Jyoti Nisha’s documentary makes it clear that the ‘popular’ story of India is not necessarily the real story of India. At the very least, the story is incomplete.
Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, and Telangana have adopted a set of measures that provide preferential schemes for Brahmins, which only serves to invert caste inequality upside down.
I joined JNU’s Centre for Historical Studies in 1995, and found that books and archival materials on Dalits and Adivasis were scarce. Keeping up the Brahminical caste status was a primary motive of these studies.
Melbourne University scholars write about routine brandishing of 'upper caste' culture, which reproduces inequalities and makes them dominant representation of a national culture.
Oral histories of the Dalit-Bahujan community take us beyond the existing notions about India’s excluded communities and the Brahminical and Eurocentric biases inherent in them.
Vira Sathidar found prominence only in 2014 with the National Award-winning film 'Court'. But he leaves behind a rich legacy for the young generation of rights activists.
BSP's diminishing political power doesn't mean all is lost for the Bahujan movement. Kanshi Ram Jayanti is a reminder the anti-caste revolution is alive among the masses.
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.
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.
The Dalit activist and author Shalin Maria Lawrence uses eliminationist rhetoric of the DMK and DK – using 3% as a code for Brahmins. She is also indignant, like the DMK xenophobes, that Telugu songs are performed. Readers need this context to understand the language being used.
Learning and mastering carnatic music requires co considerable time evotion and little wealth. Practice makes the person perfect. Previously it was guru shysia traditon Nowa days govt musical colleges, University degrees, ph.d s which can be secured by any music interested person… So this kind of anti Brahmin bashing is totally unwarranted…. There are thousands of Brahmins family. Which had no access to any type of arts like others. Only people living in towns upwards had the access. This Sadhir turned into respectable sentences is simply meaning less. It was undeniably fact that Brahmins nourished the arts and culture and Isai vellars contributed marvellously… This proving art has no caste barrier. Hence I expect to stop spreading this canard. Carnatic music soul is Bhakthi, devotion to God…. Both are inseparable… Unwittingly TMK too indulged and proved it by rendering in mosque and Christian stage. TMK is such a pathetic soul and he is turned a person of negativity.
The Dalit activist and author Shalin Maria Lawrence uses eliminationist rhetoric of the DMK and DK – using 3% as a code for Brahmins. She is also indignant, like the DMK xenophobes, that Telugu songs are performed. Readers need this context to understand the language being used.
Learning and mastering carnatic music requires co considerable time evotion and little wealth. Practice makes the person perfect. Previously it was guru shysia traditon Nowa days govt musical colleges, University degrees, ph.d s which can be secured by any music interested person… So this kind of anti Brahmin bashing is totally unwarranted…. There are thousands of Brahmins family. Which had no access to any type of arts like others. Only people living in towns upwards had the access. This Sadhir turned into respectable sentences is simply meaning less. It was undeniably fact that Brahmins nourished the arts and culture and Isai vellars contributed marvellously… This proving art has no caste barrier. Hence I expect to stop spreading this canard. Carnatic music soul is Bhakthi, devotion to God…. Both are inseparable… Unwittingly TMK too indulged and proved it by rendering in mosque and Christian stage. TMK is such a pathetic soul and he is turned a person of negativity.