Writing
Essays, speeches, and analysis from the Ambedkar King Study Circle and the people organising with it.
8 articles
August 10, 2020
Caste in the USAFederal law protects people from discrimination on race, colour, religion, sex and national origin, but not caste. A high school student sets out why the caste practised by Hindus in America needs naming and outlawing.
October 6, 2018
History and MovementsPeriyar E. V. Ramasamy built the Self-Respect Movement against brahmanical hegemony in South India. This piece asks what his rationalism demands of the Indian diaspora working in Silicon Valley today.
April 24, 2018
Ambedkarite ThoughtThe full text of a speech given at Stanford University for Babasaheb Dr. Ambedkar's 127th birth anniversary, on the Hindu Code Bill and the equality Ambedkar sought to legislate into Indian family law.
February 3, 2018
Ambedkarite ThoughtThe full text of a speech given at a Dr. King birthday commemoration, tracing what Dr. Ambedkar left behind and why his struggle and Dr. King's belong in the same frame.
January 6, 2018
History and MovementsDalits gathering for the bicentenary of the 1818 battle of Bhima Koregaon were attacked. Reading Dr. Ambedkar's The Untouchables and Pax Britannica alongside the violence shows how little the terms of the argument have moved.
December 26, 2017
Books and MediaA reading of Dan Brown's Origin, following the novel's argument about science, faith and where we come from, and what it leaves unexamined.
October 16, 2017
Caste in the USAA reply to everyone who says caste no longer operates: a newspaper that names a Dalit President while titling those who report to him, a terminated Dalit magistrate, a schoolboy beaten for scoring well.
October 2, 2017
Culture and SocietyPurattasi turns a month of the Tamil calendar into a diet challenge. Following who observes it, and how recently, exposes the caste work that vegetarianism performs in Tamil society.