Hathras Rape – Three Poems
In a land where / Dalits cannot rule, they cannot rage, or even mourn. / This has happened before, this will happen again.
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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.
Attempts at criminal law reforms are part of the Sangh Parivar’s long-term and sustained agenda of bringing about a paradigm shift in the popular perspective on nationhood. It wants the criminal law system to be moulded on the lines of the Hindutva treatises of governance.
It is incumbent upon the state to act and remedy the pernicious influence of caste by eradicating its hierarchies and doing so requires looking at reservation as a component of political equality.
While all caste groups lost jobs in the first month of the lockdown, the job losses for the lowest-ranked castes are greater by factor of three; the loss of income and livelihoods has pushed India’s marginalised groups into further indebtedness.
The author discusses her commitment towards gender justice and equality as an anti-caste activist and researcher operating in upper caste, white and colonial spaces.
Dr Ambedkar had said that Dalits have two enemies: Capitalism and Brahminism; but today’s Dalit leaders have befriended capitalism.
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