The Joshi Abhyankar Serial Murders That Terrorised Pune
Four art students, ten murders, and a city that stopped sleeping. The Joshi Abhyankar killings of 1976 and 1977 ended with one of the only fourfold hangings in the republic's history.
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Pratap Singh Kairon: The First Assassination of a Former Chief Minister
A former Punjab chief minister forced off the Grand Trunk Road and shot in daylight in 1965. The Kairon assassination brought political violence into the post Nehru era.
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Nanavati vs the State of Maharashtra: The Case That Ended Jury Trials
A naval commander, his wife's confession, three shots in a Bombay flat, and a jury verdict the courts refused to accept. The Nanavati case ended trial by jury in India.
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The Mundhra Scandal: The Scam That Shook Nehru’s Government
LIC's money, a Calcutta speculator, and a question raised by Feroze Gandhi in Parliament. The 1957 Mundhra scandal brought down a finance minister and set the template for every scam inquiry since.
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The Jeep Scandal: Independent India’s First Corruption Controversy
A wartime purchase of jeeps for Kashmir, a contract signed in London, and a file closed in Parliament. The 1948 jeep scandal set the template for how India handles corruption charges.
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The Bhawal Sannyasi Case: The Dead Prince Who Came Back
A prince cremated in Darjeeling in 1909, a sadhu in Dhaka in 1921, and a thirty seven year legal battle that ended at the Privy Council. The strangest identity trial in Indian history.
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The Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi and the Trial at the Red Fort
Three shots at Birla House, a conspiracy traced from Pune to Gwalior, and a trial inside the Red Fort. How independent India prosecuted its first and most consequential murder.
Read MoreReferendum 2020 and After: The Khalistan Question Today
Unaudited diaspora plebiscites, the Amritpal episode and its sympathy vote, drones and designations at the edges, and no measurable constituency in Punjab itself: the Khalistan question today, assessed without inflation or innocence.
Read MoreThe Diaspora and the Politics of Memory
Two remembered eras diverging from one record: how the diaspora's curated memory of 1984 became referendum politics, then statecraft, from gurdwara calendars to the Nijjar affair, and why only an assembled ledger answers a curated one.
Read MoreFrom Ghallughara to Satluj: Cinema and the Memory of the Dark Years
From Maachis through the banned biopics to the three year war over the Khalra film released as Satluj: how Indian cinema remembered and was forbidden to remember the Punjab years, and what the screen can and cannot settle.
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