“Is RRR really fascist?” & other questions we shouldn’t have to answer in 2022By now, Western fascination and approval of RRR have started to generate a significant international reputation for S.S. Rajamouli and his…Dec 12, 20223Dec 12, 20223
On loving those who call themselves HindusI have been stuck on the question of what filial love and kinship can and should look like when it pertains to those who proudly flaunt a…Apr 10, 20222Apr 10, 20222
Militarism, Motherhood, and Martyrdom: Caste & Neoliberal Nationalism in Three Filmic MomentsOn Border, Rang de Basanti and UriSep 10, 20193Sep 10, 20193
Caste-ing Desire & Caste Bodies — Pt. 2: Sexual Pedagogies and the Brahmin Erotic GazeI was not planning a second post on the Brahmin Erotic Gaze, but a recent article in LiveMint caught me up with a torrential stream of…Oct 27, 2018Oct 27, 2018
Caste-ing Desire and Caste Bodies: Sex, Lust, and the Brahmin Erotic Gaze[CW: Description and discussion of sexual assault and casteist slurs throughout the essay.]Aug 6, 20184Aug 6, 20184
Politics of the Intimate Pt. 3: The Brahmin Mistress and the Bahujan MaidI was nine years old the first time I remember finding the PearlPET jar of turmeric among my clothes in the Godrej almirah. Flummoxed, I…Dec 27, 20177Dec 27, 20177
Politics of the Intimate Pt. 2: The Brahmin Arranged MarriageThere is a black and white photo taken very early in the days after my parents got married, with them sitting on two chairs outside their…Nov 22, 20177Nov 22, 20177
Politics of the Intimate Pt. 1: The Brahmin Woman in the Brahmin HouseholdOf late, I have been prompted into thinking of how Brahminism is a kind of totalizing project, the kind that is decentered, deeply…Nov 10, 20173Nov 10, 20173
Of #LoSHA and The List as a Literature of DesperationAt the heart of The List is chaos, a non-knowledge which cannot be known, a dangerous demand for willful ignorance from its readers.Nov 4, 2017Nov 4, 2017
Chamak-dhamak, Hrithik-Kangana and the moral compass of the “bourgeois press”“हमारी फ़िल्म लाइन अजीब है प्रफ़ेसर साब, एक शरीफ़ आदमी को विलेन का रोल करना पड़ता है, और मुझ जैसे को हीरो ।”Oct 13, 20171Oct 13, 20171
