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समुद्र देखने का विशेषाधिकार
समुद्र दिखाना है मेरी मां को,
उसने देखा नहीं कभी
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Caste Hindu Nationalism and Trans Citizenship
It is the marginalized millions within the given nation-state that challenge its imposed uniformity & enforced uniform nationalism by asserting the right to touch, to see & be seen, to voice out & be heard beyond the negligible that’s sanctioned.
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Wretched Man
On the road,
there was a wretched man,
a man who was wretched,
who was lying in the middle of the road
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The Meeting Under The Banyan Tree: A Short Memoir
As a ‘first generation’ Dalit, I tried to share my confusion about my ‘Dalit-hood’ with fellow ‘assertive’ anti-caste people but it was counterintuitive. They could not process why a person born in a Dalit family should be asking if she is ‘Dalit-enough’
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Dalit Queer people in Non Profit: Decoding Posturing and Praxis
This is an opportunity for nonprofit organizations, specially organsations that are urban, led by dominant caste and/or cis-het leaders, to trust what we say, listen to us with compassion, and strengthen the commitments that they have.
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Tampered Spatial Anxieties
In the brahmin household, I followed her into the kitchen for a glass of water before I was asked to confirm my purity.
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If the Princess Had Lived
There had been rumours spreading through the village in the last couple of days, and finally, there it was—an actual television set.
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Love
Had I known love only in its form of making four walls and eight corners of the world, I would have felt a warmth instead of tasting so much gutter in that song.
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The Story of Maveli
Maveli is an important symbol of the rejection of brahmanism by the avarna peoples, and is a marker of the dissonance that underlies Hindu myths.
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Who Were Our Deities?
Bahujan deities around the subcontinent did not concern themselves with the ideas of sacredness, nor with notions of purity. Nature was central to Bahujan spirituality.
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Who Were The Asuras
In so many ways, the history of asuras and rakshasas is a history of marginalised castes and tribes, one that was grotesquely misrepresented by brahmins.