For An Informed Ambedkar Age
Umar Nizar The elitist literary journal `The Paris Review’ had something strange about its submission policy. Everything had to be sent by snail mail. There was no online portal for writers to log in, nor were they accepting e-mail correspondence. This often resulted in unfortunate occurrences, as when a budding poet would, in all innocence, …
Mayuree Bankar In India, food is never just nutrition. It is caste. It is a hierarchy. It is violence. And for Dalits, it has long been the most visible and visceral reminder of social exclusion. Historically, sections of Dalit communities in specific regions have not had the right to choose what to eat or how …
Umar Nizar Furthermore, it is a commonplace that mistakes or errors are part of the learning process and thus essential to creativity: as Jung remarked, “anyone who takes the sure road is as good as dead’, or as Hélène Cixous puts it: ‘our mistakes are our leaps in the night. Error is not lie; it …
What do they know of Kathakali, Who they only Kathakali knows? Mistaken Modernities in Kerala Umar Nizar The cultural ecosystem in southern India, has been at the forefront of heralding an Indic future, from APJ Abdul Kalam on the Veena to TM Krishna performing live at the beaches of Kerala and TN, the southern …
Abid Faheem Abstract – Though the philosophy of caste hierarchy is quite contradictory to the basic beliefs of Islam which explicitly emphasizes equality and universal brotherhood, caste hierarchy exists among Muslims in India that can be divided into three broad category; the Ashraf (upper class), the Ajlaf (clean occupational caste), and the Arzal (unclean occupational caste …