Unequal Ground: Favouritism and the Cultural Capital of Caste in Academia – donna
Favouritism[i] is undoubtedly a work that runs into our emotions – where we like somebody/someone over others; it exists in…
Savarna Solidarities In The Ambedkarite Struggle – Jatin Mathur
Recently Birsa Ambedkar Phule Students’ Association (BAPSA), a student organization in Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) based upon Ambedkar’s ideas and…
Beef, Brahmins, and the Sacred: Navigating Socio-Political Dynamics of The Indian Holy Cow – Sahil Singh
The reverence for the holy cow in India is deeply entrenched in religious, social, and political realms, shaping the country’s…
Caste: The Lies that Divide Us by Isabel Wilkerson (2020): A Review by Krishan Kumar
Caste has been a persistent and defining principle of inequality and discrimination in India. In recent decades this has become…
Potters Without a Wheel: Ethnography of the Mritishilpis in Kolkata by Saswati Bhattacharya: A Review by Vanshika Yadav
Saswati Bhattacharya’s book Potters without a Wheel: Ethnography of the Mritshilpis in Kolkata, published by Routledge in 2022, takes the…
Rural Labour in a Caste Polity: Fighting Free to Become Unfree Again by Jan Breman (2023): A Review by Madhuri Xalxo
Jan Breman’s book Fighting Free to Become Unfree Again: The Social History of Bondage and Neo-Bondage of Labour in India,…
Mahasweta Devi’s ‘Breast Giver’: A Synopsis – Riddhi Chakraborty
Introduction The story ‘Breast Giver’ was written by Mahasweta Devi in 1987. In this story, the author talks about Jashoda,…
Mockery as Power: Aesthetics of Caste Discrimination in India – Ankur Kumar
The act of mocking someone or something is to laugh at someone in an unkind way. It is an act…
Caste Discrimination and Exclusion in Indian Universities: A Critical Reflection by N Sukumar (2023): A Review by Sonu Bagri
After Rohith Vemula’s suicide, Indian academia received enormous attention from scholars and policymakers, as a space not secluded but implicated…
Belonging, ‘Performance’ and Everyday Exclusion in IITs: A Critical Note on Student Suicides – Vidyasagar Sharma
The recent suicide case of Anil Kumar, a B.Tech student at IIT-Delhi, is the second incident of suicide after Ayush…