Film: Court (2014)
Director: Chaitanya Tamhane

When Sharmila (Usha Bane), the wife of the deceased Vasudev Pawar is questioned in court about the circumstances of her husband’s death, which the police have declared a…

The Importance of Being Black

… in a White Novel

Living in semi-rural Maryland, I joined the book club at my local library to connect with avid readers. Reading some of the books this summer & fall made me understand the role of whiteness in contemporary fiction. These are novels that have nothing to…

Jacques Derrida. July 15, 1930 — October 9, 2004

Though I type two spaces after a full stop the medium does not allow this. Does not erase, leaves no trace, defers indefinitely the second space. The pause before resuming in the next sentence, the battle, which…