Anavadhya

Sri City: Dispatches from the comfortable side of disparity, on privilege, contradiction, and the politics of comfort.  I study and live in a university where my bedroom and washroom are cleaned for me on alternate days. The akkas that clean, call me ‘madam’ and apologise if they wake me up even at 12 pm. This university was almost certainly built on land violently grabbed from the villagers that lived there for centuries. I live in a city which is one of the biggest contributors to the...

“Kannagi Kovalanai yeatrukonda madhiri, Kovalan, Kannagi innuro oru manidhanai kadhalithirundhal, uthhama purushanaga irrundhu,...

I was in the middle of a midnight scroll when I came across a reel of a scene from the 2007 Hindi film ‘Dhamaal’ . It was a supposedly...