When the functional is political is personal: Witnessing the many battles of Geeli Pucchi’s Bharati Mandal Written by Drishadwati Bargi|April 27, 2021|Minnesota Yet, this very silence, loneliness, and the self’s recoil onto itself is represented by art. Art witnesses the collapse of…
On the movement towards establishing Dalit literature in Bengal
Transcript of an interview with Kalyani Thakur Charal | 5th April, 2021 Infact, after Chuni Kotla incident which, occurred in Bengal in 1992 before Rohith Vemula’s incident. The Bangla Dalit Sahitya Organization had been started and they did a lot of work…
Setting tones with a Maha Mazdoor Kisan Rally at Barnala with 2.5 Lakh people at Anaj Mandi.
Written by D. Jennifer | New Delhi| February 23rd, 2020 Difficulties in staying away from wage work beyond a day and inability to afford expenses to reach protest-sites at Delhi borders, are good reasons for the working class to meet at Barnala,…
Singhu: The Unwritten
One such library is run by the Ambedkar Students Association of Punjab University. Ambedkar too is a noticeable presence on posters at the site, along with heroes from Sikh history and peasant leaders. While the protest opposes the farm laws themselves, it…
Guilty by association – A profile of Hany Babu
In collaboration with maraa, The Polis Project launched Profiles of Dissent — a new series centered on remarkable voices of dissent and courage in India and their personal and political histories, as a way to reclaim our public spaces. These are prominent writers,…
Why is Elgar Parishad being revived ?
On January 30, several Dalit and progressive organisations, academics and intellectuals will come together in Pune to raise their voices against neo Peshwai, fascist, Brahmanical and patriarchal forces By Elgar Parishad|January 16, 2021 The purpose behind organising the Elgar Parishad this year…
Peeling Onions; Or, to be Dalit, and Eat
I wish I knew the just way to countering the violence of the archive. When I cut into the onion’s history, should I learn from my father’s generation and look away swiftly, “pare away”, discard my tears, deny them a being? Or,…
Documentary on Chaityabhoomi: An Appeal for Crowdfunding
Appeal: I am Somnath Waghmare (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somnath_Waghmare) , a documentary filmmaker and a Ph.D scholar at TISS Mumbai. I have also worked as a contract employee at FTII, Pune. I am associated with the progressive social movement in Maharashtra. My documentary films explore…
Caste, food and ideological imposition
Eggs have been denied to children as part of the mid day meals in schools for several years. Described as the ‘menstrual discharge’ of the hen, eggs are labelled as ‘sinful’, ‘violent’, and agitating the senses, with egg eaters deserving to be…
Excerpts from “Food Tradition of Chandal Community” by Saradindu Biswas
The mistress of the house gets up before dawn, arranges portions of food prepared for Gasi Parab on a banana leaf and takes it to the bank of the ponds or to the tomb of the ancestors and offers it to a…