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TopicDalit History Month 2021

Topic: Dalit History Month 2021

ThePrint’s Opinion team launched the Dalit History Month series for the first time in 2018 to not only commemorate Babasaeb Ambedkar’s birthday but also to foreground hidden stories, voices and catalysing issues in the community. You can read the articles here. We now bring you the second edition.

A Dalit lead who isn’t honour killing or inter-caste love victim. It takes a Neeraj Ghaywan

Ravikiran Shinde -
Bollywood is now comfortable with portraying drugs, gender parity, crime and sexuality, but still finds Dalit characters too hot to handle.

How Instagram reels is a mirror to modern casteism in India

Anurag Minus Verma -
Instagram Reels feels like you've entered an expensive restaurant where you can be mocked for your clothes, accent, and pronunciation.

Kausalya Baisantri, an early Dalit woman autobiographer, fought a ‘double curse’

Siddhesh Gautam -
Kausalya Baisantri was an educator and activist who reached the voice of Dalit women to then Indian President Giani Zail Singh.

Meet M. Nagloo, India’s first Dalit hotelier who was famous among British, US travellers

Chinnaiah Jangam -
M. Nagloo rose from obscurity to become a prominent figure in late 19th century. His biography, written by his son, is perhaps the first Dalit biography written in English.

New Dalit women autobiographies are opening up private, intimate spaces, rewriting history

K. Kalyani -
From Yashica Dutt to Sumitra Mehrol, autobiographies & memoirs by Dalit-Bahujan women have a unique position in centering their experiences.

Ambedkar said tyranny of majority is no democracy. Indians must read him again

Yogendra Yadav -
Don’t just celebrate Ambedkar’s birthday. Follow the democracy he envisioned for India.

Why Ambedkar changed on separate electorate. His shift was strategic not voluntary

Arvind Kumar -
Ambedkar favoured communal representation but had serious objections to a separate communal electorate being the best way to achieve it.

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Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

Gitanjali Das -
When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

What India can learn from the US-Israel war on Iran

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Economy

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

Katharine Gemmell -
President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Defence

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

Vaibhav Pant -
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

National Interest

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Shekhar Gupta -
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.

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