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Contemplating the Delhi Phenomenon

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  Priya Chandran The rape and murder of 23 year old student Jyoti, in Delhi, which has brought out a tremendous response from the middle class Delhi public and later from similar urban categories across the country also gained considerable media attention. When the immediate affective reaction of this public varied from demanding capital punishment …

Assertion

Dharmapuri Burning: Letter to National Television Channels

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  Please send the letter posted below to all the National Television Channels mentioned (by inserting your name in the place of the sender) and share and circulate it widely. [Via P. Dayanandan] ~~ To: Times of India, vivek.narayan@timesgroup.com; info@timesnow.tv; CNN-IBN, editor@ibnlive.com; Headlines Today, info@aajtak.com; NDTV, feedback@ndtv.com; CC to: Justice Markandey Katju; justicekatju@gmail.com Dear Sirs, We are writing to you …

Features

Rape has been the favourite weapon of the dominant castes: Paul Divakar

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  Ravi Chandran Paul Divakar, of National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR), talked to Ravi Chandran of Dalit Camera: Through Un-touchable Eyes in Hyderabad recently. The first part of the excerpts of the interview are produced below:     Dalit Camera: Sir, could you speak about the recent spate of rapes, in Haryana? {youtube}IBk21b0cGbc{/youtube} …

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Well done Mary Kom!

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(The impact of Mary Kom’s bronze, and what it means for the North East) Kima A few hours ago, Mary Kom lost her semi finals bout against home team’s Nicola Adams. I was here at home in Khar West, Mumbai, watching the match with my friends Akshay, Syed, Param, Pooja and Ajay. We actually set …

Features

Ambedkar and Media

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  V. Ratnamala   The history of the press in India is the history of the freedom movement in the country. To a great extent, the Indian National Congress owed its popularity and position to the Indian press (Mazumdar, 1993). The history of the freedom movement happened to be the history of Congressmen. Hence the …

Thought

Politics of representation

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Gopal Guru (Published in Seminar magazine in December 2001) THE UN conference on Race, Xenophobia and Other Related Forms of Discrimination was recently held at Durban in South Africa. A central issue that assumed ‘flaming’ importance both before and during the conference was whether caste should be included in the formal agenda of the conference. …

Features

My name Is memory

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Thenmozhi Soundararajan “A race of people is like an individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own selfhood, it can never fulfill itself.” — Malcolm X Story. Story. Story is the shortest distance between two people. This piece of wisdom has stayed …