Vaishali Khandekar Recently, a question raised by a student at JNU in a talk by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has raised a debate over academic spaces and social media. The talk organized at Jawaharlal Nehru University was about Du Bois, an eminent African activist. A question raised by Kumar, an MA sociology student belonging to a …
The OutREGEous Manuvadi
Dhruwa R Is it possible that an academic, a celebrity of sorts, is completely naive about the absence of Ambedkar in Indian pedagogy, and every now and then asks empty rhetorical questions: why students don’t get to read Ambedkar? Is it possible for someone to base one’s writing and empirical understanding from one set …