We write this to clarify certain positions regarding the formation of TFJD. While it is not our intention to target individuals or make polemical statements we want to express our views on the recent issues on campus. The Teacher’s Association’s Involvement in the current Academic and Administrative Deadlock on Campus * A general body meeting …
Fact Finding Report on Mudasir Kamran Mallah’s Death: Bahujan Intellectual’s Collective
We Demand Proctor Harish Vijra Must Be Immediately Arrested and Prosecuted A team of Bahujan Intellectual’s Collective and other forums formed a Fact Finding Team and visited the English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU) campus on March 5, to enquire into the suicide of a Ph.D. scholar Mudasir Kamran on March 2. This is …
Statement in support of the struggle for justice for Mudasir Kamran
[Via Ravi Chandran] March 11, 2013. We express our solidarity with the ongoing struggle of the students of the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad following the unfortunate suicide of Mudasir Kamran, a PhD student at the University, on March 02, 2013. We are dismayed at the insensitivity with which the University administration has handled the situations that …
Justice for Mudasir Kamran, Munavath Sriramulu and others: EFLU Students’ Struggles
Dalit Camera: Through Un-Touchable Eyes [This article consists of two parts: the first part is a statement issued by the Dalit Camera Team on the events surrounding the tragic death of a Kashmiri student, Mudasir Kamran (read more about his death here), in the English and Foreign Languages University campus, Hyderabad, and the protests …
Silence of the nightingales
Kima And from the Heavens above, fire rained down upon the heathens, spreading death, mayhem and destruction everywhere. A heathen, because he was born in a land that had belonged to his people for generations. A heathen because he refused to bow down to the draconian law of an occupying force. Yet there was …
First as Tragedy, Then as Farce: The color of Kashmiri Blood in a Hyderabad Campus
Achuth Ajit & Ria De English, the language of a united collective; but also a language that found itself wanting today, as if unable to express the most basic of needs, the most just of demands. Of all days today English was at its banal best. As if clichés had eaten into it, gnawed the …
Christmas 2012 : After all home is just 15 minutes away…
Senganglu Thaimei It is with a compelling urge to let out my angst that I sat down to write in Tulihal, the airport in Imphal. A stringent curfew had been announced, and news of burning vehicles and sounds of tear gas or perhaps gunshots were welling up in the Imphal valley. This was because …
British Asians Rally to Outlaw Caste Based Discrimination in the UK
British Asians Rally to Outlaw Caste Based Discrimination in the UK In Parliament Square, Westminster, London, SW1P 3AA On Monday, 4th March, 2013 Background
(Trans)gender and caste lived experience – Transphobia as a form of Brahminism: An Interview of Living Smile Vidya
Note from the interviewers –This is the transcript of a conversation between Dalit transgender feminist writer and theater artist Living Smile Vidya, who lives and works in Chennai, with her transgender brothers Kaveri Karthik and Gee Ameena Suleiman from Bangalore. This conversation took place on a late night after 11 pm in the basti where …