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Ethics of Reading Ambedkar’s Text

Vol. 56, Issue No. 15, 10 Apr, 2021
Samar Kavi

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West Bengal Assembly Elections 2021: Does a ‘Party Society’ Really Subsume the Politics of ‘Identity’ and ‘Development’?

While West Bengal’s “exceptionalism” is often touted to explain the claimed lack of communal and caste-based politics in the state, the rise of populist forces has somehow managed to take advantage of identitarian fault lines without creating space for democratic political mobilisation of marginalised sections.

Translating Public Protests into the Digital Realm

Vol. 56, Issue No. 14, 03 Apr, 2021
Abhishek S

Notes from an Ambedkarite cultural troupe about taking the protest site online.

Caste and COVID-19

Vol. 56, Issue No. 13, 27 Mar, 2021
Kanthi Swaroop, Joel Lee

The article looks at on-ground shifts in patterns of how the state and general public are treating sanitation workers, during the CoVID-19 pandemic. Based on interviews with sanitation workers in Hyderabad and Lucknow, three trajectories are identified in municipal and societal reactions to COVID-19. A variability is seen in how state and society respond in the face of renewed caste-based stigma underscored by inaction on the part of the state to concretely recognise sanitation workers’ rights.

 

Research Radio Ep 21: The Government, Markets, or NGOs—Who Can Ensure Equitable Access to Water?

In this episode, we speak to Deepa Joshi about how water access is regulated based on caste and gender.

Untouchability in India: A Reading List

Although constitutionally banned, untouchability is still practised in both rural and urban India, by upper castes and lower castes. But how was the untouchability question answered in colonial India? Did attitudes change during the fight for independence? And despite the ban, why is the practice still prevalent in India today?

Dynamics of Caste and Landlessness

Vol. 56, Issue No. 10, 06 Mar, 2021
Ajay Kumar Gautam, Bhujang Sambhaji Waghmare

The effects of land acquisition processes and poor urban planning on Dalits and the marginalised landless population are analysed. How minor changes in laws and policymaking processes can change or prevent future policy issues by addressing landlessness-borne issues in consistency with sustainable development goals and social inclusion is examined. This study aims to understand the complexities and transitory socio-economic problems underlying urban development planning. It finds that poor and marginal landless village residents, who had little to no idea about the land acquired for a public purpose, undoubtedly faced the most unfavourable outcomes in the course of rural to urban development.

 

Politics of Caste-based Schemes

Vol. 56, Issue No. 10, 06 Mar, 2021

Governmentalising schemes in favour of a privileged caste defeats the principle of justice.

 

On Philosophical Causality and the Problem of Evil

Vol. 56, Issue No. 9, 27 Feb, 2021
P Thirumal

Caste: The Lies That Divide Us by Isabel Wilkerson, Allen Lane, New Delhi: Penguin Random House, 2020; pp 496, `599 (hardcover).

 

The Lockdown in India

Vol. 56, Issue No. 8, 20 Feb, 2021
Vatya Raina, Ananya

The coronavirus pandemic, nationwide lockdown and the Indian demography are explored through the prisms of caste, class and gender. There is an evident link between the degree of vulnerability and susceptibility of certain people falling prey to the ills of the lockdown and the overlapping effects of class, caste and gender they belong to.

 

Do Normative Values Need an Address?

Vol. 56, Issue No. 7, 13 Feb, 2021
Gopal Guru

Certain questions that arguably involve the denial of access both by the state and socially hostile society to basic human needs and natural rights, such as freedom, warrant both articulation and amelioration.

Research Radio Ep 14: The Myth of Vegetarianism in India

In this episode, we speak to Balmurli Natarajan and Suraj Jacob about the politics of vegetarianism in India.

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