The Rani of Jhansi on horseback kills an Englishman with her sword (ca. 1860), Edwin Binney 3rd Collection, San Diego Museum of Art

The Fury Over India’s Citizenship Amendment Act and The Silence About Hindu Persecution

Four days into my first student teaching placement in a second-grade classroom on the Upper East Side was the day the planes hit the towers. In the days and weeks that followed, my shoulder was gripped by a dull throbbing every time I rode the bus between home, school, and Teachers College. It escalated into chronic pain that led to a…