Two Poems: One Day I Saw My Girl; Red
You can cage the singer, but not the song …
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You can cage the singer, but not the song …
We have witnessed time and again how rape and other forms of sexual violence are used against Dalit women to dehumanise the community and maintain caste-based hierarchies and power relations.
More than 32,000 incidents of rape took place in 2019; also, a total of 45,935 cases of crime or atrocities against Dalits and a total of 8,257 cases of crime against tribal people were recorded.
The true reason for NIA arresting Fr. Stan Swamy is because he had dared to expose the large scale abuse of anti-terror and sedition laws by the previous BJP-led Jharkhand government.
Hard hitting letter by a group of former police officers and civil servants to the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, regarding the handling of the Hathras rape case by the UP administration.
In a land where / Dalits cannot rule, they cannot rage, or even mourn. / This has happened before, this will happen again.
India cannot ignore the context of caste and see Hathras, Balrampur, Khairlanji or thousands of other assaults merely as sexual crimes.
Yogi Adityanath is the perfect man to achieve the Sangh’s goals.
This is what the former CM of Tamil Nadu wrote while welcoming Dr Ambedkar’s decision to convert to Buddhism.
The biggest beneficiaries of structural inequalities everywhere tend to be least aware of them, and wish not to be reminded of them – this is true for the IITians in India too, who are wilfully blind to their caste privilege.
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