Monthly Archives: December 2012
For Anonymous
That girl, the one without the name. The one just like us. The one whose battered body stood for all the anonymous women in this country whose rapes and deaths […]
Near India Gate, A Blocked Protest: notes on my city
(Note: There are so many ways for a city to exclude its citizens. Yesterday, talking to the police who were there to prevent this small, sincere band of protestors from […]
The best of 2012: a personal reading list
(Published in the Business Standard, December 25, 2012. I had limited space, so this is a very truncated list–fiction-heavy, with a strong bias towards Indian writing.) On the power of […]
Talking rape
Survivors, not victims: This goes beyond semantics. The rape victim, in the minds of many Indian families and some of the media, is expected to suffer a kind of death […]
At the heart of Delhi, no space for you
What do they want? (Home Minister Shinde, of the students) The students in Delhi who were protesting on Saturday didn’t know exactly how to get to what they wanted. Some […]
India Gate, Dec 23: photos
The presence of the media inevitably changes the nature of protest–Kashmir and the North-East are invisible because they’re not on TV, as many pointed out yesterday, but Delhi’s protests will […]
Notes from Raisina Hill
“We want justice! We want justice!” I went to the protests at Raisina Hill expecting very little. Despite the anger over the recent, brutal gang-rape of a 23-year-old by a […]
Executing The Neighbour
(Published in The Hindu, December 20, 2012) Like so many other men and women in Delhi, my friends and I kept a quiet, helpless vigil on Tuesday night for […]
Riffling: Reading about Reading
Riffling: Reading about Reading A list of books about books and reading.
