Kalpana Kannabiran

Apr 20, 2024 | frontline.thehindu.com | Kalpana Kannabiran |Lawrence Liang |Vaishna Roy

“Menstruation is fundamental because it is ultimately about power relations—the power of the guard in the prison or staff in a homeless shelter to dispense or withhold menstrual products, the power of judges to authorise sterilisations, the power of parents and relatives to force young girls to marry, and the power of religious authorities to expect unflinching conformity with religious norms.”Inga T. WinklerPalgrave Handbook on Critical Menstruation Studies (2020, p. 12).

Jan 9, 2024 | newslaundry.com | Kalpana Kannabiran

I’m a lay citizen who has never set foot in the Supreme Court, but has closely followed the judgements of all the courts, from the trial courts to the apex court, for three decades. I’m someone who has witnessed the transactions of courts played out in lawyers’ offices on a daily basis for longer than I can remember. Which is why I am concerned about senior advocate Siddhartha Dave’s derision of criticism of the Chief Justice of India.

Nov 16, 2023 | frontline.thehindu.com | Soumitra Das |Bhavya Dore |Kalpana Kannabiran |Pranay Sharma

The London-based historian of colonial India Rosie Llewellyn-Jones has been writing on Lucknow, its culture and its rulers, from the 1970s. Scholarly and engaging at the same time, her books on Lucknow are different from those by her predecessors in their sympathetic gaze, honed by her frequent visits to Lucknow and her knowledge of Urdu (she holds a PhD in Urdu from SOAS University of London).

Nov 16, 2023 | frontline.thehindu.com | Bhavya Dore |Kalpana Kannabiran |Soumitra Das |Pranay Sharma

Can a serious criminal also be a gentle aesthete? This contradiction lies at the heart of The Art Thief, a richly observed and deeply reported portrait of Stéphane Breitwieser, arguably one of the world’s most “successful and prolific” art thieves, if not the most. The journalist Michael Finkel mines the depths of his subject’s life to examine what motivated an ordinary, young, working-class Frenchman to systematically perpetrate art crimes to an estimated tune of two billion dollars.

Oct 5, 2023 | frontline.thehindu.com | Brahma Prakash |Kalpana Kannabiran |Vaishna Roy |Anand Mishra

“It is a case of territorial segregation and of a cordon sanitaire putting the impure people inside a barbed wire into a sort of a cage.”—B.R. Ambedkar quoted in the bookIn this book, Brahma Prakash opens out to view the interlocking carceralities of economic violence, sexual violence, and pandemic governance in a post-truth regime—and resistance.