(Book Extract) Much before she became Bollywood goddess, Sridevi played god on-screen #BookExtract #Bollywood #Sridevi #socialnewsxyz
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A Fear That Refuses To Go
How revocation of Article 370 has reinforced old insecurities. An extract from Anuradha Bhasin's A Dismantled State: The Untold Story of Kashmir After Article 370 (HarperCollins).
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What does the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh believe in and who are its heroes, asks this book
An excerpt from ‘RSS: The Long and Short of It,’ by Devanura Mahadeva. Translated from the Kannada by SR Ramakrishna.
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How the Brown identity in South Asian diaspora masks caste realities
This is an excerpt from the book ‘The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition’ by Thenmozhi Soundararajan @dalitdiva.
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A new book examines how successful the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act has been
#BookExtract from ‘The Violent Domestic’, by Supurna Banerjee, Nandini Ghosh, Madhurima Mukhopadhyay, and Ruchira Goswami.
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The Savarna Reaction to Equitable Distribution of Opportunities
The Savarna argument is that they are not responsible for the historical wrongs perpetrated on Dalits, but must avenge the wrongs allegedly perpetrated on their forefathers by Mughal rulers.
#BookExtract from K.G. Kannabiran ‘The Speaking Constitution: A Sisyphean Life in Law’, HarperCollins India, 2022.
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If any of you were at that Louise Glück online reading I posted about earlier & like me are now curious about the Mark Strand book of prose poems she mentioned ('Almost Invisible'), here is an extract from it I found online
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/215194/almost-invisible-by-mark-strand/9780375712180/excerpt
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