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Robbing Rohith of His Dalitness

Vol. 52, Issue No. 9, 04 Mar, 2017
Anand Teltumbde

The basic question that the Rohith Vemula case raises is about the existence of the rule of law in India. If his mother Radhika Vemula was rich, there would have been no issue about Rohith’s caste and all people named in the FIR for abetting his suicide would have been in jail. But her fault is that she lived off the pittance that Rohith sent her from his paltry fellowship!

Draupadi’s Travels and Travails

Vol. 51, Issue No. 50, 10 Dec, 2016
Urmimala Sarkar Munsi

Mahasweta Devi’s play Draupadi is an explicit challenge to a vision of statehood that a particular form of socially conservative patriarchal nationalism has long sought to claim. Placing itself within the narratives of exploitation of the lives in the margin and inverting the common practice of shaming and disciplining, this story inverts nakedness into a tool of defiance and resistance. 

Unprecedented Anti-intellectualism

Vol. 51, Issue No. 14, 02 Apr, 2016
International Sociological Association

We, the members of the Executive Committee of the International Sociological Association, express solidarity with students, teachers, writers, creative artists and activists in India fighting for the rights to freedom of expression, life and liberty, in the context of increasingly virulent attack

Scourge of the Scoundrels

Vol. 51, Issue No. 10, 05 Mar, 2016
Anand Teltumbde

The February episode at the Jawaharlal Nehru University conforms to a recent pattern. The Bharatiya Janata Party’s student wing Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, ministers belonging to the party and university administration collude to declare dissent as anti-national.

We are Against Institutional Violence

Vol. 51, Issue No. 7, 13 Feb, 2016
Kanhaiya Kumar

This is the near full text of Kanhaiya Kumar's speech on 11 February where addressed a gathering on the JNU campus. The Hindi speech Kumar delivered was translated by JP Yadav of The Telegraph from a recording uploaded on YouTube. 

Deconstructing Saffron Nationalism

Vol. 51, Issue No. 7, 13 Feb, 2016
Vikas Bajpai

The arrest of Kanhaiya Kumar, the student’s union president in Jawaharlal Nehru University, and subsequent crackdown on all dissent on the campus, is part of a larger design to stifle the voices of anyone going against the policies of the current regime. 

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