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Brahmin residents in Bgudi were deeply upset that the pourakarmikas hadn't been coming to pick up garbage. They went door to door, gathering signatures for a campaign to have them fired. Presently, they are standing outside banging thates. Baraskond saayri nan makkla.
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Savarna snowflakes want "trigger warnings" when they read essays by Dalit women about caste violence. Do you give us "trigger warnings" about your caste blindness?
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A Dalit student I taught 2 years ago was working part time as a Swiggy delivery executive. He was raised by a single mother who took loans to put him through an undergraduate degree.
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Annihilation of Caste was published today in 1936. The book was sold for 8 annas.
Via Arpita Jaya
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If there were no Dalits or Adivasis, what would Savarna journalists write about for The New Yorker and The New York Times? How would they win awards? I just get so worried sometimes.
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Journalism is no one's father's property. A thread.
I've seen a gatekeeping mentality practiced by some journalists in upholding a Brahmanical distinction between what is pure journalism & what isn't, what is serious hard-core journalism & what is chotabheem journalism.
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My 31-yr -old unmarried cousin is a champion. Some boy's family came to 'see her' & whined that she wasn't wearing a saree. They told her that they'd come again the next day but 'please wear saree'.
She was pissed.
We told her to say fuck off to them.
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But what if the person filling up the bike’s fuel is not pure veg?
Shaatam paapam.
Our dedicated Pure Veg Fleet will only serve orders from these pure veg restaurants. This means that a non-veg meal, or even a veg meal served by a non-veg restaurant will never go inside the green delivery box meant for our Pure Veg Fleet.
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Wishing the bestest of everything to
@h_tejas
who is going to Oxford University. Kill it, Tejas! 💙
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Wrote an essay about Pa & his friends. Writing has helped me discover him in ways that I'm too spoilt to notice otherwise.
On some mornings, I'm just so grateful for words.
"I think of the privacy he gives birds when they eat. How he stands behind the door discreetly, & watches them, smiling like a man who has just learnt how to fly. I am glad that trees & birds here are more ours than Basavanagudi & its people."
@rumlolarum
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In the middle of Corona panic, they were more worried about pourakarmikas "not doing their jobs" - so they went to every house, mask-free to collect signatures. Priorities sakkath alva?
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Sit in the classroom, deny that caste & caste violence exists, roll your eyes at Dalit teachers, smile with all your teeth at Savarna teachers (even the lazy ass ones), graduate. Come to twitter, see caste, feel guilty, be woke, keep hate. Congrats, you are a graduate.
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'Gandhi once said that when he ate goat meat, the goat cried in his stomach. I have eaten goat meat many times, but it never cried in my stomach'
- Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd
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How and why is it that dominant caste women who are at the forefront of the Indian
#MeToo
movement can understand consent but not caste?
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Some and all random people feel attacked when Dalit and Bahujan women write.
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Brahmin women in academia who've published several papers on the 'lack of' Dalit women in academia.
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Feels nice to be alive at a time when there is much love for
@iamsrk
when he is also alive. To remember people with love and to talk about them with love in their own time is so rewarding. Happy to be alive, and to read all the SRK stories. Keep 'em coming. We all need it.
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For over a decade & more now,
@dalitwomenfight
has been doing stellar work in reporting & addressing violences against Dalit women. Remember them, support them.
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Happy Birthday to Silk Smitha whose work is a stunning reminder to work, and to keep working.
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She said no, I'll handle it. So she wore saree, flowers, bindi everything. And the boy's family came with a dozen relatives. My cousin stood tall in her saree, smiled lovingly at them and said 'no' to the boy even before he could say yes.
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Trauma. Toxic. Intersectionality. Problematic. Triggering. Toxic masculinity. And other showstopper words for second column at
@thirdeyesocial
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Wrote something for Huffpost.
When you dream about living alone, you become a collector of stories of women living alone. You collect them shyly, like a child collecting rainwater in small palms even as amused neighbours chuckle kindly.
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What's next? You look too happy to be Dalit? You hang out in Koshy's way too often to be Dalit? You read too much fiction for a Dalit?
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Oh ok. So the Savarna colleagues who 'privately' told my students that I am only qualified to polish shoes didn't do anything.
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Good morning. My first published short story will be here. I've dreamt about this for so long. And yet, nothing equals the hunger to keep reading & writing more stories. Here, I wrote the only story I've ever known & told. The one about Mouma, my grandmother. She's why I write ❤
And so we have it. Vol. 7 of our upcoming anthology will have 22 new and original pieces of writing by 21 talented Indian authors around various aspects of Identity. Thanks to
@MridulaKoshy
and
@SumanaSiliguri
for their skill and time and patience with the selection process.
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Brahmin engineer friend from school, with excellent English, (obviously), says she's been reading my writing and wouldn't mind 'editing' my pieces.
Aama. Edit your life, dude.
