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Gold is a precious material in Indian culture. It represents prosperity, fertility, good fortune – basically, all the things you want to have when starting a new life and establishing a family. For Hindus, gold is also connected to the goddess Laxshmi. As well as its spiritual richness, it has also represented a quiet power in the hands of women for centuries when practices like dowry and bride price were common.
more...During the era of German colonialism, wireless telegraphy served as an instrument of colonial control. Various aspects of this history and its legacies are addressed in Lene Albrecht’s novel Weiße Flecken (White Spots), in the workbook From Windhoek to Kamina to Nauen, and in the exhibition “Signals of Power” at the Brandenburg Museum in Potsdam.
more...This essay explores how public responses to the statues of Edward Colston in Bristol and Cecil Rhodes in Oxford expose tensions within Britain’s collective memory.
more...This is a short extract of Marcia C. Schenck’s book Remembering African Labor Migration to the Second World: Socialist Mobilities between Angola, Mozambique, and East Germany.
more...Based on many years of experience in educational practice and theoretical engagement, Methu Tharavasa asks how postcolonial approaches can contribute to anti-discrimination work in Germany.
more...It’s an open secret that migration is the backbone of our food systems. And Punjabi workers are an essential part of the Italian cheese industry.
more...In my family, caste was mostly a far away concept. As an adult, I am trying to constantly interrogate my positionality within my Indian identity and that includes acknowledging the privileged aspects.
more...When over 1 million indentured labourers left the sub-Indian continent to work in the British colonies of the world, they had to redefine their cultural identity…
more...As part of the Barrio Berlin festival, Hopscotch Reading Room, and poco.lit. co-program an evening at the cemetery café Lisbeth. Several dozen people squeeze into the building for a reading by Avrina Prabala-Joslin, a Tamil poet, and Maya Saravia, a Guatemalan artist.
more...Before I let you in on the strange journey that we were about to commence, I must share my history with you. I was borne by a boulder up in Sápmi, a land the Sámi has lived on sine the ice started revealing the land.
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