Aakrosh and Article 15: Four decades apart yet similar flaws in addressing Caste-based Violence
Two Hindi films, Aakrosh (1980) and Article 15 (2019), almost four decades apart addressed violence perpetrated by savarna caste groups
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Caste
The Kallumaala Samaram- Why is it denied its significant place in History?
Caste oppression was in its heyday, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Kerala (then Travancore), a fact observed by
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When B R Ambedkar was Briefly a Film Critic
Publisher: Critical Quest, New Delhi Dr. B.R. Ambedkar had donned many a hats in his lifetime. He was an economist,
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Kula Kalvi Thittam (1953) and Relaxation of Child Labour Laws (2015): An Allegorical Reading.
This is an account of two political stories, one which unfolded more than five decades ago and another which still
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Abstract: The following is an eyewitness account, and the musings that follow, of two little girls sweeping the roof of
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