The Identity Project
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On importing self-deporting excellence
These days, disbelief is my usual reaction on waking up and reading the news from America. The attack on universities in particular is extraordinary, even though I understand it from the perspective of diffusing the sound of discontent over Palestine, and of turning institutions into vassals. Outside university there are the economic considerations that regulate Continue reading
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An interview with Giles Brown of Talk Radio Europe
I can see why they call it talk radio. The interaction is unmediated, and the quiet lulls are a lubricant for conversation. There’s something of the blank canvas about radio—absolutely anything is possible. I might have gone on a bit about the book. Continue reading
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One man’s story of leaving Hindu nationalism
There’s an extract from the The New India in the Guardian. It’s about a writer named Partha Banerjee who joined the RSS when he was six, and left when he was a young man. It’s a story about a father and a son, and the role the organisation played in their lives. But there are Continue reading
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The Journalist
[I wrote this chapter three years ago for the book, but it didn’t fit anywhere so we discarded it. This is a first draft, and therefore filled with all kinds of terrible errors.] “Let’s go to the graveyard, sir,” O said as we strolled through Okhla’s alleys one October night. Sure, I said. I wanted Continue reading
Rahul Bhatia 