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Poems By S Chandramohan, A Dalit Writer
KILLING THE SHAMBUKA (Inspired by a famous poem on black lynching) Jim Crow segregated hostel rooms Ceiling fans bear a strange fruit, Blood on books…
Why This Almost Blind Reverence Of Mahatma Gandhi?
Mahatma Gandhi is no doubt one of the great leaders of our time who has left a lasting…
Tribute To The Shaheen Bagh Women Protestors
These women have become a symbol for resistance and women’s empowerment for the entire country. This year International…
Black Lives Matter And The Fight Against Ethnic Chauvinism
The Black Lives Matter movement, originating in the US, is having a major impact globally. This is the…
A Perspective On Caste And Casteism In South Africa
South Africa’s colonial and apartheid past has bequeathed deep cleavages of race, class, tribalism and ethnicity. Although apartheid…
Bhimrao R Ambedkar: An Assessment Of A Dalit Icon
India today suffers from deep, painful fractures along class, caste, religious, gender and ethnic lines. Under the BJP…
What does it mean to be ‘african’?
The apartheid state of South Africa, as did the colonial regime in Kenya, used the term ‘African’ to…
Exposing Racism In The British Health Care System
The current coronavirus outbreak has laid bare structural inequalities in the UK including in Britain’s health care system.…
In Defence of Blackness
Even before the murder of George Floyd,America and the United Kingdom (where I live) were well versed in…
The Harvest of Casteism
The caste system in India thrives on what BR Ambedkar, a Dalit leader who was the chief drafter…