Ishita Pradeep 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈

she/they | student, researcher, writer | MA sociology student @HydUniv | ex @newslaundry | trying my best

[Ishita Pradeep 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 @ishitapradeeep]

like seeing a "smoking kills" warning in a film about the IOF killing children

[Akira Curaçao 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇪🇨🇸🇳 @MrNarci]

love when the “drinking is injurious to health” statutory warning mandated by the CBFC comes up during a scene in which the police is torturing an innocent person. guess what else is injurious to health, guys

[Ishita Pradeep 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 @ishitapradeeep]

people are dying of electrocution, open manholes, trees falling and complete lack of infrastructure and mayor is out here getting recorded scolding ppl like this

joke of a city istg

[Richa Pinto @richapintoi]

Amidst heavy rains Mumbai Mayor Ritu Tawde, today urged citizens against sitting along the seafront in Worli.

#Mumbairains

[Swarna Rajagopalan @swarraj]

I have questions about many things (and also opinions) but sometimes I type and delete them because I think, ayyo, then I may have to interact with people!

[Rika @leninwadi]

People are too busy being upset about the tiktokification of bollywood. What about the tiktokification of protests🫪

[The Sameer Project @sameerproject]

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[a @kaLalekaaLu]

mid day meal is essential right of kids in school & privatization of that service should be the core issue besides imposing vegetarianism. capitalism retrenches caste, dalits have highest rates of malnutrition & chronic diseases due to be same.

[Edgar Allan Poeha @bhanilaessence]

Also on the matter of the removal of eggs from Midday meals: Its not just eggs.
Bengal midday meal scheme also included fish and chicken on special occasions, festivals, etc. So its a significant shift from non vegetarian to vegetarian

[Priyanka Ishwari @properpahari]

Depriving kids of eggs after "severe" malnutrition, not just malnutrition, increased in almost half of the country.
Replugging my story based on NFHS findings.

[Sarayu Pani @sarayupani]

“veg /non veg segregation” is a caste purity problem. Non vegetarians (who are the overwhelming majority in Bengal) do not care.

By prioritising segregation over nutrition goals, you’re saying the state must value upholding caste norms above providing nutrition

[Nabiya Khan @nabiyakhan_25]

Dear Cockroach Janta Party, Umar Khalid Is Exactly an Education Issue.

https://t.co/NRYJjzg26o

[Sreekara Adwaith @Adwaith_WS]

These are not 'slums'. Do you think migrant workers can build slums with corrugated metal sheets? A short walk away from the Parliament?

Companies provide these houses to workers - without basic safety requirements. Why not name the companies responsible?

[Edgar Allan Poeha @bhanilaessence]

I used to be like this when I was a child until I went to Dilli and had to eat lau the way North Indians cook it.

Rewired the synapses in my brain to truly appreciate Bengali lau dishes for the examples of truly culinary genius that they are.

[Priya @phoenix_wing16]

.@CPR_India is organising a talk which will examine the big mega city project of Amravati. In case you’re interested in the questions of land pooling, and if it’s a good reform against land acquisition, will highly recommend you to attend this talk.

https://t.co/9OYSiYmKUy

[Kunal Purohit @kunalpurohit]

These photos truly capture Maharashtra's current development model.

Unprecedented heat levels forcing citizens to sleep on beaches. No State intervention. But in the backdrop, you can see a coastal road being constructed for 20,000 crores, after chopping off 45,000 mangroves.

[Priya @phoenix_wing16]

Why take stupid decisions in the first place?

[Ishita Pradeep 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 @ishitapradeeep]

Mai wapas aaunga, I believe, does a very good job of exploring how trauma impacts memory. Considering that Partition Museum and 1947 archive are credited in the film - this is based on some very exciting historical work

To think of it only as a director's misogyny is simplistic

[Ishita Pradeep 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 @ishitapradeeep]

The men of the family will only remember the violence and brutality the women faced, and how they made a bad decision and failed to protect them.

Sure the women in the present day parts could be made less annoying, and that is Ali's blind spot

[Ishita Pradeep 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 @ishitapradeeep]

The men of the family will only remember the violence and brutality the women faced, and how they made a bad decision and failed to protect them.

Sure the women in the present day parts could be made less annoying, and that is Ali's blind spot

[Ishita Pradeep 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 @ishitapradeeep]

All the misogyny takes on mai wapas aaunga are completely missing the point that ALL women in the film are seen as memory. Sharvari will not have a complex personality in keenu's ageing memory. He will only remember the cutesiness.

[Ishita Pradeep 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 @ishitapradeeep]

so good to see an "indians and pakistanis are both humans just on different sides of the border film" in these Dhurandar times

[TheAmbedkarianChronicle @TheAmbedkarian]

“Nor all the creative arts really much different. For all their talk of individualism and originality, writers and artists depend on the accepted ideas of the age for their success, so even when they seem to protest, they in reality give unwitting, silent approval to society under the oppressors' control”
– Daniel L. Pals

The above quote was posted on Facebook by Rohith Vemula on 15 October 2015. The quote is excerpted from Pals’s book Eight Theories of Religion. Pals in the section of this excerpt writes, for Marx, creative artists are not independent forces but part of society’s cultural superstructure, shaped by economic conditions and class struggle. Although art presents itself as original and personal, it reflects the dominant ideas of its time, which serve the interests of the ruling class. Modern ideals such as individuality, freedom, and originality align with capitalist needs for flexible, self-reliant workers. Even when artists appear to challenge society, their work usually depends on accepted values to gain recognition. As a result, artistic individualism often reinforces existing power structures rather than truly escaping them.

Many activists and students found some calling to get active in the movement. They started identifying with their Dalit identity more openly after Rohith’s murder. Artists were not kept out of this. There was and is a strong need to fight for justice for Rohith and many students murdered by institutional casteism. There were/are performances of Rohith’s last letter. Poems, plays, web series, books, documentaries, mention in memoirs and the list goes on. However these circulated mostly in the liberal market to evoke an empathy in Savarnas. One of the many challenges artists face is funding. There is a dire need for money to tell these stories and for survival. A new wave of artists have emerged in the last decade who speak politically correct language to bank on Dalit trauma and violence to create art and survive off it. These artists have been very generously funded by the guilty savarna patronage for the liberal audience. Unfortunately, such artists forget the community in whose names they are raising funds and making a living. Suddenly the artist shields himself with the morality of his job i.e his job is to only tell the stories. Thus art becomes art for art’s sake and nothing beyond that. When ASA approached a “Bahujan” filmmaker, the major portion of whose documentary has been concentrated on Rohith, to screen her documentary for the tenth anniversary of Shahadit Divas, the organisers were baffled when they were asked for compensation for it. These student organisers have over the past generously offered the data to the public freely for academic and artistic endeavour. And neither does the organisation monetarily benefit by such screening, when most of its funds come from the Dalit patrons. There are many Dalit artists and performers who organise ticketed shows elsewhere in the country in the name of Rohith, his life, letters and dreams as a purely artistic endeavour, always funded by the Upper Caste. This contrasts greatly with the struggles around many Dalit organisations mobilising for Rohith Act. What do we do with the narcissism of an artist, who is uprooted from social and political causes but has found ways to make social contact and security off the same?

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