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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…
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Dreaming Without Borders: Sudhir Kakar in conversation with Sigmund Freud
by Shalini Masih Welcome to a dream-travel. It is a strange invitation and, and yet not at all strange to the regular traveller into the unconscious mind. It is an invitation to enter an experience as Sudhir Kakar ushered his audience into an imaginary psychic field where he, Kakar of 2022, met Sigmund Freud of…
Shades of Becoming 