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The 2024-2025 Block Museum Student Associate (BMSA) cohort is pleased to announce the acquisition of three works by Chitra Ganesh (b. 1975) from her series She the Question (2012). The Student Associa...

After Sheikh Hasina’s fall, Dhaka — long aligned with New Delhi — is recalibrating its regional alliances and drawing closer to its historical adversary

When once asked about his favourite childhood reads, the renowned Urdu writer Naiyer Masud mentioned Khaufnak Dunya: Jazira-i Borniyo meñ Safar aur Jangaloñ meñ

In 1931, Italian scholars were made to take loyalty oaths. Will that happen to us?

Northwestern’s Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities hosted a conversation about civil rights solidarity between race and caste, a hereditary and class division system in Hindu society, in Harris ...

For decades before it became a global phenomenon, Dalit writers in diverse Indian languages fought to make marginalized lives visible

For decades before it became a global phenomenon, Dalit writers in diverse Indian languages fought to make marginalized lives visible

WWB staff members on their favorite translated books of the year and the 2025 titles they're most excited about.

One call to a very unusual hotline, and everything that followed.

YouTube video by Sumyshoo

”Translation is a monster.“