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Casteism and Ways of Removing Casteism

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  Mahitosh Mandal Casteism is caste-based prejudice deriving from Brahminical values and giving birth to discrimination and violence against those belonging to the Dalit-Bahujan communities, the ‘marginalized majority’[1] of this country. This is a kind of simple definition. But this has layers of implication. Let us begin with an anecdote that would give us one …

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What Amitav Ghosh can teach us

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  Jason Keith Fernandes While a number of litterateurs across India were making a symbolic protest against the rising intolerance in India under the Modi regime by returning their awards from the Sahitya Akademi, a bunch of Sahitya Akademi award winners from Goa, along with two Padmashri awardees, made a very odd statement. On the …