“They called our men and said “If you don’t start sending your women to clean our toilets, we will beat them up. We will beat you up.” They said, “We will not let you live in peace.” We were afraid.” Threats such…
Interview by Ria De|Kolkata|July 7, 2020
Interview by Ria De|Kolkata|July 6, 2020
We wrote to Samprati to confirm if she had been aware that Arko is a non-urban Dalit student from the Rajbangshi community, whose father is a policy agent and mother a homemaker. Written by Ria De|Kolkata|July 5, 2020 On 27th June Arko…
Dalit Camera in conversation with political scientist Christophe Jaffrelot Interview by Raees Muhammed; Ria De; Sadique PK|India|June 30, 2020
Dr. Raees Muhammad in conversation with Suraj Yengde, author of Caste Matters
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister invoked the National Security Act against 16 Muslim youth who are accused of attacking Dalits residents of Sikandarpur Aika village in Azamgarh district. The accused would gather at the village tube well and pass lewd comment on the…
Draupathi a Tamil movie released in February 2020 is the worst movie of all that I have watched. However, the movie has found appreciation from Tamil Nadu BJP leader H.Raja and PMK leader Ramdoss. Then certainly one should know that it is against treating women equally and against love marriages. Both have appreciated and congratulated the team. I couldn’t watch for more than 10 minutes of the movie. I should also point out that this movie has received ‘good’ applause from the so-called larger public and the reviewers.
When people who live in the lower rungs of society start using words we pass through new worlds of knowledge and experience. Do you readers still have any doubts about how different words will be when they smell of the fresh earth, the raw fishes, the freshly cut paddy?
Marriage and sexuality, marriage and sexual control become a very important fulcrum for thinking about caste annihilation. That you cannot annihilate caste, this again i think is so very profound in anti-caste thought, that these are thinkers that think the intimacy of caste relationships. Because caste is about intimacy and it is about the withholding of intimacy and sociality from those with whom you could be intimate.
