This is something I wrote for a website I contribute to; it was to mark the 21 March International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, through a South Asia lens. On 21 March 1960, 69 protesters were killed in an act of police brutality in Sharpeville, South Africa, when they stood against apartheid. To… Read More Racialization
I haven’t been in the zone to blog for a while, but until that mindset returns, here is an essay I wrote for my course this past term. A Comparison of Secular Aspirations across India, Pakistan and Bangladesh Contemplations on secularism in South Asia, from academia to street corners, have alighted on similar questions about… Read More Secularism redux
Today I attended a talk about temple animal sacrifices and laws regulating them in Tamil Nadu. It was a fascinating talk, more than I expected it to be. In brief, it was about the practice of animal sacrifice at certain smaller temples in Tamil Nadu during festivals, the politics of a 1950 law (theoretically) banning… Read More Dead goats, laws
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