Nehru University, New...

Posted by sepoy on January 08, 2020 · 5 mins read

Postcards from the Archive - Goodbye 2019

2019 was a year of changes and new beginnings for CM. Long overdue, the website...

Posted by patwari on January 04, 2020 · 1 min read

CM Roundtable V on Australianama

We are excited to host this conversation on a very important book, Samia Khatun’s Australianama:...

Posted by vakil on December 29, 2019 · 88 mins read

Solidarity Against CAA and NRC in India

Open Letter to the Government of India: Solidarity Against CAA and NRC

Posted by SAFA on December 23, 2019 · 3 mins read

Solidarity Statement

Solidarity Statement Against Ongoing Police Brutality in Jamia Millia Islamia and Aligarh Muslim University

Posted by sepoy on December 19, 2019 · 2 mins read

XQs XIX - A Conversation with Harmony Siganporia

[The XQs (Ten Questions) series is a conversation with the authors of new and exciting...

Posted by qainchi on December 18, 2019 · 37 mins read

9th Annual U-M Pakistan Conference

[The 9th Annual Pakistan Conference was organized by the Center for South Asian Studies at...

Posted by qainchi on December 17, 2019 · 8 mins read

CM Roundtable IV: Sita Under the Crescent Moon

I am grateful to Amna Chaudhry for organizing this Roundtable on the late Annie Ali...

Posted by sepoy on December 02, 2019 · 25 mins read

Change

The history of this blog is also the history of blogging software. Chapati Mystery (CM)...

Posted by sepoy on November 15, 2019 · 3 mins read

XQs XVIII - A Conversation with Mubbashir Rizvi

[The XQs (Ten Questions) series is a conversation with the authors of new and exciting...

Posted by qainchi on November 10, 2019 · 21 mins read

XQs XVIII - A Conversation with Mubbashir Rizvi

[The XQs (Ten Questions) series is a conversation with the authors of new and exciting...

Posted by qainchi on November 10, 2019 · 21 mins read

Matters of the State: Conference Report

We thank Professor Nayanika Mathur, keynote respondent at "Matters of State: Bureaucracy, Procedure and Power...

Posted by sepoy on May 06, 2019 · 12 mins read

XQs XVII - A Conversation with Amy Bhatt

[The XQs (Ten Questions) series is a conversation with the authors of new and exciting...

Posted by qainchi on May 01, 2019 · 24 mins read

Ethnographic Poetry and Kashmir: A conversation with Ather Zia

[This interview with Professor Ather Zia was conducted on March 31, 2018, at the University...

Posted by patwari on March 25, 2019 · 23 mins read

CM Exclusive: The Promise of Bhagat Singh

[CM is delighted to present an extract from Chris Moffat's India's Revolutionary Inheritance: Politics and...

Posted by patwari on March 11, 2019 · 4 mins read

XQs XVI - A Conversation with Aniruddha Bose

[The XQs (Ten Questions) series is a conversation with the authors of new and exciting...

Posted by qainchi on February 17, 2019 · 20 mins read

8th Annual UM Pakistan Conference: Movement, Migration, and Borders

With this post, we welcome Tapsi Mathur, qainchi, to CM. Mathur is a recent PhD...

Posted by qainchi on February 11, 2019 · 10 mins read

99 Nights in Logar -- A Conversation with Jamil Jan Kochai

Jamil Jan Kochai (JK) was born in Peshawar, Pakistan, but he originally hails from Logar,...

Posted by patwari on January 17, 2019 · 8 mins read

Postcards from the Archives: Goodbye 2018

The highpoint of the year for CM was the publication of Lapata's The Woman's Courtyard,...

Posted by patwari on January 01, 2019 · 3 mins read