"Dhandoraa" movie review highlights its compelling anti-caste narrative, strong performances, and impactful transformation ...

This film gained traction through publicity, with expectations rising after the success of The Court, which addressed a ...

The 'When They See Us' director looks to Isabel Wilkerson's landmark book to challenge the tools used to divide humans, drawing connections between India, Nazi Germany and American inequality. In ...

Words like “important” and “vital” are thrown around possibly a little too much in film criticism. It’s not that we don’t mean it — it’s just that sometimes we (ok, I) can get a bit excited. And when ...

The power of an analogy is twofold: it can make something relatable, or it can completely turn upside down all of our preconceived notions. Isabel Wilkerson seeks to do the latter in her most recent ...

In 1934, 17 German legal scholars gathered in Berlin to create the legal framework for an Aryan nation. They began by asking how the Americans had done it. The U.S. was centuries ahead, in terms of ...

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Kannanari’s The Menon Investigation uses the frame of a crime thriller to expose the deep entrenchment of caste and patriarchy in modern India. Through its flawed protagonist Vijay Menon, the novel ...

Anand Teltumbde’s deeply researched book challenges the popular belief that a caste census will advance justice, arguing instead that enumeration can entrench caste consciousness and shrink the ...

The veteran Marathi litterateur, Sharankumar Limbale’s Sanatan (translated by Paromita Sengupta) is among the most ambitious ...

“You can’t be walking around at night, on a white street, and not expect trouble.” Author Isabel Wilkerson’s mother has likely said something like this before, in one of any number of tragic contexts.