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हमारे शीर्ष शिक्षण संस्थान जातिवाद के ज़ोर पर चल रहे हैं
दलित, बहुजन और आदिवासी पत्रकार, एकेडेमिक्स और कार्यकर्ताओं की एक ऑनलाइन चर्चा में एक बात साफ़ उभर कर आई—आधुनिक भारत के एकेडेमिया में जातिवाद न सिर्फ़ पनप रहा है, बल्कि यही उसकी मुख्य पहचान है
July 8th 2021
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Indian news media has a representation problem—Let’s do something about this!
Journalists can either continue to blame historical injustices and persist with their old habits, or they can actively start diversifying their reports. A new crowdsourced list aims to accelerate change.
June 29th 2021
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Your silence is an apartheid for us: Grace Banu
As Pride Month comes to a close, we are reminded of a recent powerful speech by engineer Grace Banu. Spare a few minutes for her message to Savarna and cis-gender allies.
June 26th 2021
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Transcript of ‘Get Out of Class’ Webinar on Casteism in Indian Higher Education Institutes
A multimedia transcript of the Webinar ‘Get out of class: Caste and casteism in our top institutions’.
June 2nd 2021
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Casteism keeps our top institutes running
An online discussion between Dalit, Bahujan and Adivasi journalists, academics and activists revealed how casteism thrives in and defines modern Indian academia.
June 1st 2021
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They Decided To Debate Women’s Leadership Skills. Then It Got Worse.
A recent debate reveals misogyny, casteism and queer-trans-phobia in Indian science academia.
January 2nd 2021
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Looking at mental health through Caste
Therapeutic techniques work on the assumption that the cause of distress is only within the individual. However, an individual’s mental health is also affected by various forms of systemic discrimination. So for Dalits, therapy involves narrating trauma from one therapist to another, in the hope that they will eventually find a caste-sensitive professional.
December 17th 2020
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Without interventions, COVID-19 will burn the bridge for STEM education
The recent death by suicide of LSR mathematics student Aishwarya Reddy is a tragic reminder of how STEM careers are not easily afforded. What are some approaches to change that?
November 25th 2020
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A new woke academia & the museumisation of the Dalit experience
Two young scholars make sense of their experiences in a casteist academia that places more importance on political correctness than on actual transformation of material everyday hierarchies.
November 12th 2020