A step-by-step guide for Savarnas to acknowledge and address an age-old evil, and become part of the solution It isn’t easy to talk about caste, especially for those of us who have, perhaps inadvertently, benefitted from a hierarchical social structure […]
Revathi, whose mono-act play ‘Vella Mozhi’ will be staged as part of the Thirunar Vizha Rainbow Festival segment of Chennai Kalai Theru Vizha on January 18, talks about how art can convey many things to people about a world alien […]
Mumbai: Poverty and lack of opportunity in their hometowns drove 93 million Indians from disadvantaged castes and tribes in 2011 to migrate to other areas within their states in the hope of securing education or employment. However. they continue to […]
This editorial by the late Khushwant Singh appeared in ‘The Illustrated Weekly of India’ 50 years ago. It is being reproduced today on account of relevance given the socio-political scenario. Khushwant Singh I did not have any choice; I was […]
The activist who was released on bail last week, wasn’t even a part of the protest but was brutally attacked by the Lucknow cops “There was a lady constable who hit me on the head many times with her helmet. […]
Natvar Desai, the CPI candidate who lives in a single room in a slum, refuses to bring up his Dalit identity. Nor will he pander to religious polarisation. “I am a Communist, I read the Communist Manifesto when I was […]
The main targets of the masked assailants were Dalit and Muslim students and those with Left affiliation. Shortly after masked assailants, allegedly belonging to the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), created havoc on the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus in […]
The name QAMRA is an acronym for Queer Archive for Memory Reflection and Activism but it is also meant to invoke other meanings. As a queer person living in India today, I’m expected to believe that this is a time […]
As per the NCRB, more than 10,000 students in 2018 and 82,000 students in the last decade have ended their lives owing to different reasons The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) in its recently released data, has said that nearly […]
A 19-year-old Dalit woman who had gone missing on December 31, was found hanging from a tree in Modasa, Gujarat on Sunday, January 5. The victim’s family has accused four men of gang-rape and murder. After the incident, thousands of […]
