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Sep 11, 2024 | 
outlookindia.com | Rakhi Bose |K. Nitya Kalyani
National Among Manipur's tribals, there is a fear that the tenuous unity achieved after years of inter and intra-tribal rivalry and bloodshed could be undone by sub-categorisation in reservation Future Tense?: A child walks past graffiti in Kangpokpi, Manipur Photo: Sandipan Chatterjee Future Tense?: A child walks past graffiti in Kangpokpi, Manipur Photo: Sandipan Chatterjee Twenty-four-year-old J’s* (name withheld) mother was pregnant with him in June, 1997, when the Paite-Kuki conflict...
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Anand Mishra |Nirupama Subramanian |M.G. Radhakrishnan |K. Nitya Kalyani
As much as people like talking about eliminating caste, there are no signs that it is going away anytime soon, or even becoming less important, either socially or politically. On August 1, 2023, the Patna High Court, giving its go-ahead to a caste survey in Bihar, noted that “despite attempts to efface it from the social fabric, caste remains a reality and refuses to be swept aside, wished away, or brushed aside nor does it wither away and disperse into thin air”.
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Mitali Mukherjee |K. Nitya Kalyani |G. N. Devy |Smita Gupta
India’s stock market crashed on June 4 as it became clear that the BJP would not make it past the halfway mark alone and that this was going to be an NDA-led coalition with much more say for regional partners on the one hand, and a much stronger opposition on the other. Indian stocks saw their worst intraday fall in four years: foreign investors dumped close to $1.5 billion worth of Indian shares and domestic investors also sold over Rs.3,300 crore.
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Jun 9, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Vivek Katju |K. Nitya Kalyani |Mitali Mukherjee |G. N. Devy
On May 14, a day after the 2004 Lok Sabha election result, Afghanistan’s then President, Hamid Karzai, called me to his office in the Arg Palace, in Kabul. As I entered the chamber he asked: “Ambassador, what happened?” Karzai, a student of political science, including a postgraduate degree in Shimla, has an interest in Indian politics. He had followed the election on his satellite television and, as one of his aides told me later, was riveted as the results came in.
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Jun 9, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | K. Nitya Kalyani |Vivek Katju |Mitali Mukherjee |G. N. Devy
The results of the Lok Sabha election reflect a paradigmatic shift as they reveal the caste churning that has happened on the Indian political landscape. Not only have the results unveiled new caste equations and alignments of the SC/ST/OBC/EBC/minorities, they are also significant in terms of arithmetic realignments and the emergence of new Dalit-Bahujan faces in the political spectrum.
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Jun 8, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Ilangovan Rajasekaran |Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed |K. Nitya Kalyani |Anand Mishra
Since the 2021 Assembly election in Tamil Nadu, the Bharatiya Janata Party has launched a perception battle against the State and its ideological exclusivity on two fronts–virtual and physical. The main element of this strategy is its tirade against the ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and its Dravidian ideology in the attempt to present both as antithetical to Hinduism.
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May 24, 2024 | 
researchgate.net | K. Nitya Kalyani
To read the full-text of this research, you can request a copy directly from the author. ResearchGate has not been able to resolve any citations for this publication. BookFull-text availableArticleFull-text availableJun 2020Int Rev Aesthet Sociol MusicChapterFull-text availableArticleAdorno, T. (1973). Introduction to Adorno. New Left Review, 81, 46. Swami Achutananda 'Harihar' sanchiyataBharti, K. (2011). Swami Achutananda 'Harihar' sanchiyata. Swaraj Prakashan.
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May 21, 2024 | 
journals.sagepub.com | K. Nitya Kalyani
Get full access to this articleView all access and purchase options for this article. ReferencesAdorno T. (1973). Introduction to Adorno. New Left Review, 81, 46. Attali J. (1985). Noise: The political economy of music (Vol. 16). Manchester University Press. Bennett A. (2005). Culture and everyday life. Sage Publication. Bennett A., & Rogers I. (2016). Popular music scenes and cultural memory: Pop music, culture and identity. Palgrave Macmillan. Bharti K. (2011). Swami Achutananda ‘Harihar’ sanchiyata.
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Apr 1, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | K. Nitya Kalyani
Bhakti to Babu Mangu Ram, where did anti-caste history go? Reduced to mere buzzwordsPolitical appropriation whitewashes the rich history and cultural complexities of anti-caste movements, manipulating them for vested agendas. The …
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Apr 1, 2024 | 
theprint.in | K. Nitya Kalyani
Also Read: Ambedkar in a savarna mundu? Why Babasaheb’s clothes matterAnti-caste movements pre-date colonialism, with roots in Buddhism and later in radical Bhakti traditions. When one reads Ravidas (1450-1520), one can find the earliest imagination of a casteless society, in his idea of Begumpura. In his vani (Sri Guru Granth Sahib, Part 1, Raag Gauri), Ravidas imagines a world that is devoid of hierarchy and where equality prevails irrespective of social status.
