Suraj Yengde
This writer is with the department of African and African American Studies at Harvard University.
Sun, Apr 18, 2021
Ambedkar’s writings are an ideal interface to grant the desired humanity to the dehumanised and excluded people declared untouchable and unseeable — a group without history.
Sun, Mar 21, 2021
World over, the government is scrutinised and if things go on at the pace as they are doing now, one might fear this vibrant democracy will be shunned as a hostile State
Sun, Feb 07, 2021
To investigate the Buddhist past is to supplant both Hindu (Brahminic) and Islamic history, for they contributed to the erasure of Buddhist richness from the land.
Sun, Jan 10, 2021
Our minds think about the beautiful things we have and that is family. It is the most valued institution where respect and honour are not performative. It is a candid space of attracting compassion and sharing warmth.
Sun, Dec 13, 2020
One cannot be blind to the suppression of one’s own while positing a universalist agenda. Anti-women behaviour needs to be addressed as a community project.
Sun, Nov 15, 2020
The story of social media is brutal and very depressing. As you descend into an abyss of trauma and helplessness, do look up and around, you will find more darkness.
Sun, Oct 18, 2020
Instead of standing by the slain woman and her family, the women from the Thakur caste chose conspicuous silence and shifted the blame on the victim.
Mon, Sep 21, 2020
Chandra Bhan Prasad was the first Dalit in independent India to have a dedicated column space in the English press. He fronted attacks and counter-punched detractors for berating Dalits, taking on anyone trying to pull them down
Sun, Aug 23, 2020
Anna Bhau is probably the only creative writer whose statues are found in almost every big and small town of Maharashtra and outside.
Sun, Jul 26, 2020
The constitutional promises through reservations and land reforms were one of the few ways for us to get together. But these remain hotly contested. Reparation is one of the most viable ways to secure justice for all.
Sun, Jun 28, 2020
Sometimes, it is the moral force that draws attention to it. This moral force helped India win its independence from British brutality.
Sun, May 31, 2020
Labour laws are a conglomeration of close to 250 Central and state laws that grant protection to the labourer by regulating fair wages, conditions of work, overtime, leave, and social securities through employment security.
Sun, May 03, 2020
Dalit and Adivasi social and political movements need to consider waging a struggle against the draconian laws primarily aimed at penalising them.
Sun, Apr 05, 2020
Unlike China and South Korea, India had the advantage of time and lessons from other countries to prepare. But, even as the pandemic was building up, it was caught up in the machinations in Madhya Pradesh.
Sun, Mar 08, 2020
The Delhi anti-Muslim pogrom is a collective failure of the liberals and radicals who ferry to occasional protests.
Sun, Feb 09, 2020
India is a Brahminical State, notwitstanding its secular nature. The entire system favours the twice-born savarnas, mostly Brahmins who occupy the highest position by default in all the major sectors, controlling wealth and power.
Sun, Jan 12, 2020
Cheerfully acknowledging the intrusion of a world-renowned journalist, Devika invites him for a talk. The cameras flash as she takes him to the green room behind the stage...
Sun, Dec 15, 2019
The Hindu-Muslimisation of India’s past and present falls well into the trap of Brahminical rhetoric of theocratic nationalism that wants the world, and Indians in particular, to believe in this dichotomy and not about the grand legacy of Buddhism and the internal violence of caste.
Sun, Nov 17, 2019
This world is so beautiful that one who is privileged to have such childhood often wants to live in it. The child wants to freeze the time zone of that journey. However, as soon as it notices the child living in her wildest imagination of possibilities, society seizes this from her.
Sun, Oct 20, 2019
Untouchable India refused to fit into the Brahminical story-writing samples of magazines. It challenged the nationalist narratives and asked the Dalits to self-examine their subordinate slave status in society.
Sun, Sep 22, 2019
Taking a stab at his first ever journalistic piece, Babasaheb Ambedkar lamented the recklessness of newspapers in manhandling Dalit issues.
Thu, Jul 18, 2019
Dhale’s early Dalit Panthers phase is nectar for the contemporary radical Dalit consciousness. In spite of the voluminous contribution, Panthers like Dhale and others could not get a chance to personally connect with other revolutionaries like the Black Panthers or the global workers’ movement in their lifetime.
Thu, Sep 06, 2018
The term seeks to change structures of oppression, rather than adjust to them
Sat, Oct 01, 2016
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