January 23, 2021

"Soni": low key yet very powerful indeed.

January 23, 2021/ Deepak Sarma

Just finished watching "Soni" (Netflix 2018), a docudrama about two women working in the Delhi police force. In a powerful yet low key way, the films addresses gender imbalances, misogyny and sexism in the police force itself and in Delhi. The film focusses on two police women who forge a friendship amidst this sexist and dangerous world. It definitely does not have the energy and optimism of Mardaani, but perhaps, in this way, it is more realistic and more compelling. Recommended.

Deepak Sarma

Dr. Deepak Sarma, professor of South Asian religions and philosophy at Case Western Reserve University, is the author of Classical Indian Philosophy: A Reader (2011), Hinduism: A Reader (2008), Epistemologies and the Limitations of Philosophical Inquiry: Doctrine in Madhva Vedanta (2005) and An Introduction to Madhva Vedanta (2003).

He was a guest curator of Indian Kalighat Paintings, an exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art. He is a curatorial consultant for the Department of Asian Art of the Cleveland Museum of Art.

After earning a BA in religion from Reed College, Sarma attended the University of Chicago Divinity School, where he received a PhD in the philosophy of religions. His current reflections concern cultural theory, racism, and post-colonialism.

Deepak Sarma

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Deepak Sarma

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