Routes

Debate Dissent Deliver

Menu

  • Home
  • Blog Posts
  • Features
  • Multimedia
  • Interviews
  • About
  • Notes for Contributors
  • Announcements
  • A Murder by other means : Death of a Dalit Journalist

    On April 12th, Nagaraju Koppula lost his battle with cancer, and casteism. A Dalit journalist working in India, Nagaraju faced caste discrimination his entire life—a discrimination that ultimately worked to

    Read more »
  • WATCH // Udita (Arise): a film on garment making in Bangladesh

    On April 24th 2013, the Rana Plaza building collapsed in Bangladesh. Over 1,130 workers were killed and thousands more were left injured. These workers were producing garments for consumers in

    Read more »
  • Cricket, Caste and the Nation State

    It was curtains for South Asia when the Indian cricket team lost to a formidable Australian team at the semi-finals of the International Cricket Council’s World Cup championship on Thursday.

    Read more »
  • Practices of Visual Culture: Cutouts and its Materiality as a Plebeian Political Aesthetic

    Politics in India has certain unique characteristics which can hardly be found elsewhere and one element which has drawn quite a formidable amount of attraction is its practices of visual

    Read more »
  • The younger generation of Syrian refugees in Turkey: Forced to be precocious, but where does their future lie?

    The prolonged state of the Syrian civil war led to the huge outflow of Syrian refugees to its neighboring countries like Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq. The registered number of

    Read more »
  • Feminist Initiative: A Conversation with Linda Hiltmann

    Sweden, which has stood apart from the rest of Europe with its “progressive” economic and political position (it has managed to withstand the recession despite keeping its welfare policy intact,

    Read more »
  • Ferguson and the Long Life of Slavery

    “We who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes.” – Ella Baker Darren Wilson, a white police officer who shot an unarmed black, eighteen-year-old Michael Brown on August 9,

    Read more »
  • #MyDressMyChoice: The day we defeated silence

    In Nairobi, Kenya, women are demanding respect. They want to re-claim their bodies. They are condemning the humiliating public stripping of three Kenyan women earlier in the month. On this

    Read more »
  • Sex Workers in Kolkata Celebrate Durga Puja

    Until last year, Kolkata’s sex workers were prevented from joining in with the city’s elaborate celebrations for Durga Puja – the most anticipated Hindu festival in the Bengali calendar. This

    Read more »
  • Dear Airport Security Officer

    Dear Airport Security Officer, I noticed your slim shirt, sharp tie, and crisp hair from the passport check queue and found myself wondering if your shoes are as polished as

    Read more »

The Ideology of Male Indispensability: Upper Caste Experiments with Patriarchy

January 5, 2017 Leave a comment

by Chittibabu Padavala We men are the least qualified to speak about an issue like this. It’s time for us to listen. It must be

Edinburgh to celebrate Festival of Indian Films and Documentaries

September 6, 2016 Leave a comment

The first Edinburgh Festival of Indian Films & Documentaries (EFIFD) sweeps across Scotland’s capital city of Edinburgh from Wednesday 7th to Sunday 11th September 2016.Hosted

Göttingen stands up for annihilation of caste

August 14, 2016 2 comments

A huge mobilization of Dalits (former Untouchables) rages in the state of Gujarat, India whereby recently Dalits had to face caste violence. A few weeks

Dr.B.R.Ambedkar Lecture at University of Edinburgh

May 17, 2016 Leave a comment

In this brilliant Dr.Ambedkar lecture delivered by Prof. David Mosse, Professor of Social Anthropology and Head of the Department of Anthropology and  Sociology, through two

Towards ex-brahminization: The Everyday Life of The Brahmin Male

May 11, 2016 Leave a comment

Gajendran Ayyathurai* What happens to a human when she is called a broken person, an oppressed person, an ex-untouchable, a lower-caste person and so on

CONVERTING THE OUTCAST: FROM MUKERJI TO SHRADDHANAND

April 30, 2016 Leave a comment

Like all Hindus, somewhere deep down inside me I had assumed that Harijans (Dalits), Gandhi’s supposed “children of God,” relegated to the fringes of society,

Subaltern Symbolism: The Cartoon Furore in Context

April 28, 2016 Leave a comment

Reams of newsprint, hours of air-time and extensive analysis were devoted to the ‘cartoon controversy’ in 2012. It has been covered from so many angles

Oppression, “Progressive” Law and Labour in India: The 1918 Report on Agricultural Labourers by Madras Presidency’s Collector J. Gray

April 26, 2016 One comment

Introduction What follows is an excerpt from a book whose main argument is that the way Dalit oppression was first defined by the colonial state,

A Tribute to Babasaheb Ambedkar

April 23, 2016 Leave a comment

Baba 1 baba, you left this world before I came you hang as a memory now on our rusty mud wall a beaming portrait inside

Ballads, Statues and Symbols : Microhistories of Anti-Caste Protests

April 20, 2016 Leave a comment

Key feature of Dalit histories are the numerous struggles and sacrifices of martyrs who were either subsumed under larger identities or denied place in the

India, the United Nations, and Moving Beyond Anti-Colonialism

April 17, 2016 Leave a comment

The Indian government’s reaction to the recent UN Special Report on Minorities makes clear the limitations of its anti-imperial human rights history. On March 15

The Life and Times of Rettamalai Srinivasan

April 15, 2016 One comment

Hailing from a political and intellectual tradition that precedes the Dravidian movement, Rettamalai Srinivasan is a social justice icon who carried a indomitable spirit fighting

University of Edinburgh to celebrate Dalit History Month

March 28, 2016 One comment

Caste is a very complex social phenomenon. Typified by social stratification and preserved through endogamy, it designates ritual status in a hierarchy where everyday social

Mohan Bhagwat’s Nazism with Chinese characteristics

March 19, 2016 Leave a comment

The biggest blunder anybody can commit while responding to the statements of Hindu Nazists, however critical your response or analysis may be, is to miss

#StandWithJNU: Solidarity Statement by Academics in the UK

February 19, 2016 Leave a comment

We, the undersigned, stand in solidarity with the students, faculty, and staff of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). We condemn the BJP government-sanctioned police action in

A Dalit Marxist Manifesto

February 6, 2016 Leave a comment

Unlike many of my comrades, I have this peculiar problem of leftist trolls, rather than the rightist ones. Since I do not believe in the

Colombia: Students Tell Amazing Stories

February 5, 2016 Leave a comment

This blog post was written by Gwen Burnyeat(i) and was commissioned and originally published by Latin America Bureau. You can read the original here’ Students

A study of response to suicides of Dalit students

February 5, 2016 One comment

A study of the responses to suicides by Dalit and other marginalised students in higher educational institutions in India throws up a disturbing picture of

`Heart of Darkness: Some Thoughts on Rohith Vemula’s Suicide

January 20, 2016 2 comments

The pan-Indian outrage which has also reached Harvard Square in the US over scholar and Dalit activist Rohith Vemula’s suicide seems to establish our present

Open Letter to the University of Hyderabad Vice Chancellor on Rohith Vemula

January 19, 2016 Leave a comment

Open Letter to the Vice Chancellor of the University of Hyderabad We of the global scholarly community make an urgent appeal that justice be done

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Creative Commons

Creative Commons License
Unless otherwise stated, all content published on this website is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Blog at WordPress.com.
Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy
  • Follow Following
    • Routes
    • Join 85 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Routes
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Copy shortlink
    • Report this content
    • View post in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...