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Assertion

Work and Free Time: Seeing Leisure Through Women’s Everyday Lives

Shruti Patil Leisure, as the Cambridge Dictionary defines it, is a time when you are not working or doing other duties. It is often imagined as time set apart for rest, pleasure, free from responsibilities or obligations. This understanding assumes a clear boundary between work and non-work, where once responsibilities end, leisure begins. However, this …

Features

‘The politics of cringe’ is rooted in caste and class bias

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 …

Atrocities

The Bloody Silence: When the Rape of a Dalit Woman Means Nothing …

 Vaibhav Kharat India’s recent history has been stained once again by two horrifying incidents of sexual violence—one in Bengal and the other in Bihar. Both crimes were monstrous, but the response to them exposes the rot at the core of Indian society, a society that remains shackled by caste even in its darkest moments. The …

Assertion

Why so Serious Men?

ankit ramteke

  Ankit Ramteke Oh, it is a movie about caste issues, progress, and all that. How nice! Do you know the talented Siddiqui is playing an assertive but cunning Tamil Dalit? Wow, As a caste-less, conformist, populist liberal, I am already experiencing a filmgasm. After years of rottenly skewed representation of these Achut, Neech, Bangi, …