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Lingua franca
Featured image credit: allypark/Flickr, CC BY 2.0 Guilt can be just as disabling as arrogance, however. The political good which Spivak has done far outweighs the fact that she leads a well-heeled life in the States. If complicity means living … Continue reading
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Tagged Arundhati Roy, class struggle, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, literary criticism, Terry Eagleton
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Caste, healthcare and statistics
In late November 2014, the esteemed British medical journal The Lancet published an editorial calling for the end of casteism in India to mitigate the deteriorating health of the millions of rural poor, if nothing else. The central argument was that caste was hampering … Continue reading
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Tagged Amartya Sen, Arundhati Roy, casteism, economic status, healthcare, Jean Dreze, The Lancet
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