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Not exactly a great place to be in but in the end, he will have a triple major degree. He can leave the airport security job and apply for IAS if he so wishes or teach or do law. The key word here is 'wishes'
Although not ideal, he still has a choice.
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What the
#NEP
will do, if it comes, is take away that choice from the student. It will offer students multiple exit options at various points in the four-year degree.
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Hi, before asking why we say the same things about caste at every panel we are called to, ask yourself why you keep asking the same question.
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On the day he wrote his final exam, he had a confirmed job in security management at Bengaluru Airport. They'd told him he could come whenever he wanted. But his mother insisted he finish his degree so he could have something to fall back on, in case this job didn't stick.
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When I was asked if sexual harassment is the worst thing to happen to women. I fumed. It ISS, I barked. For Dalit women also? Was it worse than the time when a bunch of Savarna women had ganged up against me and attacked me?
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I like wearing suits now because of you. Appa still wears them, especially at airports- I think he thinks they are like sweaters. He feels warm. I used to laugh at him but now that I also wear them, I know where the warmth comes from.
#HappyAmbedkarJayanti
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Via ಪ್ರಜ್ಞಾವಂತ ಭಾರತಕ್ಕಾಗಿ on FB.
ಎಲ್ಲೋದ್ರಪ್ಪ ಹಿಂದೂ ನಾವೆಲ್ಲ ಒಂದು ಅನ್ನೋರು? (Where are the people who said we are all one, we are all Hindus?)
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The current system doesn't allow such an exit option. He just HAS to get a degree which might be cumbersome at present but will benefit him later.
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The moral of the story is that you are a perfectly good Dalit if you are invisible or better yet - dead. If you want to write, read, teach, be visible, get published, then please get a stamp from the right people who are waiting at the gates, checking your visas.
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Which means that in his second semester, my student will have the option of leaving the course with a diploma so he can continue delivering food when he should be studying.
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Also, at the end of 4 years, for all that multidisciplinary talk it does, the
#NEP
doesn't promise the Dalit student any choice to make a respectable exit from college.
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He had several supplementary exams to give which he is still clearing one by one while continuing to hold that job.
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Here are the mad, brilliant, funny, lovely Dalit women who wrote crazy poems about first love(s), comedy aunts, and eating bananas.
#DalitWomenWrite
@dalitwomenfight
❤
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But I’d like to keep her alive in other ways too – by imagining & believing that she pissed people off because she taught savarnas how to have better sex, that she single-handedly recognized the uselessness of savarna men.
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Showed us that our laughter is as much a part of our protest as pain.
Rest in peace, sir.
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Jittery to see my vada-moonji here. Thrilled to be written about like this, and even more to be read like this. Thank you, Aparna.
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Easily the most slappable face of 2019. Second only to Godi's.
#GobackModi
Take this horror story with you.
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The love of my life, the fire of my heart, Fran Lebowitz once said that she wished people offered creative reading courses instead of creative writing ones. So obviously I had to do something. Share maadi, ishta idre banni :)
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Kumarans, come apologise for this child chapati you have thrown out.
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No other word in the English language is as Savarna as the word 'Nuance'. Ooh, and Merit too.
‘Caste’ is not a system in India as in the West. ‘Caste’ as we understand now is a western creation. Caste is not essential to Hinduism. Hinduism has no caste in some states of India & outside of India. Caste is not same across India. Nuance in understanding caste is necessary.
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I understand your rage but it's time you understand ours too. If the Dalit women here started a
#MeTOO
campaign to out casteist Savarna women, how many of you would still be here?
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If the
#NEP
wants to change lives indeed, it should probably also think about single mothers from the Dalit and Adivasi communities who dream of their children someday getting a degree. Must they now struggle for 4 years before they see this day?
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As a child, my fascination with food came from watching appa eat. His temples bobbed in and out, as if a small, writhing organism was inside.
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Savarna work ethic is sometimes just standing with cow-dung. The answer to that is to keep walking, to keep working & to keep an extra sari in your bag like Savitrimai did. We need it now, we needed it yesterday, & we need it tomorrow. Happy Teachers' Day.
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From the women of my caste, I have learnt that the phrase “I cannot be depressed, I am Dalit” is not something that needs to be fixed – it’s to be dusted and worn proudly.
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Will anyone ever be able to look a Dalit person in the eye and say, “Don’t look happy. Joy is not anti-caste”?
Wrote a thing about close-reading, and the many indigestion problems people tend to have with Dalit women.
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The mute button, anywhere in the world, on any app, is a thing of beauty and joy forever.
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We are slowly, finally alighting on the truth that Dalit families, urban & non-urban, do not occupy the same time & space as real-time news does. We don’t seem to live in real time even though the consequences of our survival play out in real time.
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***Disclaimer and announcement both attached***
My mother grew up in a house full of children. They were 7 but it always seemed like they were seventeen.
