An epidemic of fasting has of late engulfed India. Some months ago, the social reformer Anna Hazare, whose activities over the last three decades had been largely confined to his village Ralegan Siddhi or the area around it, or at most to his native Maharashtra, burst upon the national scene with a 5-day fast at [...]
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- *Günter Grass and the anti-Semitism Canard
- *Iran’s Revolution and the Global Politics of Resistance
- *Fast, Counter-Fast, Anti-Fast
- *Ours But To Do and Die: The Culture and Politics of Death in India
- *Journeys of the ‘Black Christ’: Art & Resistance in Apartheid South Africa
- *The Sexuality of a Celibate Life
- *Thesis Nine: The Dissent that is Beyond Dissent
- *Thesis Eight: Postcolonial Thought and Religion in the Public Sphere
- *Thesis Seven: The Geography and Psychogeography of Home
- *Thesis Six: In incommensurability is the promise of more democratic futures
- *Thesis Five: The Moral and Political Imperative of South-South Dialogues
- *Mujhe Tumare Sign Chaiyen: The Act of Writing in Deewaar (1975)
- *Thesis Four – Nonviolence: A Gaping Hole in Postcolonial Thought
- *Thesis Three: Postcolonialism’s critique of the nation-state remains inadequate
- *The Footpath and the Skyscraper: The Pleasures of Deewaar
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