Outrage over magazine’s report on caste break-up of CRPF personnel killed in Pulwama shows discriminated communities still find themselves pushed to roles with higher risk. Arecent report in The Caravan has led to a lot of noise and fury. The […]
The power of cinema touched the lives of the common men and women in the 1950s and 60s in films like Do Beegha Zameen, Garam Coat, and Naya Daur, that addressed the issues of the marginalized. The themes of rural […]
A personal story becomes a powerful social commentary against everyday casteism that often goes unchallenged Memoirs by Dalit writers tend to be documents of suffering. They are testaments of the atrocities heaped upon them by India’s indigenously developed misery-generating machine […]
Prof. Shah Alam Khan The single most dangerous preposition of fascists is persistence. Persistence with brutality and hate form the lynchpin of their efforts to control the masses. The disproportionate logic of hate cannot work unless it is hammered day […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s winning formula of 2014 is under severe stress; can he refresh it? A month ago, on January 18, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) general secretary Bhaiyyaji Joshi said in Nagpur: “When the temple will get constructed on […]
Perhaps the top court judges are making amends for their caste-blind 2018 ruling. When it is a common perception that courts in India, by and large, are lenient towards those who have committed offences and atrocities against members of Scheduled […]
“They are but beggars that can count their worth” — William Shakespeare in “Romeo and Juliet” Whenever poorly-clad, dirty and expectant people gathering along major road junctions, bus stands, temples, mosques or churches, rail stations, etc. pleading for a coin […]
Loknath Yashwant’s poetry talks of caste but critiques the Dalit middle class too Jabya, a Dalit boy, falls in love with Shalu, an upper caste girl in Fandry (2013), a film by director Nagraj Manjule. Loknath Yashwant is not an […]
The new generation rejects the old Congress model of clientelism but is also disappointed by the lack of Dalit representation in the BJP power structure. What do the Dalit youth want? The standard political wisdom seems to be still stuck […]
Inter-caste marriages are still unusual 70 years after ‘untouchability’ was banned Indian weddings are occasions of spectacle and statement. That was clear in the December wedding of Isha Ambani, daughter of India’s richest man, industrialist Mukesh Ambani. The celebrations included […]
