For An Informed Ambedkar Age
Ruth Chawngthu In 2013, the MET Gala adopted PUNK: Chaos to Couture as its theme of the year. The title itself suggests that punk is intrinsically chaotic when associated with its original immigrant and Black working-class identity in the U.K., yet becomes refined or “coutured” once it enters the largely white elite ecosystem. This metamorphosis …
Ruth Chawngthu 2024 was quite a year, to say the least! We witnessed multiple genocides and chaos fuelled by capitalistic demands being broadcast on social media. On our phones, we saw headless children in Palestine, mass graves in Congo due to the demand for “blood minerals,” brutality and deaths in Manipur, atrocities against minorities and …
Ruth Chawngthu Coming to Delhi for my undergraduation was one of the most exhilarating experiences of my life; I had always felt like a big fish living in a small pond living in Mizoram – one of the least populated states in India. It was my ‘big city dream’, something that would finally catapult …