For An Informed Ambedkar Age
Dhamma Darshan Nigam Long Live Bukowski Do not shy away to contradict contradictions are inevitable no one is ever free of contradictions it is an essential character to call a life – life lived enough like a necessary condition – like a basic need – like whiskey confronting men – eye to eye justifying its …
Ibin Nayakam On August 15, I watched the Tamil movie Thangalaan, directed by Pa Ranjith, and for the first time in a long while, I felt a sense of relief in my ideological struggle against societal injustices. Beyond its social commentary, the film offers extravagant visuals and employs magical realism to communicate its story. This …
The ‘as though’ folks In India, we have the oppressor caste folks Whose language is a bit hard to understand Let us configure this language In a way that makes sense. This is the language of the ‘As though’ Oppressor caste folks act as though they care As though they understand vulnerabilities very …
Sivaramakrishnan S In the annals of Indian cinema, few films have dared to challenge the dominant narratives of caste and colonialism as boldly as Pa. Ranjith’s upcoming magnum opus, “Thangalaan.” Set against the backdrop of the Kolar Gold Fields (KGF), this film promises to be more than just a cinematic experience; it’s a potential watershed …
John Ramachandran In shallow mainstream and pseudo-progressive narrative, Kali is described as fierce and embodiment of power, femininity and even queerness. But, none of those narratives analyses to whom she was fierce and over whom she was powerful. Before going into the analysis let’s see who Kali is and what was the outcome of her …
Ajitha M.K (Translated from Malayalam by Sreekala Sivasankaran) Hunger is an enemy, always Hate it to the core, it will thicken like forest Stand like a rocky mountain brazenly Bite like leeches and scorpions stealthily Hunger is rain Falling like needle points The blazing sun and the pain Even if you bend …
Jyoti Bania & Ashok Danavath Shashi Tharoor is the fox that Malcolm X warned of Shashi Tharoor, a Nair liberal, member of the Indian Parliament (MP) and author of many books made many inaccurate, controversial and contradictory comments in a recent talk on Ambedkar: The Quest for Equality held on June 13, 2023, at Selwyn …
Tripak Horse blinkers ‘Walk with horse blinkers’, advised my forty year old father out of his tobacco filled mouth, rotten teeth showing, from the gap of two lips. While removing my blood stained , white school uniform, on a rainy evening of shravan, when I came back from the school, breaking the skull of …
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 …