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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 [...]

Damodar Prasad

Death Anniversary of a Marxist

A year after TK Ramachandran had left us many have started idolizing him, it seems. One may find articles in highly conservative periodicals promoting a romanticized image of TK. The kind of interest shown on TK could be of several reasons. The icon-believers may have not come out of his [...]

P K Ratheeshkumar

Friendships: Ins, Outs and In-betweens

“I can’t make friendship with the upper castes”, PMD, a dalit friend told me once.

After a few seconds of silence he continued, “I have been reminded constantly by them that I will not fit in their circles as one among them…They had never conveyed this directly, but through their everyday [...]