Nrithya
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Pig faced woman who hates everyone. Dance a pieced together Bharathanatyam occasionally ! I dance because THEY did (MBC)
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A javali I learnt through a recording of Bengaluru nagarathnammal given to me by Prof Davesh Soneji .I later found it was performed in the arangetram of Akshaya’s grandmother ,was surprised to learn that my maternal grandfather Swamimalai Rajarathnam had sung for her. (1/3)
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Okay akka , remember how you introduced me as a descendant of “devadasis” to some girls outside Natya Kala Conference in 2019. That made me immensely uncomfortable and disgusted ! FYI ! Don’t do it again
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Decolonising in the context of India means going back to Brahmin supremacy and normalising caste oppression. Because wasn't that the normal before the colonisers got here? Not surprised by all those savarnas doing decolonisation projects .
#decolonise
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In today's
#Tamilnadu
#statebudget
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@ptrmadurai
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I am from an OBC caste location , my father is a retired scientist from ISRO - he is probably one of the most educationally qualified aerospace engineer in his field of expertise !
According to a 2020 *report, 38% of ISRO's workforce is female, 52% are from the general category, 22% are from the Other Backward Classes (OBC), 14% are from the Scheduled Castes (SC), and 2% are from the Scheduled Tribes (ST).
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Nearly a 100-150 years ago women from my caste location were criminalised for dressing up&dancing .Women in our families were branded as morally fallen ,we lost access to dance &its history.Brahmin women gained access and were called saviours of the dance .
#bharathanatyam
(1/3)
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Super Jodi -
Inseparable like Orientalism and Brahminism ….
Curry eating Genocide mongers !!
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For many women with courtesanal pasts in the Hindu religion, association with brahminism and the Hindu right has provided some relief, they have sometimes been able to practice their art and achieve success as artists. Lata Mangeshkar is an example of this.
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This is Bharatanatyam and other CLASSical art forms today - stolen forms that were grafted on to bodies of women. from “respectable” castes in the 1930s and are today vehicles for militant Jai Shri Ram Hindu nationalism !
Abhi koi Rahim Chacha™ kisi kone mein baith ke namaaz padh lein toh sabki maut aa jayegi 🤪🤪🤪
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What is different from when my Nattuvanar grandfather Rajarathnam taught dance on Sundays and when I do now ? I freely talk about my Sunday lunch and don’t feel shame and embarrassment about the wafting smells of Mutton biriyani from the kitchen . :).
#mutton
#bharathanatyam
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A prominent Brahmin musician who I later metood (who was called out by several other women) while he was talking to me over phone told me my “blouseless” ancestors would have danced in front of his ancestors . The discomfort and tears I have shed ! So hurtful!!
As a young girl from a caste location that is stigmatised and spoken about in a derogatory manner by the present day practitioners of “classical” art , I have myself gone through many cases of abusive behaviour of a sexual nature by powerful men in these fields .
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can we talk about how hinduism and tamil culture is oppressive towards it's women ?
Thali policing -wearing this disgusting looking fat chain is made into some romantic shit dream. Even most tamil romance film songs have lines where the woman desires the thali... Yuck
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Why is this an abuse ?
Homophobia , body shaming is Hindu culture :)
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My caste is classified as a Most Backward caste , I have many times spoken of the specific social stigma that is attached to my caste location because of having had the practice of concubinage that some women in this caste group had been subjected to until 100/150 yrs ago. (1/2)
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Imagine what the idea of marriage , marital life as the only source of respectability does to women? I was married at 19 &suffered an abusive marriage. I refused the judgement of society , family to affect my choice to get out of the marriage.
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TW : casteism
Last night I went on a spiral ,found these screen shots that were taken be4 Radhika Ganesh blocked me . Brahmin performative woke progressives have 0 accountability , they use their power to silence and police marginalised caste persons… happened some years ago .
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The deepest and most important way caste thrives in the arts like bharathanatyam and Carnatic music today is through notions of “virtuosity” - the aesthetic that is upheld as “correct” , “beautiful” is where Brahminism thrives.(1/4)
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Will never forget the time Anita Ratnam , Mallika Sarabhai and Swarnamalya Ganesh went as “brown bodies in Global dance” and shared the platform with Australian indigenous artists . Whitest or white in India , but brown and oppressed outside India .Such a special phenomenon this!
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The director of Kalakshetra Revathi Ramachandran has left the scene without giving students the written statement . Students tried to hold her accountable but in vain … a long night drew to an end after she complained of palpitations and left the scene in a police vehicle
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Like how I was told I am educated,my father teaches at IIT, my brother is in the US ,therefore I am not "subaltern" enough to speak about hereditary bharathanatyam history?that too by a brahmin like Swarnamalya Ganesh? It's not just her,every other brahmin dancer does this to me!
