Jitendra Suna Speech made at the protest by BAPSA on 16th March, 2017 against the Institutional Murder of Muthukrishnan (Rajini Krish) I am Jitendra Suna, and I am from a remote village named Pourkela in the District Kalahandi, Orissa. I completed my high school from B. R. Ambedkar Uchhavidyapitha Pourkela, but never really knew …
I am someone who thinks in an Ayyankali thought: Vinayakan, best actor
Dwija Aami and Sreerag Poickadan Malayalam actor Vinayakan has received the Kerala State government’s Best Actor Award 2016 for the Malayalee film Kammatpadam, recently. His interview by Jimmy James in Asianet News television channel for the programme ‘Point Blank’ on March 13, 2017, became viral on social media owing to his bold answers, straightforwardness and …
When Equality is Denied, Everything is Denied
Periyar Bhim Vemula Another Dalit scholar has committed suicide, this time in Jawaharlal Nehru University. Muthukrishnan (27), a self-made student, who travelled all the way to Delhi from Salem was pushed to this state by this society, this empire called India. What are the reasons for his suicide? Muthukrishnan had written a small post …
I Will Not Exit Your House Without Letting You Know That I am a Dalit
Riya Singh Yes, I am assertive. Assertive of my caste identity. It is not a ‘fashion statement’ trust me, it takes a lot of courage and training of your own self to be this assertive. You asked me what harm did you do to me. You know what you did, you asked me to …
Dissent and the Oppressed
Raju Chalwadi Our plural society is going through one of its most fragile phases; the very notion of its multi-identity is under threat. The irony is that the threat is not from outsiders but from its own citizens who are trying to impose their version of history, culture and nationalism on “others.” Since the …
Let’s read SFI as ‘Students’ Fascism of India’: Dalit & Muslim Students of Kerala
C Ahamed Fayiz Activists of Inquilab Students Movement were attacked by SFI hooligans at Government College, Madappally, Calicut today. Adhil Ali. A, a first year student who is pursuing BA political science, was brutally attacked by SFI goons. “We were locked up in the principal’s room and prevented from going outside the campus for …
Brahmin Feminism sans Brahmin Patriarch
Kanika S It has almost become common sense that feminism has been shaped exclusively by a class of women that came from Brahmin-Savarna castes in India, to the extent that even trashy Brahminical platforms like The Quint have also had to recently float articles admitting the same when it was no longer possible to …
An Appeal from Ligimol CK
Ligimol C K I am Ligimol C K. One year ago I was residing in a rented house owned by Mr. Johnson in Eloor. After some days he stormed to my room along with his wife to beat me and he abused me a lot and moreover insulted me by calling my caste name. …
ब्राम्हणी पितृसत्ता आणि सोशल मीडिया
Bhagyesha Kurane सोशल मीडिया हा आपल्या जीवनाचा सध्या एक अविभाज्य घटक झालेला आहे. सोशल मीडियाचा वापर करावा की करू नये अथवा कशाप्रकारे करावा याबद्दल समाजामध्ये अनेक तर्कवितर्क व्यक्त केले जातात. काही व्यक्तींना वाटतं सोशल मीडिया हे टाइमपास करण्याचं एक साधन आहे. उगाच त्यावर वेळ खर्ची करू नये. अनेक मुलींच्या पालकांना असं वाटतं की सोशल …