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Janaki Srinivasan

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Janaki Srinivasan @janakis.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
My review published in The Tribune today www.tribuneindia.com/news/book-re...
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Putting the Toilet Seat Down: A Man’s Guide to Feminism by Harshveer Jain: A toolkit to unlearn sexism - The Tribune
The book is a clarion call to be a feminist.
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Janaki Srinivasan @janakis.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Rama Srinivasan and I write about this recurrent lament over the Indian Liberal, this time with Zohran as the pitching ground. indianexpress.com/article/opin...
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Why Zohran Mamdani embodies what Indian liberals only preach
In standing up for centrism or universalism, intellectuals like Tharoor seem to completely misread the current public mood which is enthused by ideological clarity rather than bland status-quoism
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Janaki Srinivasan @janakis.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
My piece for The City and I series in Indian Express today indianexpress.com/article/opin... Shared by Indian Express android app Click here to download indexpress.page.link/shareDL
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I go home to Delhi and come back home to Chandigarh
Located at the confluence of three states with a shared contentious history leading to conflicting claims on resources and meaning, Chandigarh’s detachment means it is unperturbed by the allegiance so...
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Janaki Srinivasan @janakis.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Their biggest problem is not that they have not listened to right-wing politicians, but rather that they have passively absorbed too much without articulating their position on the most pervasive political topic in Germany and Europe currently indianexpress.com/article/opin...
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Dear Editor, I disagree: I am a German citizen. Engaging with the far-right isn’t so simple
The biggest problem with progressive parties isn’t that they haven’t spoken to the right, it’s that they haven’t underlined their commitment to universal human rights.
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Janaki Srinivasan @janakis.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
My review of the book The Identity Project by Rahul Bhatia in this month’s The Book Review. www.thebookreviewindia.org/how-history-...
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How History Plays a Recurring Role in the Present: The Story of Modern India
Bhatia begins the book with a personal story of this transformation. He recounts how any discussion among family, friends and acquaintances over the past decade ended with Islamophobia-laced muscular ...
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Janaki Srinivasan @janakis.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Between Zakir Hussain and Nikki Giovanni, my heart is wrenched. I went back to the poetry of his tabla and the percussion of her words. My heart is full with beauty and sadness.
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Janaki Srinivasan @janakis.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
And we are here! Vannakam! (Na na karte idhar hum aa hi gaye)
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