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“Is RRR really fascist?” & other questions we shouldn’t have to answer in 2022

By now, Western fascination and approval of RRR have started to generate a significant international reputation for S.S. Rajamouli and his…

Dec 12, 2022

“Is RRR really fascist?” & other questions we shouldn’t have to answer in 2022

Dec 12, 2022

On loving those who call themselves Hindus

I 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, 2022

On loving those who call themselves Hindus

Apr 10, 2022

Militarism, Motherhood, and Martyrdom: Caste & Neoliberal Nationalism in Three Filmic Moments

On Border, Rang de Basanti and Uri

Sep 10, 2019

Militarism, Motherhood, and Martyrdom: Caste & Neoliberal Nationalism in Three Filmic Moments

Sep 10, 2019

Caste-ing Desire & Caste Bodies — Pt. 2: Sexual Pedagogies and the Brahmin Erotic Gaze

I 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, 2018

Caste-ing Desire & Caste Bodies — Pt. 2: Sexual Pedagogies and the Brahmin Erotic Gaze

Oct 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, 2018

Caste-ing Desire and Caste Bodies: Sex, Lust, and the Brahmin Erotic Gaze

Aug 6, 2018

Politics of the Intimate Pt. 3: The Brahmin Mistress and the Bahujan Maid

I 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, 2017

Politics of the Intimate Pt. 3: The Brahmin Mistress and the Bahujan Maid

Dec 27, 2017

Politics of the Intimate Pt. 2: The Brahmin Arranged Marriage

There 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, 2017

Politics of the Intimate Pt. 2: The Brahmin Arranged Marriage

Nov 22, 2017

Politics of the Intimate Pt. 1: The Brahmin Woman in the Brahmin Household

Of late, I have been prompted into thinking of how Brahminism is a kind of totalizing project, the kind that is decentered, deeply…

Nov 10, 2017

Politics of the Intimate Pt. 1: The Brahmin Woman in the Brahmin Household

Nov 10, 2017

Of #LoSHA and The List as a Literature of Desperation

At 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, 2017

Of #LoSHA and The List as a Literature of Desperation

Nov 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, 2017

Chamak-dhamak, Hrithik-Kangana and the moral compass of the “bourgeois press”

Oct 13, 2017

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