The book edited and translated by Nikhil Pandhi, ‘Love in the Times of Caste’, was launched at Delhi’s Gulmohar Club. It examines love beyond heterosexual romance, locating caste in desire, intimacy, family, language and everyday negotiations.
At the third edition of the Dalit Literature utsav, writers showcased novels, poetry, and around 70 journals. The upper-caste Bengali book lovers have had very limited exposure to that.
Lohia-BSP-led social justice movement in North India had a different frame and trajectory than in the South. Periyar and Lalai Singh didn't fit in them.
In Exploring the Margins: Caste, Class and Gender Identity, Suresh Kumar explores how Dalit writers enunciate their ‘self’— like Om Prakash Valmiki in Joothan.
The debate around Indian translation is not just about cultural loss, it's the role languages play in the field of translation & the hierarchy they fall under.
The US and Israel’s assassinations of Iranian leadership ended up bestowing martyrdom on those killed. Shias saw the deaths as a continuity of martyrdom from the Battle of Karbala.
India’s fast-growing data centre sector may strain state electricity networks; Central Electricity Authority has urged Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu to boost capacity.
Theaterisation, which aims to divide the forces into three theatres with specific areas of responsibility, will become the single most far-reaching reform that the Indian military has witnessed since independence.
China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.
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