CW: Rape, sexual abuse, child sexual abuse “What is it for, the past, one’s own or the world’s? To what end question it so closely?” — Margaret Drabble, The Realms of Gold Justice is, in many ways, a form of remembering. Memory and memorialization can play a critical role in…

With a title like this, the opening had better not disappoint. And Oyinkan Braithwaite’s ‘My Sister, The Serial Killer’ does better than that. When the book opens, the novel’s troubled narrator Korede is summoned by her younger sister Ayoola with these three words: “I killed him.” Ayoola has just “dispatched”…

The question, “what’s the use?” is the engine that drives Sara Ahmed’s queer feminist critique of use and usefulness in her latest book, What’s the Use? On The Uses of Use. This is the third book in a trilogy that started with The Promise of Happiness (2010) and Willful Subjects…

With hearings that began in June 1929, a verdict delivered in 1933, and another six months of appeal hearings, the Meerut Conspiracy Case in colonial India turned out to be one of the most expensive legal cases in the history of the British Empire. 31 trade unionists and activists were…

Some of my earliest childhood memories revolve around my grandmother’s kitchen in India. In her kitchen, food was not just a source of nourishment and a trigger for the tastebuds, but an act of care. …

“We the women Whose praises go unsung Whose voices go unheard…” — Grace Nichols, I Is a Long Memoried Woman (1983) Womxn of unheard voices and unsung praises are at the heart of Bernardine Evaristo’s 2019 Booker Prize-winning novel ‘Girl, Woman, Other’. It is a book that puts presence back…