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I've written on the Delhi HC judgment in #UnnaoCase @thenewsminute Opinion: Delhi HC’s technicality-based ruling in Unnao case stands against justice thenewsminute.com/news/opinion-d…

FUCKING LEGEND OF A RESPONSE.

What a Supreme Court Observation on Disability Rights Got Wrong I've written in @thewire_in m.thewire.in/article/law/wh… via @thewire_In

@justinshanes Lina Khan vindicated once again

mumbai police has made its first arrest based on the anti-trans ammendment act. we're so screwed

Bilkis Bano was pregnant and gang raped. Her 3 year old child was murdered by smashing the head. Perhaps that foeticide that came to his mind and caused tears of shame to flow.

The first glimpse of 'Ticket to Kerala : The Story of Malayalam Cinema' in a bookstore shelf happens to be at Modern Book Centre in Thiruvananthapuram, one of my favourite bookstores. People in Thiruvananthapuram or visiting the city, please pick it up from Modern. Also available on Amazon in India and overseas.

It was once said Cairo writes Beirut publishes and Baghdad reads The photos are from Iraq

Most of our newspapers have a weird autocorrect. It changes "delimitation" to "women".

Who wouldn’t?

the polymath Raza Kazim has passed away. Besides being a lawyer, politician, philosopher and a photographer, he invented 'Sagar Veena' - the first non-fretted stringed instrument for Indian classical music. His daughter Noor Zahra Kazim is the primary performer of it.

vedanta killed 16 workers in chhattisgarh. the same vedanta whose sterlite plant in thoothukudi killed 14 protesters in 2018. the same vedanta that has been shutting down accountability with legal challenges for a decade the brand survives every disaster but the workers don't

It's funny that the armed forces have to hire Agniveers and schools & colleges have to hire temps because we can't give pension, no money saar, but we can totally recruit 300 extra MPs and pay for bungalows, security, pension, health, etcetc.

This is it. This. Right here...

Idiots who cheer for Delimitation should just talk to Ladakh people. They cheered removal of 370. Look where they are now.

260 dead by official count. over 60,000 displaced. i'm not talkin about lebanon. not iran. not gaza. not sudan THIS IS IN INDIA. THIS IS IN MANIPUR

Now it is Kerala’s turn. Other South Indian states should also come forward in support of Tamil Nadu.

@RTSG_News Marx in the first page of his ‘The Eightieth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte’ wrote “ Men make their own history, but they do make it just as they please, … but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past…”. Marx-haters won’t understand.

You don't learn Communism from any book, you learn it when you’re told to work for 18 hours for 11000 rupees a month and still beaten for protesting for a fair demand.

Evaluating B R Ambedkar’s important role in Anti-Caste and Dalit Liberation Movement, Anuradha Ghandy writes: “Following the tradition of the earlier Non-Brahmin Movement, Ambedkar did not participate in the nationalist movement. Though Ambedkar was aware of the exploitation of the British, the Depressed Classes realized that they needed Swaraj to develop the movement; he felt that it could not take on two enemies (i.e., the upper castes and the British) at the same time. So they targeted their attack on the caste system. Throughout his political career, Ambedkar was a firm opponent of Gandhi and he exposed the hypocrisy of the Congress leadership on the issue of eradicating untouchability. Ambedkar played a very important role in mobilizing the lowest castes in Maharashtra to struggle against caste oppression and to demand equality. He gave the people, suppressed for centuries, a self-identity in which they developed a pride in being from the Mahar community, and he gave them the self-confidence that, given equal opportunities, they were no less than members of the higher castes. The almost total conversion of the entire Mahar community to Buddhism in 1956 served to encourage this sense of identity and pride. The public rejection of Hinduism, which sanctifies inequality and caste discrimination, and public conversion to a religion based on egalitarian principles, is another symbol of desire for equality. It includes also a rejection of the old feudal ideology of Brahminical ritualism. There has always been a controversy on the evaluation of Ambedkar among communists. Issues like his attitude to communists, his attitude to violence or his role in the trade union movement have been presented to judge Ambedkar. But what is significant in such an evaluation, from a Marxist point of view, is his objective role in the process of democratic transformation of society. The democratic transformation of India required a revolutionary struggle against the backwardness and semi-feudal agrarian relations in rural India. The caste system had been part of the pre-capitalist feudal economy. Caste ideology was part of the traditional feudal culture and ideology. Therefore, to smash the caste system and actively fight caste-based oppression were an integral part of the democratic transformation of our society. Ambedkar and the Dalit movement led by him were an important part of this democratic current against caste feudalism. By asserting the identity of the Dalits, by demanding equality, by attacking the feudal ideology of Hinduism, Ambedkar fought for democracy in social life. But Ambedkar did not connect the caste system with wider agrarian relations in a comprehensive manner. He did not conceptualize the role played by the British in perpetuating and defending this backward exploitative agrarian economy. Hence, his movement remained one part of the anti-feudal current. And this led Ambedkar to place hope in constitutional means for gaining political equality. Ambedkar was a leading liberal reformer of his time. He is a source of inspiration for the Dalits not only in Maharashtra, but in other states as well. For Dalits, who have acquired education but face caste discrimination, who demand equality but are denied it in various ways, subtle and crude, he is a symbol of their identity and desire to gain equality.”

It's been a while since I posted my work, so here are some pictures from a lovely wedding I shot in Chennai in February. If you're looking for a low-key, mainly documentary-style solo photographer to shoot your wedding, drop me a line. And do RT to spread the word!