For An Informed Ambedkar Age
~ Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man A Touch Your ancestors Forced my ancestors, To drag their dead animals, To skin them and cut them, Eat the dead animal meat, Cheap protein they would say — Animals which were fed Milk, ghee, curd and buttermilk. Your ancestors For years, became ‘impure’ after death. Your ancestors Won’t touch …
Round Table India Govathoti Sudhitha is a student of BSc (Nutrition and Dietetics) at St. Francis College, Hyderabad. She completed her undergraduate studies in the same Course with a CGPA of 7.9. She’s currently pursuing MSc in Nutrition and Dietetics in the same college and and has completed her first year. Her father’s ambition is …
Abdul Najeeb Noorul Ameen The American philosopher Abi Doukhan makes an interesting observation in her book on the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas. She states that the word ethics is derived from the Greek word ethos. The ethos pertains to the customs and principles of a society. The concept of the ethical refers to those actions …
Vaishali Khandekar Recently, a question raised by a student at JNU in a talk by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has raised a debate over academic spaces and social media. The talk organized at Jawaharlal Nehru University was about Du Bois, an eminent African activist. A question raised by Kumar, an MA sociology student belonging to a …
Anshul Kumar …It was about: when the subaltern speaks there is not enough infrastructure for people to recognize it as resistant speech. That’s what it means. – Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, (In Conversation: Speaking to Spivak, February 05, 2011 06:50 pm | Updated December 04, 2021 10:49 pm IST ) Ever since I have uploaded the …
Vinil Paul The study of the historical background and socio-cultural aspects of Christians in Kerala, boasting a lineage spanning centuries, constitutes a significant domain of investigation for academic scholars in the field of social sciences. Christians are divided among numerous denominations in Kerala, distinguished from each other by ecclesiastical authorities, historical context, and differences in …
పల్లికొండ మణికంఠ Abstract ఇటీవల మళ్ళీ తెరపైకి వచ్చిన రోహిత్ వేముల కేసు గురించి ఇప్పుడున్న పరిస్థుతుల దృష్ట్యా ఆలోచిస్తే, మనకు అర్థం అయ్యేది ఏమిటంటే – ఒక మనిషి లేదా సమూహనికి అన్యాయం జరిగితే, పౌర సమాజం మొదటగా చూసేది కులం. ఆసక్తికరమైన విషయం ఏంటంటే, రోహిత్ మరణించాడు అనేది చర్చ కాదు. ఎలా, ఎందుకు మరణించాడు అనే ప్రశ్నలను ఏనాడో ఈ పౌర సమాజం పక్కన పెట్టింది. అప్పుడు, ఇప్పుడు ఉన్న ఏకైక ప్రశ్న – …
Sree Govind Bharatvaraj Pa. Ranjith’s Kaala makes an Ambedkarite critique of the communists yet calls for their participation in a collective battle against Hindutva. Keywords: caste; Hindutva; communist; Ranjith; Kaala Tamil filmmaker Ranjith (well known as Pa. Ranjith) is an Ambedkarite who is influenced by the 1990s Dalit political movements. In his movie Kaala, he …
Bobby Marwaha For some people, like his critics, Chamkila is a notorious singer who promotes vulgarity, sexism, alcoholism, and illicit relationships through his songs. For his listeners, who enjoy his songs, he is their beloved singer and lyricist. We are not a part of either of the groups. We will attempt to understand Chamkila’s songs …