Vanshree Vankar

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Caste and access to public spaces: A field study in Suburban Mumbai

by rti_adminon May 24, 2020March 20, 20230

Vanshree Vankar In India, the historical context of oppression through occupation has given birth to social stratification via caste culture which includes notions of purity and impurity. This brutal history of thousands of years of discrimination restricts the utility of public space in ways both physical and psychological. In turn, these constraints on the …

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And understood the difference between ‘Elimination of Caste’ and ‘Annihilation of Caste’!

by rti_adminon January 5, 2019March 20, 202362

Vanshree Vankar Pandurangji Gosavi, my grandfather, is a freedom fighter. 95 years old, he was born in 1924. He has spent his whole life in Sewagram. Sewagram is the same place where Gandhi stayed from 1936 to 1948 and this is the same place where his magnificent ashram is. It won’t be an exaggeration …