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Other Backward Caste (OBC) organizations from several states nominated Dr Manisha Bangar for the prestigious Padma Shri award. The Padma Awards are one of the highest civilian honours of India announced annually on the eve of Republic Day. The Awards are given in three categories: Padma Vibhushan (for exceptional and…

The notion that only women are the ones who face many problems and setbacks due to this male-dominated society is a general perception. But, in reality, both the sexes often become victims in the name of customs and beliefs. Tamil cinemas, at times, have exaggerated the characteristics that underline this,…

Cinema over the years has become a major source of entertainment but over the years industry has successfully depicted the social reality on several occasions. ‘Karnan’ by Pa Ranjith is continuing the same legacy and redefines cinema by introducing a new form of aesthetics. It follows the legacy of previous…

In any type of engagement between two parties, played out in the public domain for their support; the party which is able to build up the popular narratives among the masses or is able to confuse the masses about the reasoning of the other parties will succeed in garnering the…

In the history of India, Dalits, an Avarnas who were historically oppressed and excluded from the Hindu Varna system, are located in the margins. They are, in fact, considered as an ahistorical or non-historical category. The general society of India would then be so forever. Masters of Dalit liberation ideologies…

Sarapatta Parambarai is about the victory of inherited strength, not inherited wealth. The philosophy of Buddha and Babasaheb both reiterated the cultivation of the mind to hone it into a disciplined, focused scalpel to build social heritage. The social heritage we build will be used by the next generation to…

For the oppressed Dalits, there are countless atrocities. Some of them stay forever in their heart and mind to provide needed anger and emotions to fight for their justice.  Even after inventing a constitutional-democratic form of vaccines against caste-psychosis, the government’s lowest preference to make people receiving them has prevented…

Brahminism seems too hard-wired into Indian nationalism and the truncated Indian state it gave birth to. Brahminism implies not only the Brahminical ideas but the social structure it is built around – the caste system. The Indian National Congress was formed at the initiative of Alan Octavian Hume, a Liberal…

Prashant Nema is a writer and an Anti-Caste Activist. He recently finished an interesting visual series over Amar Chitra Katha, comic books in which he brought out the bigotry of the graphic novel and comic publisher.In a farewell post, he writes, “I am going to suspend my Amar Chitra Katha…

Article by Vidya Bhushan Rawat A Television actress more known for her flirting ways than any acting exposed her caste mind when she said: Lip tint ko halka sa blush ki tarah laga liya hai because main YouTube pe aane wali hoon aur main achha dikhn chahti hoon. Bh***i ki…