For An Informed Ambedkar Age
Shilpa Dasra and Navratri are widely celebrated across India as a festival of devotion, divine femininity, and the victory of Goddess Durga over the demon king Mahishasura. However, beneath this widely accepted narrative lies a complex history that reveals layers of caste, culture, and identity politics. A growing movement among Dalit, Bahujan, and Adivasi communities …
Sindu Deivanayagam and Apeksha Singegol Whether it is village or an urban setting, the system always functions in a hierarchical set up. A marginalized person, especially a Dalit, has to keep finding ways to survive and sustain. Even though urbanization and cities have created a mirage of anonymity that should serve some protection, that same …
Joby Mathew [Today marks the 150th birth anniversary of Ayyankali. On 18th June this year, which marks his 73rd death anniversary, Kerala University instituted a chair in his name and invited Arundhati Roy to deliver the keynote address in which she reduced the ‘Ambedkar-Gandhi debate into a Gandhi-Arundhati debate’ and ‘deliberately ignored’ Ayyankali] The …