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07SepThe Poems of Resistance by S. Chandramohan
The post is by Vidya Bhushan Rawat. Vidya Bhushan Rawat is a social and human rights activist. He blogs at manukhsi.blogspot.com/. Chandramohan S is an Indian English Dalit poet. He is part of P.K. Rosi foundation, a cultural collective (named after the legendary,pioneering Dalit actress) that seeks to demarginalise Dalit-Bahujans. His latest collection of poems Letters to Namdeo Dhasal is forthcoming. RAPE AND MURDER OF A DALIT GIRL No newspaper carried a headline or a photo feature, No yo[...] -
01Sep"I have forever been a ‘devil’s advocate’"
An Interview with A. Mangai, author of Acting Up: Gender and Theatre in India, 1979 Onwards A. Mangai is the pseudonym of Dr. V. Padma, who teaches English at Stella Maris College, Chennai. She has been actively engaged in the theatre for close to three decades. She writes bilingually in Tamil and English and is also a translator. For LeftWord Books, Mangai has written Acting Up: Gender and Theatre in India, 1979 Onwards. In The Hindu, Sruthi Krishnan says of the book that it ‘does not offe[...] -
27AugNamo's Readings
We know a lot about Namo. We know of his incessant foreign trips, of his sartorial preferences, his love of his own voice. But we don't know what he reads. Namo's pal Barack recently released his music playlist. We can picture Namo's smirk when he heard this. Not for him such trivial pastimes. He is the leader of a great ancient nation. The nation which invented, in the hoary past, plastic surgery and aeroplanes and whatnot. Namo says so. He must have read it somewhere. The nation[...] -
Dalits & The Holy Cow
An atrocity took place on 11 July 2016. In Una Block of Gir Somnath district, dominant caste youth attacked four dalits. The incident took place between the villages of Mota Samadhiyala and Bediya. The four dalits - Vasharambhai Balubhai Sarvaiya and his brother Rameshbhai Bhalubhai Sarvaiya as well as their cousins Becharbhai Ugabhai Sarvaiya and Askokbhai Bijabhai Sarvaiya had been skinning dead cows. The dominant caste youth – in the name of gau raksha – attacked them. The father (Balu[...] -
What's new on leftword.com?
These are exciting times at leftword.com. We've just added two new functionalities to the site. The red circle If you've come to the leftword.com site over the last three or four days, you've probably noticed this little red circle with a question mark: This is a help desk icon. It appears on every page. What it does is enables you to send in your questions to us. When you click on it, this is what you'll see: All you need to do is fill up the email id field and subject line, and then [...]