Manisha Sethi (Book order)

Manisha Sethi Book order

Manisha Sethi is a scholar of religious studies and social sciences whose work focuses on women within Indian religious communities. Her research delves into the complexities of identity, social standing, and spiritual seeking among women who renounce worldly life. Sethi's analyses explore how these women find new forms of freedom and self-realization within their religious traditions. Her approach blends rigorous fieldwork with a critical examination of gender roles and religious practices.

Kafkaland: Prejudice, Law and Counterterrorism in India

228 pages
8 hours of reading

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Kafkaland explores the grisly underbelly of counterterrorism, where prejudice and lawlessness are the standard operating codes. From Mumbai to Bangalore, to Delhi to Madhya Pradesh, it examines some of the most prominent terror cases to show that the hallmark of terror investigations is not simply a casual subversion of norms but cynical prejudice and brutal violence inflicted in the knowledge of absolute impunity. It also examines the disquieting trend of judicial abdication, wherein the courts indulgently ignore signs of torture, lack of evidence and absence of procedural norms, while trying terror cases.Kafkaland challenges the dominant narratives of counterterrorism and the emerging security-industrial complex. Kafkaland is where impunity, bias, suspicion are sustained by laws, where erosion of constitutional guarantees is advertised as internal security, where corporate greed masquerades as national interest.