Author: Huma Dar

Huma Dar is a lecturer in the Asian American & Asian Diasporas Studies Program of the Ethnic Studies Department at the University of California, Berkeley.

October 22, 2015 /

One has to wonder what kept these literary “stars” from this praiseworthy gesture of returning their state-given awards when the Gujarat pogrom was going on in 2002, or against the pogroms that followed the demolition of Babri masjid in 1992/3, or against the genocide of Sikhs around 1984, or heck, against the ongoing genocide in Kashmir or that of Dalits