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Seema Duhan

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My first exchange with her left me with a sense of pleasance and an attraction yet to be understood, however, it was enough to thrill me to explore the depth of her persona and not let the opportunity slip away. Subsequently, I proposed her for an interview with me.  She was [...]

Sanil M N

Theatre of Reservation

Anand Teltumbde’s ‘One More Reservation’ (EPW, April 3-9, 2010) indirectly legitimizes the anti-reservationists’ disguise as the pro-reservationists. Reservation is welcomed by the anti-reservation public to articulate their hegemony. Many of those who support the cause of reservation in public are against the rights of the marginalized communities in their private [...]

B Ravichandran

Politicizing Shit

The recent incident of Dalits smearing human excreta for saving their homes in a place called Savanur in Haveri district, Karnataka, one of the southern Indian states, has created diverse responses from civil society.

The most common response from the incident is that it is the ‘worst’ kind of protest anyone can do. Some people even [...]

A S Ajith Kumar

SMS Communities:The Cas(t)e of Star Singers

Amidst all the opulence and glitter caste has always been there in most of the reality shows in Malayalam television channels. It was always-already present, difficult to render invisible. But, till the grand finale of the Star Singer show’s season four in Asianet, it hadn’t showed up in such proportions [...]

Nilratan Shende

The Elite Billing

Why do the political parties engaged in fighting for the rights of the marginalized are opposing “progressive women’s reservation bill’ and why congress, BJP and left have combined to vote for the bill? Why BJP which had mobilized people against reservation for OBCs, supporting it?  Is it just because that ‘they owe the bill to their [...]

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