For Aristotle poetry is representation, and the poet a maker of plots rather than verses—even history can be written in…
Yamini Narayanan’s Mother Cow, Mother India: A Multispecies Politics of Dairy in India forces us to confront some difficult questions….
‘In [our struggle], you have to fight against the whole nation—and that too, your own. But it is more important…
milk (synonyms): exploit, bleed, drain, extort, extract, suck, wring, impoverish, pauperize, overcharge, steal, leech, threaten, elicit, empty, evince, exhaust, express,…
In the present moment, emancipatory thought in India is caught in the immobilizing grip of disparate deadlocks. We turn from…
Annihilation of Caste, Babasaheb Ambedkar’s most revolutionary work, was first published on 15 May 1936—eighty-seven years ago today. It is…
In one of his rare moments of public introspection, B.R. Ambedkar wrote to the readers of his periodical Janata about…
On the eve of Ambedkar’s birth centenary on April 14, Ashok Gopal talks about his detailed biography Ashok Gopal, a…
You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt…
The wheel, reinvented, is more lasting Than the stone it is carved into, says Bhim Say Jai Bhim, turn the…
