A Family Affair: Women and Panchayat Politics
Originally published as part of Khabar Lahariya’s long-form series “Sound Fury & 4G“ ♦ The dominant volume of patriotism these days is loud: nationalism at the chest-thumping, bullet-whizzing, thali-clanging frequency of films, like Uri: The Surgical Strike, that make the anthem cued up in theatres before them sound harsh and hectoring. No less scripted but much …