‘The Fury Archives’: An Alternative History of Women’s ResistanceDeepa BhasthiArtReview Asia24 December 2020From bildungsroman literature to birth-control pamphlets, Jill Richards’s new study charts the struggles of female citizenship across time
Can Art Challenge the Caste Wars? On the Cultural Politics of BrahminismDeepa Bhasthiartreview.com24 December 2020What the pioneering 1970 film ‘Samskara’ tells us as we navigate faultlines of race and caste today
How Rightwing Politics Is Reshaping History in IndiaDeepa BhasthiArtReview Asia06 November 2020What do we lose when major chunks of the past are excluded or erased from pedagogy?
Caste Aside: the Manual Scavengers of Tamil NaduDeepa BhasthiArtReview Asia18 September 2020When it comes to depicting India’s underclass, politics is more important than aesthetics
Place SettingDeepa BhasthiArtReview Asia01 April 2020Deepa Bhasthi lays out the unwritten rules surrounding formal Indian dining that keep social structures firmly in place
