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My review of Tabish Khair's latest collection, Namaste Trump and Other Stories :  The book’s structure is imaginative, if also unusual. ...

What is a Dalit perspective in literature? How does it differ from the phrase 'Dalit literature'? These were some of the questions I...

I had intended to do this around the new year but better late than never. I have been thinking about unpaid labours of love, art and so on. ...

A few weeks ago, I was invited to contribute to the Hope Project by the University of York. This is a series of conversations with writers a...

A good school or college teaches students to see people for the good or harm they do rather than focus on their skin, surnames, hair or tiff...

From my essay on learning from the lockdown and the new normal, published in The Indian Express: In the new millennium, I saw new kinds of i...

Behind all funerary efforts and expenses is the urgent need to confront the loss of someone with whom you had (and continue to have) a uniq...