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Kabali has roared: Why BAPSA was the real winner of the JNU student polls

by rti_adminon September 10, 2016March 20, 20230

Dhrubo Jyoti I have never been a big fan of presidential-style debates or Jawaharlal Nehru University. The former almost always reduces social justice to grandstanding and the number of hunger strikes while the latter takes itself too seriously as the citadel of equality, never mind the festering casteism, sexism and homophobia. Therefore, when I …

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Covering Dalit atrocities in a savarna newsroom

by rti_adminon August 10, 2016March 20, 20231

Dhrubo Jyoti I work with a major mainstream media house in the national capital, one that has hundreds of employees but no diversity policy, that ensures almost all journalists are drawn from urban, dominant-caste backgrounds. This is an irritant on most days but the effect of this on reportage has been particularly galling during …