Making room for better futures

Making room for better futures Can political events wound us as intimately as private loss? This book explores that question, ending not on an optimistic note, but with an acceptance that we must keep making room for better future Listen to This Article What to Do with Political Sadness: And other Essays on Death, Destruction and Hauntology By Ghazala Jamil Published by Yoda Press and Simon & Schuster India 232 pages ₹499 Ghazala Jamil gives a name to the pit that settles in the stomach every morning, and to the numbness in the bones with which we carry on through the day.

She calls it Political Sadness. But what happens when grief becomes a way of knowing politics? In What to Do with Political Sadness: And Other Essays on Death, Destruction and Hauntology, Ms Jamil begins with the unsettling recognition that political events can wound us as intimately as private loss.

The personal is never quite sealed off from the political, while the private can become a place where political memory is rehearsed and collective subjectivity sustained. Sadness, thus, is not just what politics leaves behind.