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10 days later

Posted in academics, blogging, caste, catharsis, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on July 22, 2009 | 9 Comments »

I come here to just retain my sanity…
1. I submitted a 20-page synopsis of my Ph.D. thesis. After three drafts and plenty of torture. Finally. So the title and etc are decided… For now, all that I can safely say is that my thesis is on classroom dynamics and learner identity. More horror stories will [...]

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Eat, Drink, Man, Woman

Posted in academics, activism, blogging, book, caste, culture, dalit, dreams, family, india, media, parents, personal, poetry, translation, women, writing, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on June 17, 2009 | 6 Comments »

Reproduced from Tehelka.com
MEENA KANDASWAMY has an electric effect on rooms when she reads her poetry. The erotic content quite apart, the juxtaposition of her highly femme persona and the tartness of her observations always charges the atmosphere.
The late Kamala Das wrote the foreword to Touch, the collection of poetry Kandaswamy published at age 23. ‘Love [...]

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Silence may be costly, hence this post

Posted in Chennai, Dr.Ambedkar, academics, activism, caste, human rights, india, name, untouchability, violence, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on November 14, 2008 | 40 Comments »

I would have remained silent about the caste clash among the law college students, but for this extremely abusive and derogatory comment from a casteist person who prefers to go by the pseudonym Pasumpon Muthuramalinga Thevar (PMT).
This is the said comment from PMT:
“You inhuman ambedkar people beat up our thevar people. How barbariands you are [...]

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the winner will be

Posted in book, culture, fiction, novel, reading, writing, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 12, 2008 | 6 Comments »

As the Man Booker Prize enters its fortieth year in 2008, it retains its position as the most respected literary prize for English language fiction published in the UK and the Commonwealth. Despite its glamorous halo of quality, the prize has attracted attention because of its controversial nature — a wife on the jury fought [...]

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Left behind…

Posted in activism, dalit, india, personality, politicians, politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on September 24, 2008 | 3 Comments »

All this talk about the Vijayakanth-CPI(M) tie-up is leaving me with a bitter taste in the mouth. Reason?  Whenever I have spoken to my leftist friends in TN (and by friends, I mean people in all levels of the hierarchy) about a Dalit-Left combine, they have directly pointed out that the Left ideology is totally, [...]

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The Emergency, remembered

Posted in activism, catharsis, children, culture, family, india, influence, parents, personal, politics, writing, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on June 25, 2008 | 6 Comments »

It’s early in the morning, and dad fetched the daily newspaper for me. and then we read that it is 33 years since the infamous Emergency. All that I know about it is what I have read in various books, newspapers and magazines.
Not so for appa.
He was jailed then and spent nearly a year in [...]

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Menstruating Goddesses

Posted in blogging, culture, feminism, human rights, india, women, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on June 9, 2008 | 15 Comments »

Published on Ultra Violet
When it was announced recently that the first batch of non-Brahmin students were being ordained for priesthood in Tamil Nadu, it was a great reason to cheer and celebrate that priesthood has been “officially” thrown open to all the castes and that Brahmin exclusivism was set to break (at least theoretically). But, [...]

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Indian newspapers (now, and then)

Posted in caste, dalit, tagged , , , , , , , on April 23, 2008 | 11 Comments »

The Indian media might have changed in terms of technology, print-runs and sales, style of functioning and such other helluva, hi-fi things. But has it become non-casteist (if not anti-caste)? Surveys after surveys tell us Dalits and oppressed communities are under-represented in the media. Though it might be a major problem, it isn’t the only [...]

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