Sreebitha P.V. Sairat (Marathi, 2016) would be the best text to examine if one is looking for the intersectionality of caste, class and gender in …
When the State feels Challenged by Dalit Women…
Rahi Gaikwad Dalit women often find themselves at the receiving end of the brahminical State. Many also challenge the very structures of oppression in their …
When Love is Brutal: Personal Narrative of Surviving Domestic Abuse
Swati Kamble After being treated unjustly for five years and after contemplating about it for over a year and a half, it’s only now that …
The Government could not Do Justice to Jisha
Dalit Penkoottam The authorities have not yet been able to apprehend the culprits responsible for the brutal murder and rape of the Dalit woman named …
A Place called Kranti
Pradnya Jadhav A place called Kranti-Chowk in Aurangabad city is an extremely important site. This place is famous for numerous reasons, most importantly for Shivaji’s …
Place and Time… Not a Single Story
Noel Didla Recently, I was asked to be a panelist at a policy conference. I seldom participate in conferences when invited because I’m a Dalit …
If You Can’t Help One Pulaya Woman, What of the Entire SC Community?
Chitralekha E To The Honourable Chief Minister of Kerala Complaint submitted by Chitralekha, Kunjimangalam Village, Edat Sir, I am an auto driver belonging to a …
Request (inanti)
Anuradha Gurav We give our children to the God Khandoba . Offer them to Yellama, Shantdurga Of our own will! We make our daughters lie …
Ourselves as “other”
Drishadwati Bargi “They had the power to make us see and experience ourselves as “other”” ~ bell hooks, Black Looks: Race And Representation. Narrative one: I have …
Of Power and Privilege: Faultlines in Upper-Caste/Class Indian Feminism
Huma Dar material to be analyzed (1): upper-caste/class feminists have claimed that only the victims/survivors of sexual assault at an upper-caste “workplace” — the uc …