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From Breast Tax to Brahminical Stripping in Comics: Orijit Sen and Brahmin Sadomasochism

by rti_adminon March 2, 2017March 20, 20234

Pinak Banik “Only dead dalits make excellent dalits.Only dead dalits become excellent sites where revolutionary fantasies blossom!” ~ Anoop Kumar The context for this article centers around the selective fetishising of Dalit Bahujan whose deaths were ‘spectacles’ and hence “become excellent sites where revolutionary fantasies blossom”. This comes served with obscene explicitism via White …

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Yesudas and I: Many Hues of a Prejudice

by rti_adminon October 13, 2014March 20, 20230

James Michael History of a prejudice Yesudas’s recent remark against women wearing jeans is not an exceptional phenomenon. My parents and aunts are similarly prejudiced against jeans as much as some of your aunts and parents are. But that does not quite make my father or mother or scores of my other relatives misogynist. Neither …