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Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a Dalit woman enjoying herself.
-Little Women. Other embellishments, my own.
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One day one day one day
when the world will be empty of men who make it their job to tell women that they aren't doing theirs very well
-that day that day that day
- it will rain-
& I will stand outside with a yellow umbrella and smile.
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Has the task force bothered to look into adding multiple entry points for Dalit students? Or are they happy to not have them enter college campuses?
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The discreet disappointment of the Savarnas when they discover that the Dalit accounts they were told to follow are only posting cat videos.
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Feeling the most uncontrollable urge to know what Babasaheb was like when he was in love.
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Two things I really loved about writing this piece. My column is called 'Throwing Chalk' courtesy bomb writer
@chasingiamb
& this sexy illustration by the very amazing Priyanka Paul.
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"If I'm crying this much, I don't know what my ancestors had to go through" -- Heart is full. Bed is wet. With my pee, comrades. Too much laughter is bad for the bedè, as the French say.
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Asking "do you really think?" 101 times is not a ticket out of anything. This is further proof that you don't even have to know how to spell *caste* to be casteist assholes.
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Despite the very little help some departments receive from colleges/states, they are doing what they can to keep classrooms diverse. We can understand if the
#NEP
can't see that, but is it too much to ask that they leave us alone?
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Ambedkar wasn’t just a writer when he was writing — he was also a lawyer, a historian, a poet, a mathematician -- bringing us to the long overdue recognition of Ambedkar as, first and foremost, an artist before he is anything else.
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This is the most excellent way to ensure Babasaheb's vision. After reading Manusmriti, no self-respecting human being will want to remain Hindu.
Manusmriti (the first Dharmashastra or legal constitution of Bharat) must be taught to every Indian child so that they understand the greatness of Hindu way of thought.
The reason a lot of people aren’t proud of our past is because they don’t know their real roots.
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Never thought it would be possible for someone to not understand either Caste-system or Harry Potter at the same time.
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It pisses them off to see that we are writing, teaching, surviving. But Ambedkar taught me to keep working despite who says what & it’s what I’m going to do. If that screws with your plans, Jai Bhim to you.
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Dalit women activists talking about their experiences with upper caste men who threatened them when they were trying to put together a fact finding report about the rape and murders of Dalit women in Haryana and Jharkhand is not journalism?
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Someday I want to see Dalit writers writing fiction for The New Yorker, I want to see them writing food essays for Gourmet, I want to see them screen their films at every international film festival. Is that wrong? Is it wrong to want those things for myself?
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I kept fiddling with my phone through dinner
because I was fascinated
that every time I tried to type love,
I miss the o and hit i instead.
I live you is a mistake I make so often,
I wonder if it’s not
what I’ve been really meaning to say
~Jamaal May
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Tweeple,
This is happening. The course is open to all & will be conducted at St. Joseph's College, Bangalore (Langford Road campus) Please share with peeps who will be interested. Registrations close over this weekend, i.e, 31 August 2019.
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I'm working on a story about what women do to deal with marriage pressure. If you have a story, please DM or put it here :)
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A Dalit writer talking about Savarna gatekeeping in film writing/criticism is not journalism? A Dalit Transwoman, talking about her struggles with identity & writing her autobiography is not journalism?
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Apparently Dalits need to stand in a queue and take permission before putting Babasaheb's picture on their SM accounts these days. For a nation that has been standing in one queue or another since 2014, this is a different kind of comedy.
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My goal is to keep students interested in life, in writing, and in wanting to become independent. And again this is subject to what they want to do. If that doesn’t allow me to be a godmother, I am ok with that.
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Precious Toni Morrison calmly burning white peeps with nothing but kindness.
Toni Morrison’s knife is so sharp, you don’t even realize that she’s slit your throat.
#ToniMorrison
#WhenIGrowUp
#IAmTheMainstream
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Now dumbfuck men who will pounce on this thread and say look look - fuck off. Not talking to you- go away. This is between us and them.
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Watching films with strangers in a theatre is so comforting. It's the only smiling thing in this mad world & what I most want to return to. I'm jealous of the vision of myself sitting alone, stuffing face with caramel popcorn & looking forward to a new story to be swallowed in.
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I didn't know what to say because it was true. Savarna women ganging up and preventing me from working IS the worst thing to have happened to me. Worse than that asshole uncle who molested me. Worse than all the times I must have escaped possible rape.
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But don’t mansplain Dalit women about what journalism is. Some of us have survived without your mentorship all these years, & will perhaps continue to survive. The goal of most writing courses is not as ambitious as producing Pulitzer Prize winners or even hard core journalists.
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Only mad student stories keep me going these days.
@esshhh__
tells me that in school, a boy who was putting line for her wrote her a love letter in blood. The teacher took him to the principal, where the boy confessed that it wasn't his blood it seems, it was a chicken's.
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