‘Schools don’t teach us about Indian history or Independence,’ complain thousands in the Indian Diaspora. All those keen to learn more about their historical and social inheritance, should immediately get themselves a copy of the recently published book Exhumation, subtitled The Life and Death of Madan Lal Dhingra, and written by the actor Leena Dhingra; […]
Indian diaspora
#DilliChalo #MarchtoDelhi
The Year 2020 just keeps on giving: Covid, Brexit, corruption, and a myriad other shocks to our system. So – let’s turn the dial, change the channel, and talk about the Punjabi farmers and their hazardous, determined odyssey to the capital of India. I write as the daughter of Punjabi farmers and will […]
The Need-to-Have-a-Son-Syndrome
Not so very long ago, in a Midlands town: a woman climbed the stairs, flight by flight, all the way to the hospital roof. And threw herself off. She had just given birth to a third daughter. No, we’re not in some dystopian world, or some strange twist of the Handmaid’s Tale, but in modern […]