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Tavleen Singh’s and The Indian Express’ Casteist Narratives

by rti_adminon January 1, 2024January 1, 2024Leave a Comment17

Vaibhav Kharat In her persistent engagement with caste, reservation, census related topics, Tavleen Singh exemplifies a pseudo-intellectual approach that perpetuates casteist biases located in the strong foundation of savarna prejudices, stereotypes and stigmatisation. Her recent writings on caste include the column ‘Time to end the reservation’, and ‘A caste census is casteism’ in the ‘The …

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‘Perspectives’: Social Experiment or Caste Conservation?

by rti_adminon June 2, 2017March 20, 20230

Kanika Sori In February this year, a young Savarna woman from Srishti School of Art Design and Technology, Bangalore, created a photo-project that went viral. It was hosted by fifty different kinds of media portals. Recently it was recycled by an e-zine called Storypick for public consumption. Its creator called the album ‘Perspectives,’ and …