Ava Duvernay’s significant film Origin finally dropped on Netflix in India last week, after playing at the Venice and Toronto International Film Festivals in 2023. DuVernay is a powerful director, ...

Adapting a non-fiction book into a narrative feature film is no mean feat. But adapting a non-fiction book that explores the social stratification system of caste, argues for a different way of ...

Read more about the extraordinary schools that give India's Dalit girls a chance at a better life by clicking here. The origin of the caste system is a contentious subject. There are historians and ...

The man in the crowd -- Part One. Toxins in the Permafrost and Heat Rising all Around -- The afterlife of pathogens -- The vitals of history -- An old house and an infrared light -- An American ...

Caste hierarchy is the major obstacle to the goal of social justice and it continues to be a major obstacle to social progress even today. There are many theories, which have tried to understand its ...

One word that still thrives in India and continues to challenge society is caste. The word originated in Spain and was later used by Portuguese, and it was the British who institutionalised it within ...

Aravindan Neelakandan in his ‘A Dharmic Social History of India’ has sought to deconstruct the widely held views on the Indian caste system. That the Indian caste system is rigid has been a view ...

Sindhu Rajasekaran’s book is a Savarna reimagining of queerness, glossing over the dominance of caste in shaping desire, ...

Occasionally, we encounter historical phenomena that are shockingly repulsive in retrospect. These serve as cautionary roadmaps of human decisions and actions to avoid at all costs in the future.

The man in the crowd -- Part one. Toxins in the permafrost and heat rising all around. The afterlife of pathogens -- An old house and an infrared light -- An American untouchable -- Part two. The ...