Because I need to LOOK like I’m suffering for me to have any experience of suffering? You need Dalits to look like victims for them to have a voice. Once we stop fitting your idea of ‘lowerness’ our suffering’s gone?
Regardless of who I represent, it’s not faceless trolls like u
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Chinmayi is a victim of sexual abuse &gender based abuse, violence.Her perpetrator walks free &exhibits political power. I believe ,stand by her.Her tweets for me are about a woman with caste privilege questioning the system-there are many times that her takes are casteblind:(
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Have made this decision that I won’t attend religious caste endogamous marriages which have rituals and uphold casteist patriarchal ideals . Lucky I was barred from weddings in my family after walking out of a ghastly marriage at 19 & long drawn divorce proceedings that followed!
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Perfect oppressor , perfect victim. Guess who ?
The Brahmin woman
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Kalakshetra college being closed !! Students asked to vacate hostel in two days ! Students upset and disappointed! Students going to stay on and continue protest until justice is served
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Some practitioners have now started to begin Bharathanatyam performances with a Hereditary acknowledgement statement, which I think is maybe a good first step in acknowledging the problematic history of Bharathanatyam.
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It is really disappointing to see the comments that body shame ,slut shame & delegitimise the experiences undergone by
@kirubamunusamy
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Birju Maharaj as a phenomenon is emblematic of the angst post independent India’s brahmin cultural nationalists had with creating a distinct “Brahminic Indian(Hindu)” identity of arts and culture erasing the names and contributions of so many women(in the case of Kathak ,tawaifs)
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Won’t stop naming and calling out Brahmin and Savarna women who have subject me to casteist exclusionary experiences. When it comes to the “Indian”Arts ,they hold disproportionate amounts of power and influence - they gatekeep and control - these spaces are unsafe for many of us!
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We have to question Brahmin cultural nationalists who were beneficiaries of cultural appropriation and the disenfranchisement of lower caste dancers to question all the oppressive structures that are upheld today in
CLASSical dance and institutions like Kalakshetra.
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Yes no divorce , men just “abandoned” women , could marry any number of “ girls” from their caste location and could have concubines from lower caste locations - that is BHARATIYA CULTURE - a culture of casteist oppression, rape and violence !
The one and only Dr. Ambedkar. He is the one who made it possible for women like me to kick men like you out of our lives.
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When I question this absurdity , I am called angry and vicious .
I simply think nothing has changed . Caste power allows you to appropriate and re appropriate , claim ownership of the new and the old . (3/3)
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It's not the time to be celebrating benevolent brahmins, their goodness or how they helped a few bahujans and dalits. This takes us farther away from questioning what put them in that place of privilege where they become saviours and leaders that we need to celebrate.
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As someone from a formerly courtesan caste,I must say these perverse,historically incorrect imaginations & recreations of the "Hindoo temple dance&dancers" only adds on to oppression of young women from these castes. It simply makes you "wokes" feel great about having saved women
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When the word devadasi is erased , when caste based slur "thevidiya" is banned, when Bharathanatyam history is revised ,when brahmin &uc women stop dressing up as devadasis, when casteist society stops subjecting me to oppression,stigma-only then for me caste would be annihilated
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I came from the uprooted nose of Soorpanaka... I am soorpanka. I continue to be disrespected, harassed and VIOLATED. I will not go to the temple, nor will my descendants.
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Tweet 1 - too tired to write but want to share my distress.
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If ignorance and arrogance had a face it would be this !
உங்களுக்கு ரொம்ப தெரியுமா? -
#AbhiramiVenkatachalam
Press Meet
FULL SPEECH:
#BiggBossTamil
#Kalakshetra
#kalakshetracollege
#KalakshetraIssue
#Abhirami
#Cineulagam
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I am so disappointed by all those tributes on the passing away of Pt Birju Maharaj, some by so called progressive voices from the dance world.I am surprised they "didn't know" about the abuse and the misuse of power that were mostly open secrets within the dance fraternity
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As a young girl from a caste location that is stigmatised and spoken about in a derogatory manner by the present day practitioners of “classical” art , I have myself gone through many cases of abusive behaviour of a sexual nature by powerful men in these fields .
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#Heeramandi
and for that matter any project on “courtesans” with such fetishised, glorifying gaze is all about the need of elitist Indians to uphold casteist ideals and relive aristocratic authoritarian pasts imagining themselves as the benevolent “patrons” & beneficiaries !(1/2)
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We continue to suffer social stigma and discrimination.
From the 1990s , we have Brahmin women dressing up as “devadasis” and dancing pre reform dances. Now they are celebrated as saviours again.
(2/3)
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Absolutely ! Thanks to affirmative action I have had access to education , been able to articulate band fight exclusionary casteist oppression tactics of ucs who have gatekept education and articulation. So yes very proud of my vocabulary and writing skills
@vettrikondan786
@nrithyapillai
learning to use words like Orientalism, Brahminism
Genocide mongers😂
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When there is a fight between the priestly hindutva brahmins and the secular brahmin it's best to just watch the show!
