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When neoliberalism came to the Indian farm
With a focus on agricultural policy since the 1990s, 'Distress in the Fields' demonstrates how neoliberal interventions sowed the seeds of the crisis faced by farmers today
Tanya Matthan | May 27, 2023
“I write with the same hands that carried shit”: Reading Pandiyakannan’s ‘Salavaan’
The Tamil writer Pandiyakannan, the first novelist from the Kuravar community, offers an intimate portrait of the lives of manual scavengers
Ashik Kahina | May 25, 2023
Screen Southasia: Q&A session for ‘Is it too much to ask?’
A conversation with the filmmaker Leena Manimekalai and Smile from 'Is it too much to ask?'
The Editors | May 11, 2023
Buddhist anxieties in Bihar
Bodh Gaya as a site of hidden contestations.
Kushal Choudhary and Govind Sharma | Jul 27, 2022
The catch-22 of collective fundraising
Recent fundraisers for tuition fees reveals continued caste discrimination in academia.
Eshna Sharma | Aug 20, 2021
The quintessential prey
Care, coexistence and predation in a recent Hindi film on human-animal relations.
Megnaa Mehtta | Jul 26, 2021
A new border in the old republic
The class and caste-based contradictions within India’s farmers’ protest.
Aditya Bahl | Apr 28, 2021
The hierarchy of higher education
How government intervention in Indian universities has undermined academic freedom.
Arghya Bhaskar | Feb 01, 2021
Becoming Kamala Devi Harris
When Brahmin and Black identities converge.
Radhika Parameswaran and Pallavi Rao | Oct 28, 2020
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When neoliberalism came to the Indian farm
With a focus on agricultural policy since the 1990s, 'Distress in the Fields' demonstrates how neoliberal interventions sowed the seeds of the crisis faced by farmers today
