Dreams of Freedom Amid Longing for Death
The Constitution killed the ghost of caste in theory, but it still follows the oppressed everywhere.
Dalit Women as Active Participants in Ambedkarite Movement
In Dalit women’s songs, emotions stimulate intellectualism in order to annihilate caste from our minds. In them, melody is constructed through historical fact, and music is a medium to pursue a life of the mind, emancipating singers and listeners from social constructs.
In Chokhamela’s Bhakti, Past Transforms into Radical Present
Chokhamela’s 13th to 14th-century abhangas, and the songs of other Maharashtrian dalit-bahujan saint-poets from the Bhakti movement, offer a complex and crucial narrative to understand the inception and growth of resistance in future Dalit traditions and movements.
Wamandada Kardak: Singing a Casteless Republic into Being
Maharashtra’s Wamandada Kardak was the one singer, shahir, musician, poet and lyricist who changed the structure and politics of music. He is called the modern Kabir, for he made music the weapon of the masses, by imagining and singing the idea of Prabuddha Bharath.
Ambedkar in Dalit Women’s Literature and Lives
It is the impact of Ambedkar’s movement on the minds of Dalit women that those who were once enslaved by patriarchal-castiest brahminism started to demolish its narrative-body by writing their liberation in their own words.