Kunzru theorized that this idea emerges from the uncomfortable sensation that one is individually complicit in racism.
"It is a tricky theoretical ground because of the way our culture encourages us to think in terms of personal agency, guilt and responsibility," he said.
In a neat turn of phrase, he advocated the idea of "active intellectual unpicking" to help people reconcile their individual ideas of themselves as liberal, with the knowledge that they are the beneficiary of a system that privileges them.
The challenge facing people of colour is what Kunzru termed "a collective coming together", to collectivize over shared oppression, with the same aims in mind, and at the same time emphasise their "individual subjectivities" in order to dismantle the generalisation.
The Jaipur Literature Festival will reach its culmination on Monday.
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