The Great Teal Tsunami: Arise Australia’s Independents
Rarely in Australian history has a governing party suffered such loss. It was part of a “teal” electoral tsunami, with several non-career parliamentarians entering parliament.
‘Our Bones Buried Under the Constitutional Court’
Meet some of the people of South Africa who have held the steps of the apex court of the country for more than three weeks, sleeping out in the cold to demand reparations for apartheid crimes.
Conceptualising Brahmanical Patriarchy in Early India
This article explores the relationship between caste and gender, focusing on what is possibly the central factor for the subordination of the upper caste woman: the need for effective sexual control over such women to maintain not only patrilineal succession but also caste purity.
The Personal Is Still Political, And It’s Planetary, Too
As we await with horror a possible Supreme Court-ordered end to the Roe v. Wade era, Rebecca Gordon reposted this piece in which, almost half a century later, she movingly comes to grips with her own abortion experience.
The Kala Pani Migration: An Indian Story That’s Hardly Discussed in India
When used in the diaspora, ‘Kala Pani’ refers to the large-scale migration out of India in the 1830s when hundreds of thousands of Indians left the subcontinent to work in the sugar colonies as indentured labourers, or ‘bound coolies’.