War is Never Elsewhere

“I’m writing a book about the war… Why about the war? Because we are people of war – we have always been at war or been preparing for war. If one looks closely, we all think in terms of war. At home, on the street. That’s why human life is so cheap in this country. Everything is wartime.”

- Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Prize Winner for Her Documentation of War

It was the 1991 Gulf War that heralded another era of war across the world. They had announced that the Cold War had ended but war, like termite, returns. There was Somalia in 1992, Haiti in 1994, Bosnia in 1995, Serbia-Kosovo in 1999, Afghanistan starting in 2001, and Iraq again from 2003 and then Ukraine and Palestine and Syria, again.
Africa has its own timeline that never gets punctured with peace or a pause.
Outlook’s anniversary issue is about who we become when we are at war and we have almost always been at war with each other.
The world is a timeline of wars and this issue is an act of remembrance of endless wars.

Chinki Sinha writes.

Produced by Divya Tiwari.

Edited by Ehraz Zaman.

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