india
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Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Doge? On India’s Proposed Crypto Bill
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Does currency have morality? And does its decentralization erode this character? The Indian state seems to think so.
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Why the Indian State Cannot Meet the Russian Eye
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In the midst of the powerful, vocal critiques of Russian actions, India’s relative silence is loud.
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Hyperlegality And Criminal Justice: How India Strips its Dissenters of their Human Rights and Constitutional Protections
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The Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1937 (UAPA) is India’s primary anti-terrorism legislation that is widely used by the government as a political tool to authorise rampant arbitrary arrests of any dissenter, protestor or social activist whose opinion is not in congruence with the ideological aspirations of the government. The illegality of such arbitrary arrests is…
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How Muslim Women Can Save Indian Secularism
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Muslim Women have occupied a peculiar position in the mainstream Indian imagination. Through their (inaccurate) perception as a homogenous category, Indian Muslim Women have invoked either imagery of communal normativity through the visible invisibility of the black burqa within the public sphere, or fetishized as mysterious suffering figures who need saving. Beyond these narrative constructions,…
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The Guests of Nero
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In his poignant film Nero’s Guests,1 historian P. Sainath describes Tacitus’ account of the burning of Rome in 64 A.D. As Rome was engulfed in civil unrest, Emperor Nero opened his gardens to throw the grandest party the ancient world had seen, as a distraction for those who wielded both power and influence. There was…