For An Informed Ambedkar Age
Kuffir The sweat that silently drops From the furrows of my forehead Becomes ears of rice That bow and salaam me with humility But! He, still adjusting his janeu, is edging, Towards the borders of the hill, Away from me… ~ J. Gautam, Telugu writer, in his poem ‘naaku duurangaa..’*. ~ You think they …
Gail Omvedt Arundhati Roy’s prize-winning novel, The God of Small Things, focuses on the most socially explosive of all relationships in India, a love affair between a dalit man and a high-caste woman. It ends with the brutal murder of the man by the police, “history’s henchmen,” and the woman’s banishment — punishments for …
Gail Omvedt India’s food is rotting. The greatest harvest of foodgrains in the country’s history is beginning to waste away in storage, eaten by rodents and insects, spoiled by moisture. Some of it, for want of storage space, is sitting in the open, exposed to the late monsoon rains. Estimated losses of foodgrains, according to …