Shruti Jha ‘Public Health and Sanitation’ is an item under the State List. However, since the act of manual scavenging is dehumanizing, arising out of caste norms, in order to protect Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, and prevent hazardous employment, the Parliament has jurisdiction to legislate this act through Entry 23 (employment and unemployment) and…
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ARTICLE 15: Incomplete Journey from Constitution to Constituency
Riah Rath Article 15 is a 2019 Hindi film, directed by Anubhav Sinha. It is a movie set in the fictional village of Lalgaon in Uttar Pradesh, based on the Badaun rapes in UP. The film features Ayushmann Khurrana as an upper-caste IPS officer who has recently been posted to Lalgaon. It intricately knits together…
Ascension: Notes from a Public Lecture
By Anshul Rai Sharma A new voice reverberated through the National Law School’s Krishnappa Memorial Hall on the 9th of December. The university’s Friday evening was affected by the visit of a scholar who is regarded as one of the foremost voices in Ambedkarite studies. Dr Suraj Yengde, in his blue suit, Afro and a…
Politicisation of Education in India
Kanhaiya As Marx had argued, the base and superstructure are two interlinked concepts, with the superstructure growing out of the base. Base, here refers to the productive forces, or the materials and resources, that generate the goods society needs. French theorist Louis Althusser in Ideology and the State (1970), expands this idea and explores the…
Decolonization or Where do we go from Here?
Atreyee Majumder Click here to read Part 1 A strong call for decolonization of social sciences like sociology and cultural anthropology have come from Eve Tuck and K Wayne Yang who write from the point of view of sovereignty of Native American communities in the context of North American settler colonialism and anthropology’s collusion in…