For An Informed Ambedkar Age
Pardeep Attri In the last few days, social media was buzzing with the war of two different ideologies over the “controversial” comments made by director Pa Ranjith, famous for movies such as Madras, Kabali and Kaala, on Chola empire and exploitation of Dalits. Pa Ranjith’s remark that rule of Chola emperor Raja Raja I …
Balaka Chattaraj What comes to our mind when we hear the word caste? Well, the answer will be different for each person. But mostly if the person is from Kerala and West Bengal caste is so-called and it doesn’t exist. I grew up in the typical Bengali culture in a small town called Raniganj. In …
Vinay Shende At the outset, let me say that this is not a film review and I am no expert on the technicalities of film making. I won’t be talking about the plot of the movie. If anyone sees it as only a gangster movie, then they are missing the point. Director Pa Ranjith weaves …
N Sukumar & Shailaja Menon The usual template in many a ‘mainstream’ Indian film in any language is similar. The standard star-crossed heterosexual lovers, dance around the trees in sylvan surroundings, facing family opposition, the stern patriarch, the simpering and cowering females and finally the great Indian wedding. The sole criterion is entering the …
Rupesh Kumar The five month long Standing Struggle (‘Nilupu Samaram’) of the Adivasis of Kerala has just ended. The Adivasis protested by standing in front of the Kerala Secretariat in Thiruvananthapuram all these months. The government has now agreed to the Adivasi demands and the movement is a historical success. This Adivasi Standing Struggle was …
Six months of land struggle at Arippa Ajith Kumar A S It was on December 31st 2012, that landless people, majority of them being dalits and adivasis, entered 56 acres of revenue land at Arippa in Kollam district of Kerala demanding land rights. Now there are almost 1300 families in the protest land. The …
Six months of land struggle at Arippa Ajith Kumar A S It was on December 31st 2012, that landless people, majority of them being dalits and adivasis, entered 56 acres of revenue land at Arippa in Kollam district of Kerala demanding land rights. Now there are almost 1300 families in the protest land. The …
Dalit Camera: Through Un-Touchable Eyes C. K. Janu has breathed new life into the land struggles of the Adivasis and the landless in Kerala, fashioned a new autonomous language of resistance for similarly marginalized groups fighting for land rights across the country. In 2003, after the Muthanga agitation in 2003, she had written: The …