Priyamvada Gopal teaches in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge. She was a student at Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi
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Challenging the myths of empire: An interview with Priyamvada Gopal
The documents of victimisation and exploitation are also the documents of agency and resistance – even if, of course, so much has been lost to history.
September 22, 2021
Another Rightwing Strongman has Won – but There is Hope for a Different Future
While defeating the right at the ballot box remains vital, our long-term work involves keeping alternatives to the present alive in society’s imagination. In the face of an unthinking insistence that neoliberal inequality and bigotry are unavoidable, we need to become difficult dissidents and uncooperative naysayers who speak up.
December 19, 2019
