How ‘The Button’ Introduced Me to the Violence in Aligarh

Extract from Zeyad Masroor Khan's book 'City on Fire: A Boyhood In Aligarh'.

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https://article-14.com/post/city-on-fire-a-boyhood-in-aligarh-6583b4a07c37f

The World of Village Deities in Karnataka

A goddess once discouraged her devotees from building a shrine for her. She wanted to be left free to wander as she pleased whereas the shrine door would restrict her movements. The doorless shrine her devotees then built for her still exists on the outskirts of Bengaluru.

https://thewire.in/books/book-extract-the-world-of-village-deities-in-karnataka-another-india

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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).

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https://forceindia.net/books/a-fear-that-refuses-to-go/

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.

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https://scroll.in/article/1043379/what-does-the-rashtriya-swayamsevak-sangh-believe-in-and-who-are-its-heroes-asks-this-book

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.

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https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/how-brown-identity-south-asian-diaspora-masks-caste-realities-171535

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

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

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https://scroll.in/article/1036276/a-new-book-examines-how-successful-the-protection-of-women-from-domestic-violence-act-has-been

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.

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

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https://thewire.in/caste/kg-kannabiran-book-extract

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

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/215194/almost-invisible-by-mark-strand/9780375712180/excerpt

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