All posts by Shubhra Sharma
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What has the “nation” got to do with it? A Case of Sedition
Someone has to access this history just so he/she/they may wrestle to the ground this troubling concept, one that carries within it two dangerous strains—colonialism...
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No One’s Daughter
Last week in class, we watched Queen, a Bollywood film about a middle-class Indian woman who, after she is jilted by her fiancé, decides to...
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Shitty Justice: Environmental Injustice in India —Part 2
I begin again with questions (I hope you remember this is still an “interrogative text” where there are no answers as in disclosures. Therefore closure...
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Shitty Justice: Environmental Injustice in India —Part I
In January 2013, I along with five colleagues from Connecticut College traveled to India for “Global Environmental Justice” field trip. A semester long seminar of...
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Feminist Theory: A College Forum
Last semester, I taught a course in feminist theory. The primary goal of this course was to have students read feminist theories, but with a...
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A Review of Bushra Rehman’s “Corona”
“I am not that kind of an Indian,” says Razia Mirza, thus uttering all that can and needs to be said. In Bushra Rehman’s new...
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An Open Letter to the Prime Minister of India
Mr. Prime Minister: I read today that you were “disturbed” about the rape of another child in Delhi, a five-year-old girl. My question to you...
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Shades of Darkness—And Now A Sliver of Light
Today, January 26, 2013, marks India’s 64th anniversary as a republic. It is not an old republic if seen in “nation” years but definitely old...
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Shades of Darkness
In this globalizing world made possible largely through the social media, it is not difficult to follow what is happening in any part of the...
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For Vijay
Dear Mummy, Thank you for living life with such joy even when life itself has not be generous to you. Thank you for teaching us...