For An Informed Ambedkar Age
Yasmin Soni Shakespeare famously asked, “What’s in a name?” Well, dear Bard, if you were house hunting in Ahmedabad, the answer would be: everything. My name isn’t just a name; it’s a full-blown identity marker, a flashing neon sign that makes landlords pause, brokers cough awkwardly, and listings suddenly become “unavailable.” “Only Hindu.” “Non-veg not …
Sky Baaba He sat on a throneand made my Dalits sit on the groundtold my Adivasis to stay at his feetwe folded our hands and stood,bringing palms together was all he ever taught my people;changing religion was a rebellionmy people stood shoulder to shoulderand entered mosques and churches; The above excerpt from Sky Baaba’s …
N A M Ismail It was my belief that similar to tigers, leopards, cats, dogs and wolves the majority of human beings were meat eaters. This had given me an extraordinary confidence that I could eat anything, that flies, except aeroplanes; that has four legs, except chairs and stools; that has two legs except humans; …