Poetry as Socio-proctology

Kimberlé Crenshaw & Jason Stanley write in the Guardian In a letter sent to Smithsonian secretary, Lonnie G Bunch III, on 12 August, the...

France and Britain went in opposite directions around the year 1905. France drove the Catholic orders out of education and refused to provid...

Some forty years ago, stupid Indian academics started asking the question 'can the subaltern speak'? (the answer was yes. The basis ...

Motilal Nehru was a successful barrister. He sent his only son to England so he too could become a successful barrister. Sadly the lad had n...

 For people of Arundhati Roy's class, India was a small place. Everybody knew somebody who knew your Mummy or Daddy or Granny or Aunty. ...