No matter how deeply intellectual and globally influential Ambedkar is, the upper-caste mindset would never miss an opportunity to reduce Ambedkar as a mere representative of the Dalit struggle.
Tag: dalit lives matter
Book Review: Gloves and Gumboots Don’t Help, Manual Scavenging Has to Go
Years after publication, Bhasha Singh's 'Unseen' remains the go-to account for a look into how pervasive and cruel this casteist practice is in India.
There is Caste in the Hathras Gangrape, You Just Refuse to See It
The attempt at the erasure of the caste identity of the victim shows that we, as a society, still refuse to stand up and say that Dalit lives matter.
When Will #DalitLivesMatter Make It to Our Retweets and Instagram Stories?
Despite increasing cases of violence against the Dalit, Bahujan and tribal communities in 2020, a lot of us have been complicit in it thanks to our silence.