Sagar Kumbhare “May be I was wrong, all the while, in understanding world. In understanding love, pain, life, death. There was no urgency. But I always was rushing. Desperate to start a life. All the while, some people, for them, life itself is curse. My birth is my fatal accident. I can never recover from …
Say No to Dowry
Bushra Afreen We celebrate Women’s Day every year with different themes. This year, the theme is #chooseTochallenge so I #chooseTochallenge. If marriage is a vehicle, where male and female are two equals, why is dowry given by the bride’s family? While both males and females make equal efforts to nurse their families; in married life, …
Politics beyond Pity: Looking at the condemnation of the events of Republic Day, 2021
Naichashakh (नैचाशाख) The farmer’s protests which managed to persuasively register themselves in early November as the farmer groups and unions moved past the barricades, heavy police deployment, water cannons, and several other obstacles to lodge themselves firmly at the seat of political power have opened up the many contradictions which make or rather un-make …
Let’s move on from this simplistic debate of nepotism in Bollywood
Anurag Minus Verma For the last few weeks, nepotism and insider/outsider has become the trending topic. As an outsider who is working in the Mumbai industry for more than 5 years, I would like to add that the debate of nepotism is a simplistic debate. There are much deeper issues which are plaguing the industry …
An Open Letter to AUD: “The many ways a student can be violated by an institution”
Aroh Akunth I am no more a student of Ambedkar University Delhi (AUD). My right to education has been obstructed. This letter lists out the reasons which have kept me from pursuing my education at AUD. It’s been two months since I first informed the authorities about the issues I have been facing with …
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 …
Campus casteism: How Professor Mandal is Fighting Back
Ritwik Balo Sixty years have passed since the Nazi Holocaust has been reportedly over. But for thousands of years, an invisible holocaust has been un-reportedly going on in this country. It is the kind of violence the Brahmin-Savarnas have done to the ‘backward’ castes of this country, who have been differently called the ‘untouchables’, …
Immolation bid by dalit woman foiled
RAJKOT: Police prevented a 52-year-old dalit woman from immolating herself outside the district panchayat office in Rajkot on Wednesday. Shantaben Vadher of Aji dam chowkdi is employed as a health worker in primary health centre at Sardhar. She came with kerosene cans to the district panchayat crossroads at around 11 am and tried to immolate …