Artist KM Madhusudhanan through his oil paintings, sculptures, and ink and charcoal drawings speaks about the caste system, still prevalent in the country, especially his homeland Kerala. The year was 1888 when social reformer Narayana Guru, born in an Ezhava […]
The historical and political marginalisation of Muslims is significant. The political mobilisation around communities explicitly work against Muslims Mobility has been a hall mark of growth and democracy. The myth of mobility is one of the moral myths of the […]
NEW DELHI: Enrolment in touched 25.8% this year, marginally up from last year‘s 25.2%, but the share of girl students remains lowest in institutions of national importance, according the annual survey conducted. Noting a significant growth in enrolment at the […]
The government healthcare system is not only failing to prevent these deaths, but the government machinery is actually helping cover up these starvation deaths by ascribing other reasons “CM-ji, my older brother died of hunger, please save me,” hissed a […]
The better educated the groom’s mother, the higher the chances of an inter-caste marriage Only 5.8% of Indian marriages were inter-caste, according to Census 2011, a rate unchanged over 40 years. Whilst in other countries an increase in education levels […]
The statue, viewed as representative of the practice of caste sanctioned in ‘Manusmriti’, has been a major cause of discontent for nearly three decades. Mumbai: Ten days ago, two Dalit women and a Muslim man, all in their mid-40s and […]
China and Japan being the topmost countries in Technology and Science don’t have such mental slavery. On the other hand, they utilized their brain power to innovate, create, manufacture, build the nation. [The Supreme Court was recently urged to ban […]
The Channar revolt exposed the caste fault-line that ran deep in the kingdom of Travancore. The Nadars embraced Christianity promoted by British missionaries as a way out of the oppressive caste order enforced by upper caste Hindus, which included the […]
Even as the world looks forward to achieving the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2, which aims to end hunger, ensure food security and improve nutrition by 2030, a newly released report suggests that this might prove to be a Herculean […]
We need to seek out narratives beyond those of upper-caste, urban, non-disabled, cisgender women Like any other movement, it is hard to define ‘Me Too’ as it unfolds. Historically, it is important to acknowledge its origins in Black feminism and […]
