Please Help Me: Of the Repression of Women by the Goddamned Patriarchy
My brother sold my daughter into prostitution for thirty-five thousand rupees. My father let another man rape me in front of him for money. My husband threatened to kill me if I didn’t let his frieâ...
8 Years Ago
The Boy Who Lived
PROLOGUE “Tamper with the deepest mysteries — the source of life, the essence of self — only if prepared for consequences of the most extreme and dangerous kind.” Tony sat alone in his study, ...
8 Years Ago
Female Agency in Manga and Anime
Co-authored with DVL Vidya All through this summer I was obsessively following some anime series and, after a semester of Code Geass, Fullmetal Alchemist (and Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood), Akat…...
8 Years Ago
Burundi’s Forces for the Defense of Democracy: A Historical Anomaly or Cruel Joke?
“I was terrified, I understood that this time they would kill every last one of us.” A deep political conflict has been brewing in the tiny, ethnically divided African nation of Burundi which has ...
8 Years Ago
They Change for Votes, You Vote for Change
I am writing this article not to influence your vote but to influence you to vote. It is that time of the year when all hell will break loose. The bugle sounds, the warriors march and carnage ensue…...
10 Years Ago
Peaceably Black and White
I have always felt that India, notwithstanding its many defects, is an eccentric combination of a myriad of cultural entities that just somehow harmonise and coalesce into a single union. The dista…...
10 Years Ago