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Appa.. All this Bharathanatyam aesthetic moral policing around the videos of Radhika Merchant's Arangetram?How come peeps forget Arangetrams were always a display of caste power and money? Rukmini Devi,one fine day decided to do one, in less than a year of learning , remember?
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Post a villain who people treat like a hero :
Appropriator in Chief ;)
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This is a midnight post but here is hum dekhenge from my performance today after which I spoke of standing against growing tides of islamophobia in India and across the globe
#againsthate
#notohindutva
#palestine
#ukraine
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Here it is.... Dancing in Philadelphia for Penn. Critical Perspectives on Bharathanatyam. Reserve your tickets if you are in and around Philadelphia!!!
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Yes I have always had a side crush on Bengali lalparshada .. wore this when I went as a special guest for a theatre production by Chennai Kalai KuZhu
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Last year , I was at UPenn ,I had to present at this conference ,“Caste , Community,Capital” - I was the only person without an academic degree background. I was terrified ,everyone was well dressed &smart ,I wondered if I could fit in .Here is what I wore on the day I presented!
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This has been my issue with Brahmin and caste privileged scholars in ”dance academia” -
Blaming the colonisation , and not recognising their part in oppressive power structures , forever playing victim , using their brownness for grants while being whitest of white back home !
How is it that oppressor caste folks who call out colonialism for exploitation, plundering resources, destroying Indian ‘culture’, appropriation, looting, human rights violation etc……simply fail to see that their own communities have done/doing the same in the name of caste?
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Whatever is called Carnatic music today has many many contributions of people ,of elements from different marginalised backgrounds- castes , religions. The histories , sanskritic,Vedic contextualisations are meant to exclude these complex histories of the music of southern India!
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The brahmin dancer can say there is casteism in bharathanatyam dance fraternity and lose nothing.
The dalit dancer can say there is NO CASTE within bharathanatyam dance fraternity &still not get everything.
Different varnas,different politics! This is how VARNASHRAMA IS ALIVE.
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Students protest inaction , demand the suspension of alleged perpetrator Prof Hari Padman . Meanwhile he is still going to be performing with the Kalakshetra troupe tomorrow at Hyderabad !!
#Kalakshetra
#protest
#students
#safety
#TakeAction
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A lot of caste groups may be casteist but nobody makes casteism and caste pride “cool” like
#tambrahms
;)
A lot of political parties may be corrupt in India but nobody has made corruption cool like BJP did.
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Mental health at an all time low … the genocide , the radical violence of hindutva and realisations of how insidious caste class networks are , how hard it is to be taken seriously , how much gaslighting there is when I speak of rejection and denial of access .
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Thevadiyal: You may have heard this word from your surroundings, from your peers, from your parents, from cinemas or anywhere else. This can be called the most offensive term used to disgrace a female in the Tamil language.
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Savarna women make everything a gender issue and an “all women are oppressed” issue . Nope it doesn’t work that way . The greatest oppression and delegitimisation I face is by Savarna women !
Follow the truth. This is not a gender issue. I am not feeding your troll, madam, not anymore.
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Tactic 2
Savarna women delegitimise the critique of men who call out their caste privilege by calling them unsafe &misogynist!
Tactic 1 is finding ,co-opting &collaborating with others from more marginalised /similar marginalised identities as those calling them out .
#deflect
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I refuse to engage with anyone who portrays me as some dumbbitch, who is controlled by some patriarchal forces, that too from Canada and Amreeka! I REFUSE. Violent brahmin women want to scrap the words appropriation, brahmin hegemony, privilege, & do "canwetalk" on Devadasi Wah!
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This battle on Sangeeta Kalanidhi is not of relevance to me - music academy institutionalised music&dance-this is the institution that was the hot bed of brahminic cultural nationalism of the1930s, that had the involvement of individuals like E Krishna Iyer (contd) (1)
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Post your meals 💜 - millet lemon rice , 1 1/2eggs , beans poriyal and tangy tomato thokku
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For a state with the greatest literacy rate , a large percentage of left inclined progressive people and a history of communist governments ruling the state -there are so many cases of dowry deaths and suicides due to domestic abuse from Kerala.
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Keeping away from savarnas -they benefit from my discourse and writings and better their understandings and then silence ,tone police and gas light me .Somehow their caste affiliations always take priority . I have realised relationships with them will always be a one way street
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Fifth generation needs to be “woke” palestine sympath using Bharatanatyam to protest “intellectual”
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How to call out your Savarna Bae 101 💜
Bellies ah?
Basically kalakshetra is near the beach cuz it’s stolen land from fisher folks
Brahmin serenity always comes at the cost of displacement of indigenous people :D
Amidst the gloom around, it’s important to appreciate what’s around you.
