(with G Vishnu, in Udupi) Large sections of media have framed the protests by Muslim girls in Udupi to wear a hijab inside the classroom...

(With G. Vishnu, I wrote on how political posturing in the Karnataka hijab row hardened into an ideological stand-off) On February 8, a...

Dear saffron-scarf-wearing girls and boys, Namaskaram! I take the liberty of writing to you although I have never met you. When I first...

When the Suriya-starrer Jai Bhim rele­ased on Amazon Prime on Nove­m­ber 1, it was greeted with uni­­versal praise, with the film...

Sometimes, a photograph arrests your attention and holds you in its thrall. Right at the moment of your first encounter with the image,...

Suhasini Patni interviews Meena Kandasamy about translating female Tamil combatant poets, anti-imperialist feminism, and her book-length...

Oppressive ruling classes in every part of the world have always exerted their hegemony over narrative. In such a context how can – and...

[TEXT] Through the ages, there have been several organised and outspokenly violent attempts to prevent the discussion of what constitutes...

Indian writer and translator Meena Kandasamy has always been interested in intimate human relations and historical lesions caused by...

Days before his arrest on April 14, 2020 in the Bhima Koregaon case, I spoke to Anand Teltumbde. “They have destroyed the constitution,”...

As I sit down to write this column, trying to address the question, “Has Tamil Nadu changed since the Keezhvenmani massacre?”, the...

(First published in The Wire, on 24 Oct 2020) On Saturday, the Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK, Liberation Panthers Party) has held...

(These are my talking notes from my contribution at the 17th OHCHR Covid-19 global webinar on "Descent-based discrimination & when...

(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,...

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...