For An Informed Ambedkar Age
Bobby Kunhu “The Mismeasure of Man treats one particular form of quantified claim about the ranking of human groups: the argument that intelligence can be meaningfully abstracted as a single number capable of ranking all people on a linear scale of intrinsic and unalterable mental worth.” – Stephen Jay Gould, “Mismeasure of Man” I …
Bobby Kunhu “I do not expect the White Media to create positive Black images” – Huey Newton “Historically, rape and sexual violence have been used as means to dominate and control different races, cultures, and groups of people.” – Chardonnay Madkins The Muzaffarpur multiple rapes and the way the state machinery and discourse has …
Bobby Kunhu In the street where my parent’s home is in the middle of Salem city, adjacent to the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister’s permanent residence, most local residents don’t allow Dalit domestic workers inside the house – the kitchen is, of course, a no-go area – and there are separate vessels to serve these …
Bobby Kunhu Another massacre that happened in Kachanatham, Sivagangai district, Tamil Nadu has gone virtually unnoticed in the shadow of the terrible massacre at Thoothukudi on 22nd May. Outside the local English and regional media almost no one picked up this cruel story – and the reasons must be obvious. Apart from the higher …
Bobby Kunhu There are two things that I have suspected after the Thoothukudi firing – which may seem obvious to many of the readers here. But let me reiterate those for the sake of the rest of what I am about to say. The first is that the 22nd May massacre in Thoothukudi was …
Bobby Kunhu The liberal Tamil intelligentsia is at it again – Pa Ranjith bashing – and this time for guilt by association. Following Rajinikanth’s visit to Thoothukudi after the massacre on 22nd May, he was publicly humiliated on camera by Santhosh, a young leader of the movement and also the coordinator of the All …
Bobby Kunhu The celebration of the arrest of the prime accused in the Junaid Khan case as a kind of closure is very troubling and playing right into the hands of Hindutva politics. We would do well to remember that after the increase in the spate of violence in the name of cow protection, …
Bobby Kunhu Since Amit Shah exclaimed on June 9th at Raipur, “Aur isi liye Mahatma Gandhi ne durandesi ke saath, bahut chatur baniya tha woh, usko maloom tha aage kya hone waala hai, usne azadi ke baad turant kaha tha, Congress ko bikher dena chahiye” (Translation: and this is why Mahatma Gandhi with much …
Bobby Kunhu The last time I critiqued a Bachchan starrer was without watching the movie, but this time the hype got me into the theatre to watch Pink. Truth be told, it was also way to spend time with a very close friend’s family. I would be lying if I said I didn’t enjoy …