For An Informed Ambedkar Age
Himadri Sekhar Mistri A Familiar Script, A New Hashtag In India, after any genuinely popular protest, something predictable happens: its language is borrowed, and its momentum diverted to other causes that have little to do with its original politics. This is what seems to have happened after the month-long agitation by the Cockroach Janta Party …
Duhaisami Tochhawng You scroll through a reel of Aizawl at dusk. The camera pans across the ridge. Terraced houses cling to the slope, holding on the way our houses do because our land is nearly vertical and there is nowhere else for them to sit. The light is soft. The audio is Japanese, likely a …
Rasni Bai Abstract: The recent controversy surrounding the alleged theft of gold at the Sabarimala temple has largely been discussed as an instance of administrative failure or criminal misconduct. This essay approaches the controversy differently. Rather than investigating the alleged theft itself, it uses the episode as a contemporary point of departure to examine the …
Umar Nizar The near-hysterical reception that accompanies the release of a Christopher Nolan film has no exceptions. `Odyssey’, his latest flick to hit the screens, has succeeded in a way that would be envious to many, to say the least. The movie has found a huge audience, and also has become a talking point or …
Madhuri Kamtam I have been meaning to write about this journey for a long time. I always imagined it would be an essay. But when I signed up for the Bosla Arts and Studio 12 Open Mic Solidarity Night in London in June 2026, poetry felt like the only honest form. The spirit of that …
Manoj Bag In August 1931, during his first formal meeting with Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi at Mani Bhavan in Bombay, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar made a declaration that fundamentally shattered the nationalist illusion of a unified anti-colonial front: “Gandhiji, I have no homeland.” To grasp the profound weight of this statement, one must first interrogate what it …
Mahesh Admankar Main Wapas Aavunga is an emotionally resonant masterpiece—one that approaches the staggering tragedy of the 1947 Partition not through explosive political grandstanding, but through the quiet, devastating power of human intimacy. The film anchors the historical trauma of millions onto the fragile shoulders of an elderly Sikh man in his nineties. Haunted by …
Saraswati Suna (Swati) Abstract: Marriage rituals in South Asia have historically reinforced caste and gender hierarchies. Within contemporary Ambedkarite Buddhist communities in Odisha, debates over “mixed marriages” frequently centre on visible Hindu practices such as Brahmin priests, sindur, and the mangalsutra. Drawing on Ambedkarite social media discussions, wedding practices, B. R. Ambedkar’s writings, and anthropological …
Cheena Khundrakpam When societies experience prolonged conflict, the most visible losses are often the easiest to count. We record the number of lives lost, the homes destroyed, the families displaced, and the schools that fall silent. These figures matter because they remind us of the scale of human suffering. Yet they reveal only part of …