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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).

forceindia.net/books/a-fear-th

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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.

scroll.in/article/1043379/what

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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.

thenewsminute.com/article/how-

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A new book examines how successful the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act has been

from ‘The Violent Domestic’, by Supurna Banerjee, Nandini Ghosh, Madhurima Mukhopadhyay, and Ruchira Goswami.

scroll.in/article/1036276/a-ne

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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.

from K.G. Kannabiran ‘The Speaking Constitution: A Sisyphean Life in Law’, HarperCollins India, 2022.

thewire.in/caste/kg-kannabiran

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Josephine Corcoran · @JosephineCorcoran
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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

penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/21

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Last updated 2 years ago