Priyamvada Gopal teaches in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge. She writes political and cultural comment for the Guardian…
Priyamvada Gopal describes the marketization of higher education unleashed by New Labour as a result of which the intrinsic value of education…
Oddly unblemished by global scrutiny, India’s civil rights copybook is a blotted one, with its fair share of arbitrary arrests, police atrocities,…
Some feminists lament the glossy rise of Sarah Palin, others rush with sisterly ostentation to defend her from sexism even as they…
[This is a longer version of a piece carried by the Guardian June 27th.] Over forty years ago, as Africa commenced the…
We have become accustomed to theatrical displays of intolerance: death threats against writers, bonfires of novels, plays shut down, vandals defacing paintings.…
A few years ago, Tony Blair termed the state of Africa a ‘scar on the world’s conscience’. It was not the first…
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