In mid-December 2019, a nationwide protest movement took to the streets in India against the new xenophobic, Islamophobic, and casteist citizenship laws instated by the Bharatiya Janata Party-led central government. Months-long sit-ins, marches, and spontaneous gatherings carried on into early 2020, halted only by the arrival of the Covid-19 pandemic. By late March, a national lockdown was declared, and multiple protest sites across the country were razed to the ground; their visible traces slowly vanished. In the time that has followed, the energy, vigor, and steadfast resolve of the movement has been subject to a state-led campaign that seeks to tarnish its premise: a simple call for a return to the secular and democratic foundations of the Indian constitution.
About the Author
Skye Arundhati Thomas is a writer based in Goa, India. Her writing has appeared in Artforum, the London Review of Books, Frieze, and ArtReview, among other places. She is an editor of The White Review.
About the Publisher
Floating Opera Press is a Berlin-based occasional imprint started by Aaron Bogart, publishing contemporary criticism and artists’ books.
