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On Manusmriti Dahan Divas – 8 Ways Brahminical Patriarchy Affects Me
Author – Sheeva Yamuna
I decided to go with an 8 points list, the most clichéd approach to “name” the problem because it is so difficult to put everything in one article otherwise. It is also di…
Interactions In ‘New’ India Are Under Threat
Author – Jaimine Vaishnav
We become what we think, preached Buddha. If you are often active on social media, which I think you are, you already have made conclusions regarding the culture of net…
In Conversation With Kamal Dev Pall, Punjabi Dalit Poet And Activist
Author – Dr Suresh Kumar
S. K.: There is very little biographical detail available about you could you please tell me about yourself?
K. P.: I was born in 1957 in Hoshiarpur district of Punja…
Dalits of Punjab – Literature of Punjab Dalit Women
Author – Dr Amritpal Kaur
Although Punjab has a rich tradition of literature, the entire genre of identity literature is blind to gender and has strongly refused to engage with Dalit women. If w…
Dalits of Punjab – Dalit Women and Their Struggles
Author – Dr Amritpal Kaur
Dalit woman of Punjab (like all Dalit women) receive her identity through her relationship to a man and has no identity of her own. The life of a Dalit woman in Punjab …
Dalits of Punjab – An Exclusionary Affair
Author – Dr Amritpal Kaur
Punjab is a state in the northwest region of India and is considered to be the most prosperous state. The name Punjab is made up of two words Punj (five) and Aab (water…
Documentary on Chaitybhoomi – An Appeal for Crowdfunding
I am Somnath Waghmare, a documentary filmmaker and a PhD scholar at TISS Mumbai. I have also worked as a contract employee at FTII, Pune. I am associated with the progressive social movement in Mah…
क्या है, “बहुजन समाज” की सबसे बड़ी जरूरत?
आज, बहुजन समाज की बहुत सारी जरूरतें हैं। लेकिन यह सवाल आम उठता रहता हैं कि आखिर उसकी सबसे बड़ी ज़रूरत क्या है ?
यह एक ऐसा सवाल है, जिसमें बहुजन समाज की सारी समस्याओं का हल छुपा हुआ है। अगर वो एक-एक …
My Eulogy For Dr. Vasant G. Baile
Written by – Dr Anuradha Bele
One of my fondest memories of my father is my younger sister and me eagerly sitting with him after dinner and clamouring for a story. He usually dipped back into hi…
Youth As Both Risk And Victim Of Dissent
Author – Garima Sharma
Youth is considered to be a period of significance as it is a threshold, an eventual arrival at the status of adulthood. This status of Adulthood itself is problematic in …
From Khairlanji To Hathras – Do Dalits Have Access To Legal Justice In This Country?
Author – Sowjanya Tamalapakula
Dalits live like Jews in Holocaust Germany and Black slaves in Pre-capitalist America. Yet, the world knows nothing about their pain! Dalits live in this country w…
How To Be An Ally? Here Is The Answer
Author – Shivani Waldekar
In the USA, on 25th May 2020, when Gorge Floyd, an unarmed Black man, murdered in police custody by Minneapolis and video viral were showed a white police officer kneel…
Caste Location and Issues – Towards An Anthropology of Gujjars
Author – Ravikant Kisana, Assistant Professor at Flame University, Pune | 17 Oct 2020
NEED FOR STUDYING THE MANY ‘JAN’ OF THE BAHUJAN:
It was the late Kanshi Ram, who first electorally weaponize…
Investing in Payback
Author – Dr. Sireesha Patibandla and Dr. Jas Simran Kehal
Gurpreet (name changed), a Dalit girl from a poor family in Punjab scores more than 99% in class XII exams and national daily catapults …
Remembering Saheb Kanshi Ram
Author – Dr Jas Simran Kehal
India has been a land of social diversities. These diversities bred discrimination which was countered by social, political and religious personalities from time to …