Aanchal Malhotra: author, "Remnants of Partition: 21 objects from a continent divided"

Aanchal Malhotra: author, "Remnants of Partition: 21 objects from a continent divided"

Hazel Kahan’s guest on Tidings is Aanchal Malhotra, speaking to us from Delhi in India. Aanchal is an oral historian and the author of a very beautiful book, Remnants of Partition: 21 objects from a continent divided. It’s beautiful because of the wonderful photographs heading each of the 21 chapters, because of the writing and, beautiful perhaps most of all, for the idea of remnants—the objects carried by those fleeing from either side of the newly created border that partitioned India in 1947—and the power they have to tell a story we might not otherwise hear. (WPKN, July 6 and 22, 2026)

Thomas Little--artist, ink maker, alchemist: on making ink from guns dissolved in acid

Thomas Little [https://www.instagram.com/a.rural.pen/], North Carolina-based artist, writer [https://dark-mountain.net/pharmakon-and-the-inkmaker/], ink historian, ink and pigment maker, and proprietor of A Rural Pen Inkworks, uses the lens of alchemy and magic to examine his own work of making ink from weapons dissolved in acid. (WPKN [http://wpkn.org] June 1, 2026)

Suchintan Das, Oxford Rhodes Scholar, on Empire, War and Mass Detention in Imperial India

Rhodes Scholar Suchintan Das [https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/people/suchintan-das] talks to Hazel Kahan on Tidings about mass detention, the subject of his D.Phil thesis at Oxford University: Empire, War, and Mass-Detention: A History of Encampment and Internment in India (1937-1967). Through case studies, Das shows how encampment and internment in wartime and post-war India illuminate mass detention policies and practices so familiar to us in America today.  (WPKN [http://wpkn.org] May 4, 2026)

Nature psychotherapist Jeanne Malmgren asks: can we still love Nature?

* Jeanne Malmgren, Nature-based psychotherapist [https://greenbirdnaturetherapy.com/] and author whose Rx Nature Substack [https://jeannemalmgren.substack.com/] encompasses the idea of Nature as her “co-therapist”, speaks to us from storm-ravaged Sunset, South Carolina in the immediate aftermath of the December wildfires in California as she explores several complex and evolving answers to her question: “Can we still love Nature?”

Tara Lohan: Author, "Undammed: Freeing Rivers and Bringing Communities to Life"

Author, editor and environmental journalist Tara Lohan [https://islandpress.org/author/tara-lohan?tab=book]  talks to Hazel Kahan on Tidings [https://hazelkahan.com/category/podcast/] from Bend, Oregon about her new book Undammed: Freeing Rivers and Bringing Communities to Life [https://islandpress.org/books/undammed#desc]in which she describes the building of dams and the growing movement to remove them. (WPKN March 2, 2026)