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Review: Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd???s???Harappa: God???s City of Civilisation???
2+ day, 9+ hour ago (263+ words) His latest work, Harappa: God’s City of Civilisation, extends that lifelong intellectual project into an unexpected genre: the illustrated civilizational fable. The hero of the story is not a warrior king or divine sage but a young pastoralist named Harappa....
The rush to delete the digital archive of resistance
5+ day, 4+ hour ago (192+ words) A protest can end in a day. Its digital record can shape public memory for decades. So what happens when the record is quietly erased – one reel at a time? For over a decade, the BJP had built one of…...
Ram Temple embezzlement: How the Dalitbahujan see it
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (389+ words) Village Pali, Tehsil Phulpur, District Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh. White and grey clouds scattered in the sky. It is about to rain, at least so it seems. A clutch of women is transplanting paddy seedlings in a puddled field. But instead…...
Odisha: Mob violence is not simply a law-and-order problem
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (392+ words) The answer cannot be found solely in criminal law. It lies in the weakening of what may be called civic virtue – the moral foundation upon which democratic societies survive. The incident is not merely a law-and-order problem; it is a…...
Who owns a woman’s story? Rumours, reputation and resistance in ‘Maa Behen’
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (191+ words) The title itself is a reclamation. Maa Behen (Mother-Sister) are everyday North Indian words that serve a double function – the most sacred of kin relations and simultaneously the category of the most common expletives. To name a film after an…...
Assam: Uniform Civil Code and Muslim women of the ‘Char’ areas
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (312+ words) Yet, the true test of any social reform lies in its impact on those who remain on the margins of society. This has been reflected in the lower educational growth among the Char women. Higher education among the women of…...
Remembering Prof Imtiaz Ahmad: A scholar, teacher and humanist
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (175+ words) Forward Press Prof Imtiaz Ahmad’s passing on 19 June 2023 marked the end of an era in Indian sociology. Widely celebrated for his pioneering scholarship on caste and social stratification among Muslim communities in India, Prof Ahmad was one of the most…...
When will we, the truly despised cockroaches, create a viral campaign?
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (280+ words) The Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) which was aimed to be a satire, ends up giving hope to millions of young bloods of Mother India. This should not be seen as a mere coincidence. The CJP has become the face of…...
Sarhul: Reverence for nature informs this Adivasi farming festival
3+ mon, 5+ day ago (812+ words) When we Indians talk of development, we often see forests, hills and rivers as resources. For the Adivasis, nature is not a resource, but part of the extended family. The Sal tree (known locally as Sakhua or Sarayi) is central…...
West Bengal elections: Adivasi women representation and Hindu imperialist politics
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (1149+ words) Forward Press The poll outcome in constituencies reserved for the Adivasis in the recent assembly elections in West Bengal has conjured up a complicated, multi-layered and thought-provoking picture. The participation of Adivasi women in politics has definitely grown. But we…...