#Kalakshetra
sits on the beach not far from here, and yet it bellies the serenity the beach provides
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Bharathanatyam is mired in a problematic past.Beginning in the 1930s, it was reinvented as a nationalist project at the hands of upper-caste elites, and the contours of that reinvention still have implications and resonances today.
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Students of Kalakshetra are asking for solidarity here . It shouldn’t have to come to this . This is unprecedented. We should all be doing our part in amplifying the situation. I stand by the victims , swift remedial action needs to be brought about
#takeaction
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⚫️16th century masjid that was erased to build a 21st century temple for the Hindu Nation State ⚫️20th century reinvented dances that are dances of the Hindu Nation State ⚫️Rewritten histories that will make us forget , systems working for a Brahminic Indian Nation state . (1/2)
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Vulgar much to bite lips during abhinayam in Bharathanatyam? nahhhh .....I don't think so.
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Brahmins couldn’t touch skin , the maddalam ( precursor to mridhangam) was played by shudra and avarna castes , the flute again involves saliva , again taboo for Brahmins . Such ahistoric rubbish that Brahmins need to think WHO was let in !
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Let’s talk of “woke”Brahmin women tactics when it comes to addressing caste after making cultural capital from appropriated arts of sudras . Anita Ratnam , Prasanna Ramaswamy etc who deflect accountability by “collaborating” with Dalit activists to address CASTE !
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Okay this is going to be funny - I am looking for a singer to work with me for Bharathanatyam concerts who identifies as anti caste progressive and is willing to put in the effort to work together with me . My bharathanatyam is critical , politicised…
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Richest + Educated = who ?
Let’s talk caste demographics
South Delhi and Bangalore South are the most richest and educated constituencies of India.
They both elected Ramesh Bhiduri and Tejasvi Surya.
Education and Money cannot wash away bigotry.
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Imagine the stigma and exclusion I might have faced as someone who walked out of an endogamous marriage at 19 ; the respectability associated with marriage is multifold when compared to other castes . I have had NO social gatherings within family from when I was 19 !(2/2)
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It is hard to not see during my interactions with savarnas as to how all their generational privileges open doors for them , how their happy relationships are all an outcome of their caste class location and how everything is so much more easier for them.
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When questions about oppressors of one kind and the oppression of the guru sishya parampara are being spoken about, will there be questions about the oppression of the casteist origins and the present day realities of the dance fraternity?
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Looking forward to this amazing conference and happy to be part of Panel 3 on "Culture" with
@beemji
,
@sakie339
and
@KotwalMeena
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Kalakshetra director covered up a food poisoning outbreak in the middle of the pandemic
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The reason I am able to call out these powerful folks is ONLY because I have given up on wanting to dance or be part of their CLIQUE! I take it upon myself to make people see how horribly casteist the Indian CLASSIcal Arts world is ! That is all I want !
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Wrote this on the Kalakshetra issue - we need to think of the larger picture to understand the skewed power dynamics between patriarchal figures and the dancing bodies .
#Kalakshetra
#sexualabuse
#caste
#equity
#skewedpowerdynamics
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Rainy summer morning in Chennai means you sneak a brunch date with your partner …
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I am sure some of you know of the targeted bullying and casteist discriminatory behaviour I have been facing. The recent episode of a long running campaign by the website narthaki to vilify and denigrate me and my work has led to some academics drafting this statement.
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This oversexualized , black face like dress up devadasi act of a privileged caste woman makes me very very uncomfortable . Does it make you uncomfortable?
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Starting the year dancing .. begin the year grateful for having a stronger support system than before .
VC
@kunalshankar
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I am from a Sudra caste,our men made careers outta teaching brahmin women dancing after dancing by our women was criminalised,history reduces them to being prostitutes, Social stigma is part of my lived experience,yet I have to fight social conditioning/ bias to be anticaste!
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Don’t understand the obsession of Brahmin women who want to dress up as “devadasis”,who want to dance “sadir” &other “devadasi dances”of the PAST ,who want to create plays on devadasis from 18th century and act in them (full Brahmin cast )-the need to steward discourse 💯 SAD
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And for a Sunday lunch - red leheriya saree with a cotton Kutch embroidered blouse ..
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Not only did we see videos of students at the Kalakshetra protest talking about sexual abuse , but some even spoke of being asked their caste backgrounds, being profiled and marks/opportunities being decided on this basis.
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I’m from a caste background toward whom verbal violence and misogynistic language is used , without second thought - the B swear words both b**tch &b***ard are something that reminds me of how we live in a terribly dysfunctional patriarchy driven world . But I understand rage!(1)
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Tactic 5 : tell marginalised person they are privileged because they can speak and write in coloniser’s language (ENGLISH) :D
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