Politics and Current Affairs reproduces writings on secularism, majoritarianism, diversity, and other contentious themes in contemporary India.
Speaking Satire To Power
The Telegraph
Milan Kundera once spoke of the importance, for subjects of a totalitarian regime, of ‘the struggle of memory against forgetting.’ As important, to the citizens of a (professedly) democratic regime, is the struggle of satire against power. Rahul Gandhi has been the butt of jokes ever since he entered politics, and, more recently, Narendra Modi has [...]