Vaikhari Aryat SAVARI strongly condemns the police brutality on students and faculty, which included verbal threats of rape hurled at women students; the profiling of …
Chithralekha Day Night Protest For Justice
A solidarity meeting is being held on Jan 4th, 2016, to stand in support with Chithralekha for her protest before the Secretariat, starting on January …
बाबरी से दादरी तक
Sweta Yadav आज़ाद भारत जी हाँ आज़ाद भारत! सिर्फ आज़ाद ही नहीं बल्कि दुनिया का सबसे बड़ा लोकतान्त्रिक देश | लोकतंत्र का जश्न मानतेहुए भारत …
Disastrous Dalit-ness
Pradnya Mangala It is important to approach the study of disaster, not as an exercise in social disorganization or pathology but as the occasion for …
Ourselves as “other”
Drishadwati Bargi “They had the power to make us see and experience ourselves as “other”” ~ bell hooks, Black Looks: Race And Representation. Narrative one: I have …
Over Their Dead Bodies: The New Politics of Protests
Sruthi Herbert Protest is a beautiful thing. Almost always. But recent protests staged in the name of the murdered girls in Badaun has taken a …
Flagrant violation of victims’ rights by media in Badaun
We are writing this letter with regard to the blatant violation of the rape-shield laws, as well as the abuse of children’s rights, in the …
Bhagana outrage: On the dire need for a collective struggle
Jyotsna Siddharth Delhi witnessed a protest to condemn the rape of four dalit girls which took place in Bhagana village in Haryana. A huge outcry …
Years ago…
Pradnya Jadhav Years ago, she had a dream of attending school, completing graduation, getting a job and settling down. But yes, it was just a …
The linked caste slavery of the Kolhatis and the Bedias
Rupali Bansode During my field work for research on female Tamasha artistes, I was fascinated by a few interesting links I found between the two …