We seem to have forgotten the basic fact that TN is Periyar's land not because it is a post-caste utopia, but because this was the land that he most intimately scrutinized, criticised and sought to change. Without this reflective gaze, we are just an average caste-Hindu society.

How to read Jotibā Phule’s Sārwajanik Satya Dharma Pustak? I offer an inter-textual reading to recover a particular strand of non-Brahmin way of thinking about dharma in Studies in Indian Politics journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23… Thanks to my dear colleagues at Dept of Political Science, University of Hyderabad Univ of Hyderabad for their inputs

Indeed. There is no brain to wash.

That Manipur barely finds 41 minutes for discussion in Lok Sabha at 2am when the whole nation sleeps reveals New Delhi's blurred-eyed approach to the State & the Northeast as a systemic design by default. Is it a symbolic consignment to the nation's dark memory, never to be seen?

Happy Jayanti and let's read Ambedkar! #AmbedkarJayanti

Let us read Babasaheb's prescient warnings about the limitations of parliamentary democracy in his address to the All India Trade Union Workers Study Camp! (1/2)

A thread of Pope Francis being truly progressive and truly Christlike. Rest in Paradise 🕊️🧵

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He's still got it.

DY Chandrachud violates a fundamental tenet of judicial ethics by speaking about a judgment he himself delivered, i.e. Ayodhya. The reason he does this is because he knows the judgment – which gave the site of the demolished Babri Masjid to the very vandals who tore it down in

அப்துல் கலாம பேச சொல்லலாமா?

Israel Agrees To Go Back To Killing Palestinians On Less Frequent Basis theonion.com/israel-agrees-…

தங்கள் மதவாத அரசியலை தமிழ்நாட்டில் செய்துவிட ஆர்.எஸ்.எஸ்-பாஜக தொடர்ந்து முயற்சித்து வருகின்றன. அதை தமிழ்நாடு அரசுடன் இணைந்து மதுரை மக்களும் முறியடிப்பார்கள். அனைத்து சாதியினரும் அர்ச்சகர் ஆவதை ஏற்க மறுக்கும் ஆகம விதிகள், கார்த்திகை திருநாள் முடிந்த பின்னும் தீபம் ஏற்ற

Wrote on the Cambridge Companion to Periyar, why it matters and what it could have been. For The Wire thewire.in/books/a-canon-…

And here is a review of The Cambridge Companion to #Periyar by Ganeshwar on The Wire "The very publication of the Cambridge Companion to Periyar is a striking canon-breaking moment." thewire.in/books/a-canon-…

Ganeshwar, PhD Scholar Dept of Political Science, University of Hyderabad, has published a review titled "A Canon-Breaking Moment: Why the 'Cambridge Companion to Periyar' Matters" in The Wire. Read here: thewire.in/a-canon-breaki… Univ of Hyderabad School of Social Sciences, UoH Communitas (Dept. of Political Science, UoH) #Periyar #BookReview #StudentPublication

A bonafide idiot who pretended to be an anti-caste radical comes out and betrays his casteist arrogance. Even if he stands alone, Thiruma will remain a strong anti-caste voice. Even with a thousand sycophants behind him, Aadhav Arjuna will always be an absolute nobody.

Today would have been David Graeber 's 65th birthday. Wherever you are, may you be surrounded by freedom and сare. When people say about the dead "he's always with us," for me that turned out to be true. David died so sudden, and we had so sincerely planned to live until 85

Repurposing horseshoe theory in big 2026 that too in service of AIADMK, which former Hindu reader's editor A. S. Panneerselvam rightly remarked functions as the Thevar party in the Thevar region, Gounder party in the gounder region and Vanniyar party in the vanniyar region. Sad.