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Review of Ashley Bohrer’s book, “Marxism and Intersectionality: Race, Gender, Class and Sexuality under Contemporary Capitalism”.
Last week’s ruling in the Constitutional Court placing further restrictions on abortion access in Poland sent a shockwave through society and brought tens of thousands on to the streets in protest.
Odisha’s Jharsuguda is witnessing massive protests owing to rampant rampant issues of displacement and loss of livelihoods, along with pollution.
Crimes against all women are on a rise but Dalit women suffer the double discrimination of gender and caste. Across India, cases of rape against SC women increased by 37%, and of assault by 20%, over the four years to 2019.
In his books, the writer – now in jail – demonstrates how caste atrocities are the result of deep-rooted societal structures.
The NSSO’s time use survey reveals striking facts about how men and women in India spend their time very differently, with women hugely burdened by unpaid work.
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.
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.
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