Stories written by

S Anand

‘A celebration of Dalit women’s ideas’: Shailaja Paik, first Dalit winner of a MacArthur Fellowship

‘The sexual and gendered arrangements of the caste system to oppress Dalit Tamasha women remained unexamined,’ said Paik who has written a book on the subject.

S Anand
· Oct 12, 2024 · 08:30 am
How a new book on the role of Buddhism in shaping modern Indian history came to be

How did Buddhism appear, disappear, and reappear in India? Douglas Ober’s book ‘Dust on the Throne’, published by Navayana, answers the question.

S Anand
· Mar 01, 2023 · 08:30 am
Dhrupad has been evicted from Dilli

For decades, Dhrupad had one address in Delhi – 379, Asiad Village. Wasifuddin Dagar’s eviction from the house has severed a treasured link with the past.

S Anand
&
Pramathesh Ambasta
· May 24, 2022 · 11:30 am

Video

The Reel

Ten years after Khairlanji: ‘Only retaliatory violence can dislodge the deep-rooted venom of caste'

Had BR Ambedkar asked Dalits to hit back in Mahad in 1927, the Dalit movement would have taken a different course, says scholar Anand Teltumbde in an interview.

S Anand
· Sep 29, 2016 · 08:30 am