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The Law Is Casteist: Part 2
Lawyers Disha Wadekar and Nikita Sonavane give deep and searing insight into their personal and intellectual understanding of the inherent casteist bias of the Indian legal system, based on their many years of work and engagement as lawyers and researchers.
DISHA WADEKAR & NIKITA SONAVANE
December 02, 2020
The Law is Casteist
Lawyers Disha Wadekar and Nikita Sonavane give deep and searing insight into their personal and intellectual understanding of the inherent casteist bias of the Indian legal system, based on their many years of work and engagement as lawyers and researchers.
DISHA WADEKAR & NIKITA SONAVANE
November 06, 2020
Caste and Gender: A Systemic Obliteration of Justice
The legal system, rather than effectively and actively working to hold those who commit caste-based crimes accountable for their actions, has instead become a space for further discrimination. This is due to an intrinsic casteist psychology that is rampant in the Indian bureaucracy and judiciary.
SANTVANA KUMAR
October 24, 2020
‘A silk weaver can only weave silk, he cannot wear it.’
The Tamil film, Kanchivaram, explores the exploitation of weavers in Tamil Nadu through the story of its protagonist Vengadam, who belongs to the traditional silk weaving community, and is set within a period that saw weavers struggling with economic inequality and rapidly rising suicide rates.
SAACHI D'SOUZA
September 28, 2020
‘External independence is quite compatible with internal slavery’
As Ambedkar had predicted, Indian ‘independence’ did not change a great deal for many Dalit communities.As Ambedkar had predicted, Indian ‘independence’ did not change a great deal for many Dalit communities.
DURGA SOLANKI & RAJYASHRI GOODY
August 15, 2020
