Anu Ramdas Adivasi, dalit and lower shudra women are more often co-workers in the fields, kilns, mines, factories and neighborhoods than co-learners and professionals in …
Unpacking ‘Fulminations’: Caste and Patriarchy
Anu Ramdas Hira Bansode in her poem Ghulam (‘Slave’) writes: Where a woman in her youth is dried up by tradition she is confined all her life …
My Man
Anu Ramdas Lakshmi was always comfortable sharing her thoughts about her husband, Shanmugam. He was the shy one and never said much about personal things. …
Confessions of a confused Dalit Woman!
Jyotsna Siddharth Today’s status quo bites me. The upper-caste, upper class, elitism in feminism, the hypocritical pretension about issues and a bit of everything is disturbing. I would …
The warriors who slayed babies and other tales
Rahi Gaikwad The name Ranvir is usually given to a boy. It means brave warrior or battle hero. This is the name a section of …
I already have broken the wall
Pradnya Bhim Sindhu They talk of feminization of social…. Work…. Change They said sexuality should be addressed Feminism is an empire its multicultural discrimination They …
You can turn and go
Rupali Bansode Some feminists celebrate sisterhood and I did the same But soon I realised it was not between us, We were not sisters, or …
Remembering Honnamma
SAVARI A caste society is a society that sanctions violence at all levels, in a top-down fashion. This sanctioned societal violence heavily impacts Adivasi, Bahujan and Dalit …
Yashodhara
Hira Bansode O Yashodhara! You are like a dream of sharp pain, life-long sorrow. I don’t have the audacity to look at you. we were …
Naja goes to school – and doesn’t.
An excerpt from Shantabai Kamble’s Majya Jalmachi Chittarkatha, translated by Shanta Gokhale One day the headmaster called me. ‘We want to give you a …