Hindutva Pop: A Review
Can a song trigger a murder?Can a poem spark a riot?Can a book divide a people? By…
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Vaidik on Indian Lynching
The perpetrators of this violence have not always been the state, the rulers, the police or the army but also our silence. Our looking away from inconvenient truths, our blindness to our social privilege, and in our ability to pass off our unearned privilege as merit or as advantages earned by hard work.
Excerpt from Adisa Ajamu II’s The New Lynchings
t is a protest against the lynchings of the black African-Americans. It attests the poet's rage against the white lynchers and the state which is in complicit with the perpetrators.
Prelude to a Riot
Set in an unnamed southern town amid lush plantations of pepper, bananas, coffee, rice, and narrated in soliloquy Annie Zaidi’s 184- page novel, Prelude to a Riot is a brilliant, bold, honest, critical commentary on contemporary India.
Afzal
I love this book because it demystifies the myth of communal harmony, the tale of vibrant Indian democracy, the myth of India as an oasis of spiritual bliss, and the myth of accountability of public servants. Afzal is a tight slap on our face! The ugly fact is that corruption, hatred, power, wine, and women rule the roost. The novel is a brilliant commentary on contemporary India.