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Sexuality and Buddhism
Author – Dr Amritpal Kaur
Sexuality is one’s capacity for sexual feelings. It is experienced and expressed in thoughts, fantasies, desires, beliefs, attitudes, values, behaviour, practices, and …
Crossroads of Covid – Time for Theological Transition
Authors – Dr Anuradha Bele and Dr Jas Simran Kehal
Reading about Mahavir and Buddha with my son in his class VI ICSE history textbook took us back to the 6th century BC. The chapter explained th…
Toxic Hegemonic Hindu (Brahmin-Savarna) Masculinity Causing Vaccine Apartheid During India’s Covid-19 Crisis
Authors: Narmada P and Jyoti B
Vaccine deprivation is falsely presented as vaccine hesitancy among marginalized sections by the mainstream media in India.
Misinformations, rumours, and all ki…
Sikhism, Caste and Ambedkar
Author – Dr Amritpal Kaur
According to Linda Alcoff, a feminist philosopher and social epistemologist, Identities are culturally located historical formations, open to reinterpretation. She conc…
![[Poem] Hindu Fas(Caste)cism](https://velivada.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/fascism.jpg)
[Poem] Hindu Fas(Caste)cism
Gautam Buddha – The Glorious Master
Author – Vishwanath Shegaonkar
In the annals of human civilization, the 6th Century BC was the most attractive and remarkable one. In this century alone the Greek Philosopher and Mathematician P…
The Problem with Swaero and the Contemporary Discourse on Ambedkarism
Authors – Shogun Gaikwad, Jyoti Bania and Ashok Danavath
Note: We as SC-ST Ambedkarite students, strongly condemn the targeting of Praveen Kumar, IPS by BJP leaders and Hindu Right-wing groups….
‘Dharma’ in Mahabharata is a Brahminical Construction, Not any Transcendental Ethical Values
Author – Abhik (Mohd. Uzair)
Savarna Liberal Academicians have always tried to justify both Brahminical Patriarchy and the entrenched caste system in one way or another. The recent addition to t…
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…
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…
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…
