For An Informed Ambedkar Age
Sanket Shinde This Article explores how Dalit hip-hop in India functions as a counterpublic and counterculture, drawing from Ambedkarite thought and global Black traditions of resistance. On the cold night of April 13th, the night before the birth anniversary of B.R. Ambedkar, I performed my rap on Anti-Caste culture and the cultivation of the mind. …
Vaibhav Kharat There comes a time in a society when it begins to eat its own body, mind, and soul, when cruelty starts dressing the robe of morality in sanctity, when people pray louder but feel emptier. In moments like this, I often think of an old myth: The story of the ‘Brahmarakshasa’. A learned …
Akhilesh Kumar On the 19th Mahaparinirvan Diwas of Manyawar Saheb Kanshi Ram, we pay tribute to a visionary leader. He was a revolutionary leader who dedicated his entire life to awakening the deprived sections of society, those who have long been denied their rightful place in the nation’s social, economic, and political fabric. Saheb Kanshi …
Vikas Porika The Supreme Court, as the apex judicial body in India, is the ultimate guardian of every citizen’s constitutional rights. It is the final arbiter of the Constitution and delivers judgments on all types of cases. The Court, comprising the Chief Justice of India and 33 other judges, functions effectively and guides the nation’s …
Amit Kumar Yadav, Nayana Goswami Madhya Pradesh has once again found itself at the centre of a national debate on the future of social justice, affirmative action, and the legal limits of representation. The state government’s decision to push for 27 percent reservation for the Other Backward Classes (OBCs) and its subsequent affidavit before the …
Lipun Kumar Sanbad Lord Jagannath is a renowned Hindu deity not only in the state of Odisha but also throughout India and the world, with millions of devotees and hundreds of temples dedicated to him. The term ‘Jagannath’—Jagat (World) + Nath (Lord)—means the ‘Lord of the World’. The first question that arises is this: Can …
Preksha Chaudhary Consider the reach of some Indian influencers with millions of subscribers and followers on Instagram, YouTube, and other platforms. On these accounts, millions of viewers are invited daily to laugh at individuals’ spiked hairstyles, different haircolours, bright clothes, makeup styles, local accents and dialects, deliberate mispronunciation of words, and romantic gestures coded as …
Rathod Raghuvardhan Broadly classifying the tribal communities based on lifestyle patterns, there are four major kinds of tribes in India: nomadic, semi-nomadic, settled, and Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs). Here arises an important question: what makes a community a tribe? How can we classify a community as a tribe? This remains one of the most …
Ringngheti Khenglawt . . . in 1947 the British empire handed us over to the Indian government and set sail towards their homeland. At the year 1958 and 1959, mautam – the famine caused by the flowering of bamboos and rapid increase of rat population, made us realize that we were just a guest at …