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Sowjanya Tamalapakula

RGV’s interview with Renuka, the young pregnant wife of the one of the accused, on TV5 appears to be extremely insensitive. File Photo

Sowjanya Tamalapakula | Rape, honour killings: Can RGV offer a true critique?

It must be remembered that it is important to protect the survivors of crime from further violence

19 Jul 2020 5:00 PM

A worker cover his face with a mask as he takes a nap outside a closed shop in a market in New Delhi. Thousands of workers in major Indian cities have lost their jobs due to the shutdown imposed to stop the spread of the coronavirus. (DC Photo; Pritam Bandyopadhyay)Photograph......Pritam Bandyopadhyay

The shutdown is a device to shut out the Dalits

All those who have been nudged to the margins by the Covid-19 lockdown are invariably Dalit

29 Apr 2020 12:40 AM

Similarly, construction of the dalit woman solely as a victim of rape and sexual violence at the hands of upper-caste men is nothing but a denial of her subjectivity and political agency.

The Manu in us: Kill him to exorcise caste

Manu enjoys great influence and respectability in Indian society even today.

12 Jan 2020 2:20 AM

Rape and murder of Muslim women during the 2002 Gujarat violence is construed/perceived as a symbolic emasculation of the Muslim community.

Exploring the idiom of ‘bodily integrity’

The idea of bodily integrity has not been extended to deconstruct the hegemony of heterosexual patriarchal caste endogamous marriage.

22 Dec 2019 12:49 AM

The rage of the middle classes against sexual violence is selective and is in most contexts directed against public violence and not domestic violence.

If society doesn’t respect all women, it’s hard to stop rape, sexual crimes

The demand to kill the accused publicly contradicts the democratic nature of the nation itself.

02 Dec 2019 12:51 AM

Pakistan roboteers hunt global soccer glory

Pakistani students and team members of robotics and intelligence systems engineering programme their robot football players at the engineering department of the National University of Science and Technology in Islamabad. (Photo: AFP)

28 Jun 2016 2:42 AM

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