Dnyanesh Before you read the poem, let us discuss the context in which this poem lies. It unravels the journey of a human mind that grows up from childhood to its adult age. In this poem, the mind has a distinct journey to tell because it has been nurtured in socialization where caste has been …
Understanding manual scavenging: Why should only one group clean society’s shit for centuries?
Nishant Kumar Dongre We very often hear about the deaths of manual scavengers on the internet. We mainly read about their deaths but not about the regular discrimination and exclusion practised against them because the media reports on their deaths but not on their daily life of subjugation and pain. In every report, we find …
Nagraj Manjule: Exposing Merit – A Hoax of the Caste Society!
Utkarsh Manav If a person from an ex-untouchable community becomes a well known personality in any field or makes his presence felt in any sector, these days he gets a prefix attached to his profession and that prefix is ‘Dalit’1. The insertion of this prefix seems to imply this community was not meant to be …
Tolerance
Devanuru Mahadeva The ‘touch me not’ words of today are ‘tolerance’ and ‘intolerance’. By connecting purity with untouchability, India became a land of the half living and the half dead. So it may be safer to speak less. I too am trying to understand. Without understanding the existing intolerant behaviour, tolerance also can’t be …