An Ossathi’s Daughter

There had been rumours spreading through the village in the last couple of days, and finally, there it was—an actual television set.

Wretched Man

On the road,
there was a wretched man,
a man who was wretched,
who was lying in the middle of the road

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’

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.

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.

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. Illustration by Shrujana N Shridhar Maveli or Mahabali or Bali is a mythical figure and a folk hero across Maharashtra and Kerala. He is mentioned as the “King of Asuras” […]