Topic: Casteism in India

Around 50 academics and activists released a statement condemning the police and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh-sponsored violence against Dalits in Vadayampady in Kerala.

This film therefore while touching upon intricate contours of caste and patriarchy; while it shows how any violence is justified while chanting ‘Bharat Mata ki Jay;’it shies away from looking at violence against Muslims and Islamophobia in the eye. 

Statement by Jignesh Mevani Against Kerala Police Brutality on Dalits who were protesting against Caste Wall.

‘ Caste in India is like the air we breathe and the water we drink, it is in the people we marry, and how we get remembered after death. And most importantly, it is in the visceral experience of shame.

Overall, the language of mainstream politics is so exclusive that it can hardly afford any independent pronouncement or protestation from the margins of establishments. Its very grammar is formulated for the purpose of invisiblising the victim, silencing their voices, and demanding their inactivity in advance. 

A Scholar who had published three research papers in reputed journals, willing to work and having aspirations to up-bring his family and community, was forced to commit suicide on 24th-Nov-2013, due to the strategic systemic negligence from the part of ACRHEM and University of Hyderabad Administration. The death of Madari Venkatesh is not a 'personal' problem, rather is the consequence of structural and institutional discrimination, and systematic exercise of exclusionary practices.