Kranthi Kumar Mungamuri Ever since the movie Jai Bhim was released, it has brought back the fundamental questions in intellectual circles and University student politics about the title ‘Jai Bhim’. Some people have come forward to support the title of the movie ‘Jai Bhim’ and the story as well. Others raised very valid points …
Migrant Tears in Untouchable India
Mungamuri Kranthi Kumar Corona doesn’t know any Caste or Religion, Says Hindutva. It is a blatant lie, It is Brahminical Morality Mocking thousand of years of Bahujan pain and agony. Caste Hindus snatched my land Tortured and killed me in my Untouchable village; Thousands of years of Caste Hindu Untouchability Thousands of years of Caste …
My Life and Caste: Journey of Becoming Ambedkarite
Ramkumar Govindan I am Ramkumar, pursuing PhD at Tata Institute of Social Sciences. One day after a discussion on Rohith Vemula’s institutional murder, one of my friends asked me, what kind of discrimination have you experienced? Without even thinking a minute I replied to her: no, I don’t think I have faced any direct discrimination. …
The Image of the Enemy
Nidhin Shobhana This essay is an outcome of a conversation I had with myself. The slaughter of Mohsin Shaikh, a Muslim technology professional was my point of departure. It was a reminder of a potent threat and a safe illusion – the threat of being a minority in an Organized Brahmanic Majoritarian Order and …
Whither Democracy In EFLU?
EFLU Students for Justice “If I find the Constitution being misused, I shall be the first to burn it.” ~ B.R. Ambedkar We, the students of the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, strongly condemn the administration’s gross manipulation of procedures in rusticating PhD scholars Mohan Dharavath and Satish Nainala and M.A student Subhash Kumar …
We have cleansed our eyes and tongues: On diasporic denials and revisionism
Sinthujan Varatharajah He sat down in the crammed living room of a flat in a low-income suburb in Toronto, Canada. Every weekend he would travel to the other end of the city to enter the 12th floor of a high rise complex in the immigrant area. He would arrive at 11 AM and sit …
She is not Nirbhaya from Delhi..
Joshua Isaac On 3rd January, 2013, Kalki, a I year Intermediate student of Vanur village, Villupuram district, Tamil Nadu, left her house at 3 pm to attend to nature’s call in a nearby casuarina grove.