Chasing what keeps people quiet.
Without climate change to blame, we would have had to take responsibility for our actions.
A small story to start this, a story that inspires me every day.
Imagine the setting, first of all: a village called Bilgaon, a day's travel from Bombay.
If the Pardhi tribespeople are genetically criminals, then those who see them so are genetically colonised.
In 1932, a British army officer, Lieutenant-General Sir George MacMunn, wrote a book called
Savaging the Civilised
by Ramachandra Guha
OUP. New Delhi, 1999
pp x+398
Dilip D'Souza traces his mutated connection with Portugal.
On the windswept northern coast of Namibia, in a desolate spot reached after several hours along a desolate highway, one