‘Struggle for social change is the DNA of Dalit literature’

Academics discuss writing, civil rights, and Gavai shoe-flinging incident at centenary function of Ambedkarite writer M N ...

CPI(ML) fields former JNUSU president among its 20 candidates

CPI(ML) fields former JNUSU president Dhananjay Kumar, a Dalit PhD scholar, from Bihar's Bhore constituency. He joins Kanhaiya Kumar and Aisha Ghosh a ...

Activist Dalit Subbaiah lives on in a stirring documentary about his protest music

Dalit Subbaiah uses animation to recreate its subject’s formative years. Born Karuppan Pichai in 1952, he was renamed ...

A timely literary listicle

LGBT History Month commemorates the marches on Washington for LGBTQ rights in October 1979 and 1987. Here’s a list of ...

Three Indian rappers whose music serves as resistance and as record

The work of Mahi G, Dule Rocker, and Aman Kachhap is infused with the conviction that rap can serve as resistance and as ...