Jenny Rowena (This article was first published in Malayalam in Madhyamam newspaper on June 4, 2015) Several discussions about gender these days are as much about communities …
Happy Birthday Jotiba!
On his 188th Birthday, an excerpt from his writings. The Brahmin of the present time finds to some extent, like Othello, that his occupation is …
Over Their Dead Bodies: The New Politics of Protests
Sruthi Herbert Protest is a beautiful thing. Almost always. But recent protests staged in the name of the murdered girls in Badaun has taken a …
“No Gold” marriages: The politics of caste/class and gender
Sreebitha P. V. “Today if my grandmother was alive she would have been ecstatic to see me as a bride but at the same time …
A dissent note on the ‘Dark is Beautiful’ campaign
Sruthi Herbert “She is so fair that to look at her, you wouldn’t say she is a SC girl”. The ‘Dark is Beautiful’ campaign got …
Casteless Academe, Name-calling Dalits? Part 2
Anu Ramdas ‘But you came with a mind as large as the sky to my pocket size house I thought you had ripped out all …
Gaon dihari: A photo essay
by Asha Singh Welcome to my home, and meet my family in Bhojpur, Bihar. [dmalbum path=”/wp-content/uploads/dm-albums/asha_bhojpur/”/] Asha Singh graduated from Patna Women’s College, …