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…
Category: Social Policy
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…
Caste-away: Caste-based Residential Segregation and the Case of Bengaluru
BALA PANCHANATHAN Caste is an unwritten compendium of rigid social structures that includes a network of hierarchies, segmentation and segregation (Ghurye 1969 in Bharathi et al 2019). It is beyond a social evil in India— it is a state of mind and a way of life. Spatial segregation and discrimination have been basic aspects of…
Soliloquies of Collectives: Community-led mobilization in Urban Slums of Bengaluru
ANSHUL RAI SHARMA Hagiographies of local action have become commonplace in post-COVID mobilization studies (Laochankham, 2021). They focus on how the local actors can serve the needs of people, more importantly, the needs of the crisis moment in places where the welfare services of the State are ineffective or absent. These have failed in two ways: in…
Neglecting Van-Gujjars in the name of Tiger Reserve
SHUBHAMA SINGH In June 2020, a proposal was forwarded by District Magistrate to Government of Uttar Pradesh to declare the Tiger Reserve in the Shivalik forest range in Western Uttar Pradesh. If approved, this would be the fourth Tiger Reserve in the state. The proposed Tiger Reserve would be located in the foothills of the…