Academic Justice Through Citation Audit
That academia which preaches justice is itself an unjust environment has been pointed out by some of the academia themselves (Kumar 2016, Guru 2002). The major complaint is that the…
Sthabir Khora
Is the collegium system of appointment a disappointment?
Recently president Ram Nath Kovind opined that the ‘judges-appointing- judges system’ needs reform. Currently the collegium system is justified on explicit as well as implicit grounds. We can analyse these…
Intersectionality – becoming a trojan horse!
Diminishing return as a concept- Unmixed blessing is a rarity. It is difficult to find in social science a concept that takes care of everything. The notion of intersectionality is…
The dalit teacher – facing a 360-degree discrimination
Who is a teacher? In a loose sense a teacher would be anybody including Mahatma Gandhi who was not a teacher in any school or college and Ambedkar who was…
The IITs, Scheduled Category reservation and the strategic excuse of excellence
A Ministry of Education (MoE) panel has recommended that the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) should be exempted from caste-based reservations in faculty appointments[1]. Out of the many categories of…
Dalit patriarchy- is the concept sustainable?
Feminism arose as a counterpose to patriarchy. Dalit feminism can presuppose both Dalit patriarchy and 'Brahmin' feminism. Before we venture into defining Dalit patriarchy we must be clear about what…
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