Aatish Taseer

Taseer, a novelist and journalist, is the author, most recently, of The Twice-Born: Life and Death on the Ganges

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Survivor's Guilt of Watching India's COVID-19 Catastrophe

The Sunday before last, I awoke to find that my aunt in India had added me to a WhatsApp family chat, titled “Mama”—her mother-in-law, my 91-year-old-grandmother. I scrolled through dozens of messages from my extended...

By Aatish Taseer

I am Indian. Why Is the Government Sending Me Into Exile?

The letter from the Indian Ministry of Home Affairs arrived in September 2019. My mother sent me a WhatsApp message of the letter, informing me that the Government of India was revoking my Overseas Citizenship...

By Aatish Taseer

Can the World's Largest Democracy Endure Another Five Years of a Modi Government?

As India goes to the polls, the world's biggest democracy is more divided than ever

By Aatish Taseer
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