‘Gachiakuta’: The politics of trash and the rise of the subaltern
By the time Gachiakuta’s white-haired protagonist is hurled into its festering underworld, dumped like garbage into the detritus of a caste-stratified society, the fall feels inevitable. He had always lived socially, spatially, and spiritually adjacent to the trash heap, and the obliviating void of The Pit was merely the logical endpoint of a life marked…