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...

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...

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...

Corruption scandals surrounding the Congress Party-led government, promises of inclusive growth and job creation, and calibrated...