Ranjana Dave

Artist. Writer. Arts worker. Editor. Body / Language (2024) out now. I dance. I write. I teach. I bake. (she/her)

[Himal Southasian @HimalSouthasian]

Archive | Dalit History Month

Institutionally sanitised to appear in festivals and be decorated with awards, the Dalit Tamasha woman is a totem for Marathi culture and identity, yet is a taboo because she represents forbidden desire.

@chaltipatang: https://t.co/TQBLNHw3gf

[Ranjana Dave @chaltipatang]

@AmazonHelp @amazonIN @amazonhelp the option literally doesn't exist. I have no way of complaining about an order that I have received.

[Ranjana Dave @chaltipatang]

@amazonIN please sort out your delivery issues. The delivery associates assigned to my area throw the parcel anywhere around the house and it takes days to track them down. When I met the delivery associate today he yelled at me + threatened to cancel my order. What's the issue?

[Ranjana Dave @chaltipatang]

@AmazonHelp The chatbot doesn't have an option to report my specific issue. I have received my order today but also had the delivery person threaten to cancel my order. How do I report that? I have rated the delivery already.

[Ranjana Dave @chaltipatang]

@AmazonHelp I've marked this as an issue multiple times and am losing faith to the point where I definitely don't see myself buying high value items on Amazon, haven't had a doorstep delivery in about three months now because it is always dumped somewhere and marked as delivered.

[Himal Southasian @HimalSouthasian]

To imagine a performance of citizenship through the body of the Indian dancer is to commit to messy affective trajectories.

@chaltipatang on dance and performance across boundaries of caste, gender and citizenship in India:
https://t.co/TQBLNHwB5N

[Ranjana Dave @chaltipatang]

On a dance award and how dancers in India's contemporary dance landscape work for @frontline_india

[Frontline @frontline_india]

#Dance | Increasingly, artists in the Indian ecosystem do not rely on being invited by venues to perform. Instead, they plan their own tours across major metros & a few smaller cities, sometimes travelling to multiple venues in each city. | @chaltipatang

https://t.co/uXj21eVSEH

[Ranjana Dave @chaltipatang]

@Kuvera_In your team did reach out and said something about escalation 12 days ago, but I am STILL waiting for an actual solution. Terrible response time and I am forced to begin looking at other platforms instead of Kuvera.

[Ranjana Dave @chaltipatang]

@Kuvera_In I've emailed [email protected] multiple times to resolve an issue I'm having with my account. I still haven't heard back. It's been four (working) days. This is utterly irresponsible for a financial platform.

[Frontline @frontline_india]

#Art | In the 12 years of its existence, the Prakriti Excellence in Contemporary Dance Awards has created a valuable ecology for #dance practice in India, where resources and opportunities remain scarce.

@chaltipatang writes.

https://t.co/uXj21eVkP9

[Ranjana Dave @chaltipatang]

If you are in the US, please help!

[Michael Creighton @mocreighton]

Hey friends in the US, I know of couple of great free libraries in New Delhi that are in need of books in Somali, Dari, Pashto and Arabic that are hard to get in India. If you order from our wishlist it will go to US address & I can pick them up. Dm me for details.

[Ranjana Dave @chaltipatang]

...Paik shows us how Tamasha artists were negotiating individual survival and collective identity. They were held doubly responsible for reclaiming Dalit identity and were seen as an antithesis to the robust body politic Ambedkar wanted fellow Dalits to cultivate.

[Ranjana Dave @chaltipatang]

Scholar Shailaja Paik uses terms in English, Hindi and Marathi to foreground culturally specific concepts, like 'ashlil', to describe the notoriety that sticks to Tamasha performers’ bodies. My review essay on her book and two others for @Himalistan .

[Himal Southasian @HimalSouthasian]

What moral geometries is the dancing body subject to?

@chaltipatang on dance and performance across boundaries of caste, gender and citizenship in India:
https://t.co/TQBLNHwB5N

[Ranjana Dave @chaltipatang]

Through a historical review of Ambedkar’s statements on Tamasha and Lavani, and also his articulation of manuski (humanity), dharmantar (religious conversion) and samaj (society) as strategies for caste liberation...

[Ranjana Dave @chaltipatang]

@AsheeshKSi As someone who has just done this (published a fair bit this year + bid adieu to academia), it's not so bad. I don't work 24/7, I am paid for my experience and not my degrees, and don't have to write proposals to keep justifying my existence, worth, breath.

[Ranjana Dave @chaltipatang]

We need to read and do dance in conversation with our daily realities. To imagine a performance of citizenship and identity through the body of the Indian dancer is to commit to messy affective trajectories. Review essay for @Himalistan

[Himal Southasian @HimalSouthasian]

If performance shapes how we read society, how do intersections between performance and society contribute to our understanding of identity, modernity and citizenship?

A review essay by @chaltipatang:
https://t.co/TQBLNHw3gf

[Ranjana Dave @chaltipatang]

Which bodies are 'ashlil', and which bodies evade that label? Shailaja Paik offers a social, intellectual and affective history of tamasha. The ashlil is sticky, attaching itself directly to the bodies of women who perform Tamasha, instead of accruing to what they do.

[Himal Southasian @HimalSouthasian]

No performance is ever created or staged in complete isolation. It is shaped by socio-cultural factors and stylistic influences, with far-reaching implications for how society is organised and read.

@chaltipatang writes:
https://t.co/TQBLNHw3gf

[Himal Southasian @HimalSouthasian]

📢📚 FRESH!

If performance shapes how we read society, how do intersections between performance and society contribute to our understanding of identity, modernity and citizenship?

A review essay by @chaltipatang:
https://t.co/TQBLNHwB5N