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Where the objects are, subjects shall be
Jamui. Until this week I could not have placed it on a map. Now I cannot find my way out of it. The screen brought the day in like weather, a dense cloud of despair. The clip held a teenage girl to my eyes: face blurred, hands folded. Folded, because she was pleading to be…
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Satyagraha Arrives Wearing the Insult as a Crown
Notes from a cusp in the Indian collective psyche By Shalini Masih and Ashok Nagpal Birthing the Abject… On 15 May 2026, during a Supreme Court hearing on fake degrees, India’s Chief Justice was widely reported to have said: “There are youngsters like cockroaches, who don’t get any employment.” He later clarified that he had…
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From Conch-call to Choir
My Christian-Indian cultural imagination in clinical practice By Shalini Masih I grew up between English hymns and the soundworlds of Hindi bhajans, Urdu/Punjabi qawwali, and Punjabi/Urdu zaboors. In a predominantly Hindu India, I was also formed by interfaith life—watching Hindu mythic stories with fascination, celebrating Eid with Muslim friends (and learning to be mindful of…
