Ayan Nanda

Bibliophile,Cinephile...

[Riaa @hathiaursathi]

Hindu rashtra is just an euphemism for brahminism. Our Constitution,even with its majoritarian tendencies have made certain dent in the caste system & rss is working overtime to drag us back to the time when dalits were forced to hang spitbowls.

[🪺🪻অপালা🕊🐦 (duskphoenix.bsky.social) @RadfemOwl]

Ambedkar on self-rule and Western notion of democracy and why democracy fails:

[Madbruiser @Madbruiser]

delhi you have impressed me

[✧˖ @colditioner]

One of the most transcendent pairings of image and music in cinema

[Catty @CatWomaniya]

Notice how men’s rights crusaders and SIFF bots are always conspicuously silent when lower caste men are subjected to caste violence, lynchings and murders at the hands of upper caste men?

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

"pretentious" is the word the unambitious wield at the ambitious.

[-abk- @_vonarchimboldi]

There is no “intellectual culture” anywhere in India. We’ve got a cluster of technical universities that produce the fall guys of the global managerial class but have no ability to produce any original science, technology, legal theory or write any policy.

[Laal Saalan @laalsaalan]

one of the most important pre-requisites for building great educational institutions is to create a culture that promotes curiosity and spirit of inquiry which is impossible to achieve in a society whose very foundation is built on caste.

[R @CrimsonScalpel]

I wonder why these kinsd of posts are quick to include the adjective "illiterate" when both BJP and Congress have highly literate ministers while its the 'illiterate' adivasis who are trying to save the forest and climate and taking the biggest blow.

[Vinay Kumar @bahudari]

Haunts me till date

[Based Ambedkarite @PratikPaul9434]

Those who are busy with Donald Trump let me remind you Adivasis in Madhya Pradesh are on a hunger strike for the past 11 days because the government has taken away their land & forest
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https://t.co/WGB6UEGY3W

[Gowri @aliceonaroll]

Raghu Rai's uncommon eye for common scenes

[Clifton D' Rozario @clifroz]

The normalisation of police torture is an affront to the rule of law. Whatever the crime, the cops do not have the right to torture anyone. The climate of violence this fosters in the police force is a danger to every single person - accused or not!

[वरुण 🇮🇳 @varungrover]

“Slavery does not merely mean a legalised form of subjection.
It means a state of society in which some men are forced to accept from others the purposes which control their conduct.”

- Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

[Rehna Raveendran @Rehna_AntiCaste]

Uppered castes and intermediary castes (especially dominant OBCc) still enjoy a major land holding in every states. Land reform is a way to economic justice for Dalits. Parties that chant social justice, like RJD and SP in north, must set a role model by introducing Land reforms whenever they come to power.

[Swathi Soren @Soren_Media]

How dead are we on the inside for not being moved by this?

The women of Madhya Pradesh are ready to die for jal, jangal and zameen while the elites of this country dance like monkeys to the tune of the people erasing entire geneaology of indigenous peoples

[Khalid Anis Ansari @KhalidAAnsari4]

Happy birthday, Babasaheb!

"[N]o one can hope to make any effective mark upon his time, and bring the aid that is worth bringing to great principles and struggling causes, if he is not strong in his love and his hatred. I hate injustice, tyranny, pompousness and humbug, and my hatred embraces all those who are guilty of them. I want to tell my critics that I regard my feelings of hatred as a real force. They are only the reflex of the love I bear for the causes I believe in, and I am in no wise ashamed of it."

-Dr. B. R. Ambedkar

Pic @ Columbia University (2024)

[Sarayu Pani @sarayupani]

I love how in tune with local sentiments different Iranian embassies are. This tone is perfect for Japan.

[New Left EViews @NewLeftEViews]

One of the most vile and absurd things that has ever occurred in human history. You would have thought that the cost (literally millions of corpses) and the outcome (a resounding US defeat) would have reduction ad absurdum’ed wars form the sky but no.