filtering kaafi

here to witness the downfall and degradation of humanity.

[Cynthia Stephen @cynstepin]

It's now out there. Our systems are broken, because those who run them are.....

[Kunal Ambasta @KunalAmbasta]

Wrote for @thewire_in on colonial legacies in Indian criminal law. I argue that efforts aiming at legal decolonisation must entail a systemic shift of official attitudes towards criminal law, and that this cant be done by merely picking on obvious targets

https://t.co/b1kt5rlngB

[Sturgeon's Law @Sturgeons_Law]

Not Tamil, but if you like these, look up the 20th C Telugu magazine cover artist/illustrator Vaddadi Papaiah. Decades of great stuff that isn't even well known across India.

[Ronita C @ronita_c]

Couldn't stop myself from getting this - a collective biography of the women who shaped Khabar Lahariya, the women led newspaper in Uttar Pradesh that has evolved into a digital news offering and so much more (Simon & Schuster India publication)

[UChicago | Stone Center on Inequality & Mobility @UCStoneCenter]

India's Muslim and Scheduled Caste neighborhoods face systematically worse access to schools, clinics, and basic infrastructure. New research documents the extent of neighborhood segregation, currently invisible in the aggregate data used by policymakers. https://t.co/buROgc84bs

[Dr.B.Karthik Navayan @Navayan]

#BREAKINGNEWS | Madurai court imposed the death penalty on nine policemen convicted of the custodial torture and murder of traders P. Jeyaraj and his son J. Beniks in #Sathankulam in 2020.

🔗https://t.co/2vzyTsP8zV

#SathankulamCase #TamilNadu

[Dr.B.Karthik Navayan @Navayan]

Before we annihilate caste,
we must first annihilate the academic discourse on caste.

Because today’s caste is kept alive not just in villages,
but in marriage ads,
in housing societies,
but in air-conditioned seminar halls and peer-reviewed journals.

It is kept alive when a Savarna professor writes a 300-page book on Dalit pain without ever quoting a single Dalit voice.

It is kept alive when “merit” is measured by who can pronounce Bourdieu correctly while a Bahujan first-generation learner is mocked for her accent.

It is kept alive when the syllabus on caste has Manu, Dumont, and Dirks, but no Phule, no Periyar, no Ambedkar except as a footnote.
It is kept alive when the expert panel on “caste today” has five Brahmins and one token.

It is kept alive when reservation is called “reverse discrimination” in the same breath as citing “sociological evidence.”

The academic discourse on caste is the modern-day Smriti:
it interprets, it explains, it sympathises,
but it never lets the victims speak in first person.

It turns annihilation into an eternal PhD topic.
So yes,
burn the syllabus before you burn the Manusmriti.

Cancel the Savarna expert before you cancel the casteist uncle.

Defund the department before you defund the temple.

Because as long as the Brahminical gaze controls the knowledge about caste,
caste will never be annihilated;
it will only be gentrified.

First kill the discourse.
Then kill the thing itself.
जय भीम। జై భీమ్। ஜெய் பீம்।
Annihilation begins in the classroom.

[Sushmita Pati @PostitAcademic]

I am beyond thrilled that Properties of Rent is now shortlisted for the BISA IPEG Book Prize for this year! Thanks so much!
@NLSIUofficial @CUPAcademic @RanaAnwesha

[QAMRA Archival Project at NLSIU @Qamra_Archive]

We are delighted to invite you to a public lecture by Prof. Ruth Vanita being organised as part of The NLS Public Lecture Series.

Please join us at 5 PM on 3 August, 2023, in Room 104, OAB, NLSIU!

[Shalimar Books @ShalimarBooks]

All discipline
a deception to hide the wildness, all symmetry
an excuse for keeping count.

These poems chronicle wanting, art-making, and the practising of resistance and solidarity in the face of a hostile state.

Tomorrow Someone Will Arrest You
@meenakandasamy
@ShalimarBooks

[filtering kaafi @filteringkaafi]

@wearewatcher my friend says it’d be an honour to be on Ghost files as a ghost.

[filtering kaafi @filteringkaafi]

https://t.co/FsTFR9BI8y
Sharing the poem from Pablo Neruda

To the Foot From Its Child

[filtering kaafi @filteringkaafi]

Parents be letting kids to listen to ‘unholy’ with no problems but wouldn’t let a lil boy join Bharatanatyam class because he would turn out ‘girlish’

[Pratinav Anil @pratinavanil]

I write about JS Mill and his missus:

https://t.co/nhvJpn1tjr

[filtering kaafi @filteringkaafi]

when the rain is so hard you just have to pose with your umbrella because it is of no other use

[Tired@Law @Beard_Pakoda]

NLSQA and AoW pushing for the right discussions. Happy to see such a good amount of representation from different Law Schools.

[NLS Queer Alliance @NlsQueer]

The NLS Queer Alliance is a signatory to this statement and strongly condemns the BCI's resolution. The student groups from all these 36 law schools stand united against the resolution.
#LawStudentsAgainstBCI
#MarriageEquality

[Robin Schuldenfrei @schuldenfrei_r]

Objects in Exile: https://t.co/3O0EGTH3o0

[filtering kaafi @filteringkaafi]

So, what do people do here? Yes I was born yesterday.