The relationship between history and fiction is a slippery slope, full of ambiguity and precariousness. One deals in the terrain of imaginations and one in absolute truths. Fiction can detach itself ...

- A term that commonly refers to persons who are socially, politically and geographically outside of the hegemonic power structure. openDemocracy’s Discourses exhibition and discussion series is ...

When Siddharth Sahu was in college, he started taking an interest in the Dalits, a community he belonged to. As a student of history, he was keen on understanding not just the community’s origins, but ...

- A term that commonly refers to persons who are socially, politically and geographically outside of the hegemonic power structure. Who are the subaltern? Do they have the ability to politically and ...

Since the mid-1980s, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has split much of her working time between Columbia University—where she holds the post of University Professor in the Humanities—and a cluster of ...

The protests that took place in late December and early January in cities across Iran has resulted in at least 22 deaths and hundreds of arrests [Anadolu] In the most widespread series of ...

The "re-presentation" of the subaltern (a relational position in the way power is conceptualised) as subaltern citizen is not about the technical question of citizenship; rather the claim is about ...

Having been brought up in a family with one part of it having British ancestry (my father’s), I developed a fondness for English football (the child in me), very difficult to banish later on in years ...

Rudo, a child of the slums, is the inheritor of ancestral shame and the progeny of people deemed subhuman. These “tribesfolk,” descended from exiled criminals, exist in a zone of perpetual ...

The forced exit of Haldia Bulk Terminals, one of the main cargo operators at Kolkata port proves — if proof were still needed — that the Trinamool Congress cares even less for industry and the urban ...