SAVARI A caste society is a society that sanctions violence at all levels, in a top-down fashion. This sanctioned societal violence heavily impacts Adivasi, Bahujan and Dalit …
Yashodhara
Hira Bansode O Yashodhara! You are like a dream of sharp pain, life-long sorrow. I don’t have the audacity to look at you. we were …
Naja goes to school – and doesn’t.
An excerpt from Shantabai Kamble’s Majya Jalmachi Chittarkatha, translated by Shanta Gokhale One day the headmaster called me. ‘We want to give you a …
My Name Is Memory
by Thenmozhi Soundararajan “A race of people is like an individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses …
Anti-violence Forum Mission
SAVARI Caste and Violence Caste violence stems from the inherent notion that superiority based on birth in the caste order is reason enough to hate, despise and …
Gaon dihari: A photo essay
by Asha Singh Welcome to my home, and meet my family in Bhojpur, Bihar. Asha Singh graduated from Patna Women’s College, Bihar and …
And They Say We Are Free
By Ashwini Shelke They are concerned about the freedom of those women, those who have been controlled and oppressed, those who had been protected and …
Jathi, Varna, and Caste and Gender Discrimination
By Cynthia Stephen Part 2 continued from here Jathi, caste as a social category or identity, distinct from a religious identity probably existed even much before …
India, The Idea Of Nation And The Subaltern Indian Woman
By Cynthia Stephen An excerpt from a chapter written for a book on subaltern women to be brought out by dalitbahujan student publishers The idea of India as …
When beauty is rendered as a tool to assert and/or negotiate spaces
by Minakshee Rode In a place like Pune University, whenever I look around, particularly, at the post graduate students studying English Literature, Caste and gender studies, …