Saris or jeans, salwar kameez or skirts, it's clearly only a matter of personal preference: it is ill-advised of women in the public eye to play into misogynist hands by picking on other women

BY Priyamvada Gopal 30 September 2014

Why was there such consternation among the British ruling elite as they pontificated between gritted teeth about what the damn electorate has served up?

BY Priyamvada Gopal 12 May 2010

Sarah Palin is condemned by some Western feminists, but she is also a product of some of its most restrictive visions. It is time for lessons to be learned--from outside the West.

BY Priyamvada Gopal 18 September 2008

Having reduced a once significant anti-colonialism to a self-serving dogma, Mugabe and his party's addiction to power will further indulge an equally self-serving Western appetite for spectacles of Third World despotism

BY Priyamvada Gopal 26 June 2008

Or how to rubbish all those who don't agree with you, get up your nose, yank your goat, or articulate critique and are likely, in any way, to challenge your undisputed supremacy as Pundit of the Postcolonial Nation. A response to

BY Priyamvada Gopal 17 December 2007

In 1932, a young woman named Rashid Jahan was denounced by some clerics and threatened with disfigurement and death. A doctor by training like Taslima Nasreen, she too had written about seclusion, sexual oppression and female suffering in a patriarc

BY Priyamvada Gopal 5 December 2007

What does the conferral of an archaic honour on Salman Rushdie--a visionary and complex writer lamentably transformed into a weak-voiced celebrity--and the ensuing outcry tell us about our times?

BY Priyamvada Gopal 25 June 2007

A national debate on race relations does need to take place. But it must be more complex than the simple binaries and easy scapegoating provided by Celebrity Big Brother's mud-wrestling idiocies.

BY Priyamvada Gopal 26 January 2007