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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…
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…
Making Sense of Dalit Sikh History
Author – Dr. Raj Kumar Hans
Growing out of the powerful, anticaste sant tradition of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries in northern India, the Sikh variant of Guru Nanak (1469–1539) and his …
Did Savarkar Believe In and Promoted Untouchability?
Author – Harishchandra Sukhdeve
“… When these Mahar ‘untouchable’ folk coming from Sanatan Hindu majority villages go back to their villages now after embracing Buddhism at Nagpur will they be c…
Iraivi – Shades of Men and Masculinity
Author – N. Arvind Karthick
Iraivi is a Tamil film written and directed by Kartik Subburaj, which is loosely inspired by the story called Jannal Malar written by Sujatha. The evolution of the st…
Social and Political Revolutionary Potential of Buddhism
Author – Dr Amritpal Kaur
What we call a religion today is the remains of what once was a complete civilization. Buddhism emerged as a non-religious philosophy, as a hope for a better way of lif…
C N Annadurai on Babasaheb Ambedkar’s Conversion to Buddhism
C N Annadurai, former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, and who headed the first DMK ministry in the state, was one of the few political leaders in the country who welcomed Babasaheb Dr Ambedkar’s deci…
What’s Up With This Insistence On Fundamental Duties?
Author – Waseem Ahmad
There is a certain buzz about fundamental duties these days. I heard from many people, including university professors, students, and members of the political establishment, …
The Myth of Poor Brahmins in India – Brief History of Their Generational Wealth
Author – Anuradha Bele
The Union of India did not exist before 1947, the union was a collection of more than 550 princely states and many thousands, if not lakhs, of smaller estates, owned by he…
सच्ची रामायण और हिंदी का कुनबावाद
-प्रमोद रंजन
कुछ बातें इतनी बे-सिर पैर की होती हैं कि उन पर बात करना निरर्थक होता है। इन्हीं में से एक है जनपथ ब्लॉग पर 2 अगस्त, 2020 को प्रकाशित रामजी यादव का लेख, जिसमें मेरे द्वारा संपादित पेर…