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    • Aug 23
    • 7 min

    (The White Review) The Orders Were to Rape You

    (content warning: rape) THE TRAITOR WHO IS THE WRITER This is an essay about writing and trauma. This is an essay about violence: of men,...
    • Aug 23
    • 3 min

    (Guernica) The Poetry of Female Fighters

    Seven years ago, on a chilly fall weekend in London, I wandered into an Oxfam second-hand bookshop in Walthamstow along with a man I was ...
    • Jun 24
    • 5 min

    The Fall of the Berlin Wall (Munich Literature Festival)

    9 November 1989. Berlin. The fall of the wall, the fall of the wall, the fall of the wall. Depending on the interpreter-copywriter: the d...
    • Jan 17
    • 3 min

    (The Guardian) Indian police killing rape suspects is not justice, it’s just more toxic masculinity

    On 27 November, a group of men raped, smothered and then burned the body of a vet in her 20s near the Indian city of Hyderabad. The polic...
    • May 15, 2019
    • 5 min

    (New York Times Op-Ed) Dalits under Modi

    Corruption scandals surrounding the Congress Party-led government, promises of inclusive growth and job creation, and calibrated anti-Mus...
    • Aug 24, 2018
    • 4 min

    (Time) V.S. Naipaul Leaves Behind a Formidable Body of Work—and a Troubling Legacy

    It may once have been taken for granted that writing about the far-flung world—like exploring, subjugating and enslaving huge swaths of i...
    • Jan 16, 2018
    • 5 min

    (Daily Vox) Sending the pigs to slaughter

    “We believe that the freedom to say “no” to a sexual proposition cannot exist without the freedom to bother.” – 100 French women respondi...
    • Aug 15, 2017
    • 2 min

    (Financial Times) Mother India: the missing women’s revolution

    In these moments of self-congratulatory glory, as India celebrates 70 years of existence as a free nation, shouldn’t we Indian women stic...
    • Aug 10, 2017
    • 4 min

    (Al Jazeera) To be an Indian Patriot

    Recently, the vice chancellor of India's most prominent educational institution, the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) announced plans to...
    • Jan 6, 2017
    • 4 min

    (Al Jazeera) Bengaluru attacks: Misogyny by night and day

    The mass molestation of women in Bengaluru during the midnight celebrations at New Year brings to mind the similar outrageous incident th...
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