Why does the Euro-American model remain a promised land even for those holding contradictory ideologies? Why do new atheists, a section of Dalit intellectuals, Hindutva nationalists, and communists alike-despite divergent worldviews-end up imitating it, treating the West as an ideal?...
Bela Bhatia is a writer, researcher, and human rights lawyer practicing in the district courts of Bastar division, Chhattisgarh. She holds a doctorate from Cambridge University for her research on the Naxalite movement in central Bihar and has long studied...
Successive Left and Right governments in Kerala have treated the tribal land issue as nothing more than a welfare matter. The broader public, too, has failed to grasp the Constitutional promise of self-governance for Adivasi communities. Key initiatives like the...
M. Geethanandan, Adivasi Gothra Mahasabha convener at the time of Muthanga firing, himself saw the violations of human rights that took place when the police opened fire. The Adivasi agitation was called a terrorist activity by the media. The third...
The protest at Muthanga was a struggle for the survival and dignity of the Adivasi people. Just as the government’s response was deeply flawed, so too were the interventions made by some groups in the name of environmental protection. The...
Muthanga land agitation at Wayanad district of Kerala was not a chance event. It was the result of years of betrayal and neglect by governments towards the tribal community. The Tribal Mission, formed by the Antony government following the 'kudilketty'...
The removal of Adivasi and Dalit histories from textbooks is a form of epistemic violence that erases marginalized knowledge to uphold caste hierarchies. This deliberate omission depoliticizes Dalit struggles and falsely portrays caste as a thing of the past, leaving...
Until the 1970s, Asaris successfully avoided/actively ignored colonial forms of knowledge through various strategies and tactics. Asari interaction shows how difference-making, instead of dichotomous opposition could be a way of creating distance from the intervention of dominant forces. It also provides...
In early 20th-century Kerala, the Asari (carpenter) caste resisted both colonial and Brahminical dominance by intentionally rejecting the opportunities provided by colonial institutions. They actively dissuaded community members from engaging with these institutions. Sunandan K.N. explores how this deliberate act...
In early 20th-century Kerala, the Asari (carpenter) caste resisted both colonial and Brahminical dominance by intentionally rejecting the opportunities provided by colonial institutions. They actively dissuaded community members from engaging with these institutions. Sunandan K.N. explores how this deliberate act...
