She describes strategies of social change in Dalit women’s activism as embedded in the urge to upend and subvert imposed identities of ‘difference’ in a mode of resistance which fearlessly thwarts social compartments and punishment traditions. Singh’s intersectional perspective as a Dalit woman provides a consummate analysis of the power structures that shape the foundation of caste dominance in South India today. Situated within the ambit of transnational feminisms, this book is rooted in interactions and lived experiences of Dalit women in Tamil Nadu. Spotted Goddesses is an ethnography of caste, gender and Dalit women’s leadership. We collate them here for you.Īl Arabian Novel Factory, published by Juggernaut Books So we decided why not mould the ties to our advantage? Indian publishing witnessed some remarkable work in 2019, but a lot of them did not feature on popular internet reading lists. But thanks to a phenomenon called social media, following trends have become a little bit more clinical than before. Iconic books like Kerouac’s On the Road, or Nobokov’s Lolita, or most of Kafka’s work did not gain much popularity after they were published. But this isn’t new there were always bestsellers and nice books. One can discern trends where people only read those publications which are deemed cool.

What has changed perhaps is the drive to read, or rather the motivation. But people continue to read books, whether as a bound copy or as e-books on their handheld readers or tabs.

At the turn of the century, a lot of us were concerned about the future of books with digital publishing becoming the norm of the day. The blind Argentinean librarian and writer Jorge Luis Borges imagined paradise to be a kind of library.

Spotted Goddesses by Roja Singh