#Caste

Robert Lyman

robert_lyman

Great article in @spectator by Francis Pike countering the malign untruth that Japan was about to surrender in August 1945 before the A-bombs were dropped. I made the same point

Srini Swaminathan

srini091

Thread: Though I haven’t watched #IndianMatchMaking yet, the flood of tweets/insta posts brought back (not nice) memories from my late 20s when parents started to “look for an alliance”. Over

ਜੋਧਸਿੰਘ (JungNihang)

YungBhujang

The propensity of many Sikhs (I’ve noticed prominently in the diaspora) to highlight genetics and race in their understanding of Sikh martial heritage underlines a really poor understanding of social

Surya Kanegaonkar

suryakane

After back-to-back single party mandates, a record 67%+ turnout in ‘19 and a pro-incumbency vote, @TIME uses a ‘native’ hireling to lend legitimacy to this outlandish story meant for Western

SonaliRanade

sonaliranade

Why are some Hindu RW handles praising Gandhi? Read following 3 slides. They are offered mainly 2 my liberal friends, who do not yet realise, how Gandhi will be deified

TheLifeofScience.com

labhopping

A thread on Savitribai Phule, a pioneering icon of anti-caste feminism, education and liberation, to commemorate her birth on this day, in 1831. Follow this thread as we remember her

momo

tmblrusrgmz

I like vriska perfectly well but it's an important, compelling and good element of her character that she's from the aristocracy. Her character is useful to comment on people that

vasabjit banerjee

vasabjit_b

My introduction to humanities and social science from my father, an orthopedic surgeon, sheds light on why universities ought to discard their myopic STEM obsession. A short thread... My father

Dr. Nyri A. Bakkalian

riversidewings

SALUTATIONS you fantastic denizens of the internet! The first #FridayNightHistory of 2021 is here! This week, a new mystery: the true name of "John Williams," Japanese Veteran of the American

Elizabeth C. McLaughlin, Esq.

ECMcLaughlin

Honest question for parents teaching their kids anti-racism:I've been thinking a lot about Isabel Wilkerson's book Caste and the fact that race is a construct, e.g. there was no whiteness

Sai Akash | సాయి ఆకాష్

Akash_NSA

Just finished reading this book "Pakistan or Partition of India" by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar. Very interesting comments on various aspects of pre independent India. I have listed some from

Nilofer Merchant

nilofer

If you cannot name and frame the conflict well, you never have a chance at addressing it. Without naming it, there is never progress. It was Mary Parker Follett, the

#QuranaVirus

QuranaVirus

The Controversy over Kapil Gujjar's dismissal from BJPHim firing bullets in Shaheen baug protests1. The Gujjar community and their relation with AAP/BJP and Caste based politics in Delhi2. Let's understand

Ananya Anand

byeananya

The things that Gandhi got away with never fails to astonish me: a thread 1. Profiting off of the image of the poor: this man invented cultural appropriation. Born into

Kushagra Aniket

KushagraAniket

During my undergrad at Cornell, I learnt the basics of Nyāya from a proponent of "The Death of Sanskrit" theory.According to him, the Bhagavad Gita was a manual of casteist

valerie.julliand

valeriejulliand

#WorldDayAgainstTraffickingInPersons Human trafficking is a long-standing problem globally. In #Nepal lack of employment opportunities, low levels of education & poverty are factors human traffickers use to entice their victims

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