One of my teachers in Delhi, Udaya Kumar, used to explain the concept of the Freudian unconscious with an image. He used to draw a horizontal white line on the blackboard which was an analogue for the ground. Then making a slight gash in the line, he talked of a burial…
In September 2007, the liberal German daily newspaper Süddeutsche published an article entitled ‘Migrant kids against Gays’.[1] The article referred to the results of a study initiated by the German Lesbian and Gay Federation (LSVD), investigating attitudes among German students…
Review of: Tejaswini Niranjana (2006) Mobilizing India: Women, Music, and Migration between India and Trinidad. London: Duke University Press.
Review can be read at anti-babel. (Due to copyright restrictions, this article can only appear on the reviewer’s own website).
Western reflexive thinking about knowledge, culture and science often tends to (somehow) reproduce the “one epistemological size fits all” standpoint of Eurocentrism, to exclude alternative post-colonial theorizations and to ignore the irreducibility of the “ethical dimension”.
The “reinvention” of this…
A Review of: N. Ali, V. Kalra & S. Sayyid (eds) (2005) A Postcolonial People: South Asians in Britain. London: Hurst.
In Roland Barthes’s Mythologies, the last sentence of the book urges that we must seek “a reconciliation between reality…
The interior and exterior space of the writer is blown up in Giancarlo Neri’s 30ft table and chair made from six tons of steel, plated with wood and painted brown.[1] Placed deliberately in Hampstead Heath (London, UK) in 2005,…
