Politics / Members-only Prison writing sheds harsh light on our states and societies ‘For, In Your Tongue, I Cannot Fit’, an anthology of prison poems, testifies to the coercive nature of the state and society – yet its under-representation of regional poets speaks of wider exclusions By Sharmila Purkayastha / 19 Jan 2024
Comment / Members-only Where is Sodi Shambo? One woman’s harrowing ordeal in Chhattisgarh reveals the nature and functioning of India's repressive state apparatus. By Sharmila Purkayastha / 16 Oct 2014