Harshul हर्षुल 🌸

Part 1 of 2 @SOAS @SOASpolitics done🐣🥹🙆💙 This frame is an assertion of three Dalit generations of yearned aspirations of education-liberation-emancipation. I owe to Ambedkar💙 and my staunch Ambedkarite Parents who ensured my access to education. Jai Bhim💙 #soas #grad24

Ninety Nine years ago, on March 20, 1927, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar led the Mahad satyagraha – for drinking water from the Chavdar tank at Mahad. This was the “foundational struggle” of the dalit movement, a movement for water and for caste annihilation, which was met with violent repercussions by Caste Hindus. While the physical tank at Chavar tank was physically opened for Dalits, the ritual codes of purity have migrated into the schools, universities, asterisk in gazettes, and statistical aggregate in the national surveys. Atrocities for touching water pots in school, pumping water in the heat, accessing borewells, falling headlong in the well due to water shortage, poisoning the well with endosulfan. Caste remains the central grid of water infrastructure even today. After the violent attack by Caste Hindus for accessing Chavadar tank, Dalits retreated, came back several months later on December 25 for a renewed struggle, and since the collector had given an injunction against any further attempt, Ambedkar decided to honor this and instead burned the Manusmriti.

On the death anniversary of Marang Gomke Jaipal Singh Munda, I pay my respectful tributes to a visionary who dedicated his life to the identity, dignity, and empowerment of Jharkhand. In his honour, we are taking forward the expansion of the Marang Gomke Overseas Scholarship to support 50 students from marginalized communities in Jharkhand, enabling them to pursue higher education at leading global institutions in the UK. We are also advancing the launch of the Marang Gomke Jaipal Singh Munda Doctoral Scholarship Programme in collaboration with @StJohnsOx @UniofOxford - strengthening India–UK academic collaboration and enabling our youth to engage with world-class research and innovation ecosystems. Our commitment remains steadfast - to carry forward Marang Gomke’s legacy by empowering our youth and connecting Jharkhand’s aspirations with global excellence. Johar!

Caste survives because power keeps teaching inequality to sound like common sense. Read our co-authored piece for IndiaForum: theindiaforum.in/amp/caste/how-… w/ @Aishwarya_avrj #caste #UGC #dba #university

This year's LHPC theme is "Legacy and Lens: The Past, the Present, and the Future". Hear more from Georgia when she spoke to Bailrigg FM about the LHPC 2026 theme. You can still submit your abstracts for the opportunity to speak at LHPC 2026 at the link in our bio!!

#Horrific Rajkot AIIMS, MBBS final-year Dalit student Ratan Meghwal died by suicide after jumping in front of a train. In his suicide note, he accused Asmita Sharma and four others of physical assault and mental harassment. UGC regulations must be enforced strictly.

My column in today's @IndianExpress. Wrote about the “first in the bloodline” trend which took over our timelines & ❤️ “True progress will arrive when being the first for women no longer feels revolutionary. When choosing oneself is not an act of defiance, but an ordinary right”

🚨CALL FOR APPLICATIONS🚨 Applications for the Critical Theory Workshop’s 18th Annual Summer School in Paris are due by this Sunday, March 15th! If you are interested in applying, click the link below ASAP! criticaltheoryworkshop.com/summer-program…

Expert brings Shakespearian Hindi translations to big screen Dr Anandi Rao, Lecturer in South Asian Studies, provided her expertise in Hindi translations of Shakespeare for the new ‘Hamlet’ film adaptation, released last month. soas.ac.uk/about/news/exp…

Read with us! We're hosting a collective reading and discussion of Marcos S. Scauso’s 'Decolonial Pluriversality: Unveiling Genocide, Epistemicide, and Historicide in the Foundations of the United States'. 6 April 2026, 18:30 CET, via Zoom RSVP: southsouthmovement.org/decolonial-plu…

the academic joy of becoming a citation 🥹🐣🌻 Ps being cited/footnoted in Turkish language is new!!! 😭 so special Work in context 💙 doi.org/10.5281/zenodo…

ICYMI: Our colleague Sarah Njeri (@sndeall) joined a critical conversation on the challenges Global South scholars face in academic publishing. The lecture “Invisible” Struggles, Unheard Voices also featured Dr. Natalia Bueno (@UnivdeCoimbra) and Dr. Roberta Holanda Maschietto, hosted by NUPRI and CCP (University of São Paulo - @usponline). 📺 Watch the full discussion here: youtube.com/nupriusp

First in the bloodline to study & graduate 🎓, read/speak English, deliver academic sessions 📚, write & publish ✍️, and work/travel globally 🌍 Held up by the love, hope, and support of my loved ones and Ambedkarite parents 💙who prepared me for all of this. Pic circa 2024🥺🌻

The Race & Caste Reading Group will meet this Thursday February 12, from 4.30-5.30pm in KUY 415. The meeting will be devoted to a brief reading of the Dalit Panther Manifesto and planning the rest of the semester. mailchi.mp/hawaii/race-ca…

I always feel interview-ready - at least in my imaginary prep sessions. Yesterday, in the real one, I panicked and coined a new term: 'plurology'. All three interviewers went straight to their notepads like I’d just eureka’d my way through a human crisis. Humbled🫠

Will be speaking on understanding food studies in India today at 6 pm for Satyashodhak Collective, an independent collective inspired by anti caste praxis. Zoom link - us05web.zoom.us/j/89733299070?…

@prithviism @SurbhiKesar this is savarna detachment; escaping accountability - but be able to capitalise DBA pain and call it 'scholarship' as if not enabling it. Be able to able to write public-facing work but not support it publicly?? Silence is not a choice but a sign of complicity.

Payel Tadvi in Nair Medical College,Aniket Ambhore(IITB),Anil Ashna(IITD)&Muthukrishnan(JNU)are institutionally murdered because of their SC ST Caste identity.Brahman UC agraharams want higher education institutions to be temples & restrict entry of everyone except Brahman males.

IITs,IIMs,IISCs,NITs,IISERs,NLUs have historically been agraharams,Brahman Baniya Upper Caste Hindu Spaces. They have always been Statist,Exclusionary& Ambivalent on Social issues since inception.Institutions task isn't only imparting skills but Socially responsible citizens too.

Rohith Vemula, Muthukrishnan, Fathima Latheef, Aniket Ambhore, Ayush Ashna, Anil Kumar, Uttam Mardi, Darshan Solanki,Payel Tadvi, Pallavi & many many more had to prove with life that Campuses in India are graveyards for Marginalised Caste Students. Equality is a distant dream.