'The Amateur' reads the self-formation of intellectuals under systems of colonial education that are variously repressive, exclusionary, broken, or narrowly instrumental.

The fact that our sustained apathy for corruption has enabled the dehumanising violation of women points to one of the most distressing realities of Indian life – the widespread and persistent lack of concern for the minoritised.

That the inevitable consequence of this mechanism would be chilling masculine violence to a woman’s body and life was already cast in the script. 

When the education policy recommends the inclusion of religious knowledge in the curriculum, it goes far beyond the personal value of an individual teacher, or even a school.

As more instances of discrimination are reported in countries such as the US and the UK, the caste system has now been globalised.