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… Continue reading Where the objects are, subjects shall be
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… Continue reading Satyagraha Arrives Wearing the Insult as a Crown
