The Best of Dharma Dispatch: 2020
A curated list of the most read pieces on The Dharma Dispatch for 2020
The Shakespearean Mists that Cloud the Colonised Indian Elite
Apart from being a great leveller, social media like sunlight, is a great disinfectant. In the heydays of blogging, if you bluffed, you would be mercilessly called out but you had a safety valve of sorts: you could run, lick your wounds, hide, and hibernate for a while. Social media
The Thriving Colonial Raj in India in Three Random Books
Here is a brief list before we begin. * Heartrending stories of utter destitution inside a slum and/or on the pavements? Check. * Soul crushing tales of a poor AIDS or terminally-ill patient rotting away in a Government hospital? Check. * Tales of police brutality and bureaucratic corruption endured by a