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Baba Saheb's contention goes "The wall built around caste is impregnable...the breaking up of caste among the hindus is well-nigh impossible.At any rate,it would take ages before a breach is made."(Ambedkar 38).Conversely,Nehruvian Secular Nationalist Imagination asserts that Caste existed many moons ago and flaunting this old hat in Public Discourse is akin to resurrecting archaic retrogressive principles and the culmination-The End of the Civilization as we know it!A contravention of this caste hegemony is marked by Modernity. Before lauding Modernity as the aforementioned breach,a perusal of certain aspects is appreciable... Did the Dynamite of Modernity demolish caste system? 'or' Did the carpet of Modernity just push caste discussions underneath?Though Article-21 of Indian Constitution abolished Untouchability and a certain law in 1948 banned discrimination and segregation on the basis of Caste,ever and anon we find instances which prove the contr

   " Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defences of peace must be constructed".      This is what the Preamble to the Constitution of UNESCO declares.        Ever since I read the novel ' The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas', this is what I could recall. And now, when writing a mini-review and my experience of reading this book, I have had to add those wordings.   The boy in the striped Pyjamas- the title of this book is enough for me to remember it for a lifetime. It would be a paradox to say it all concurrently, but this is the most 'heart wrenching' and the 'magnificent' book I have read till now. Even though this book by John Boyne falls into the genre of Children's Literature, it is a must-read for all ages at least once.      This simple heartbreaking story is told from the eyes of a 10-year-old boy, Bruno, who is the protagonist. The story begins when Bruno sees Maria, their maid packing his belon

         This paper presents a glimpse of the poetry Man You Should Explode by Namdeo Dhasal                                                                                                          About the Author                                                                                                                                                Namdeo Laxman Dhasal was one of the most prominent Indian Poets, writers and Activists. He was born on February 15, 1949 in the  Mahar community, which is considered to be untouchable. He spent his childhood in Golpitha , a Red light district in Mumbai, where his father was a butcher. On his early life, Dhasal wrote: “I was born / on footpath/ when the sun was leaked/ and being dimmed/ into the bosom of night”. He  lived with the people of ‘ underworld’ like pimps, prostitutes, criminals, gangsters, traders and peddlers. In 1972 he founded the ‘ Dalit Panther's Movement’, a militant organisation which was  inspired by

                TARA – ACT TWO                                         by Mahesh Dattani                                                 -Aysha Sherin In the play, ‘Tara’, Mahesh Dattani presents the complicated dynamics of a typical Indian play. It is the third dramatic work of Dattani. The play revolves around the life of conjoined twins and a crucial surgery that separated the two, leaving them crippled for life. It exposes the typical Indian mindset which prefers a boy child over a female child. It also portrays the failure and triumph of a family trying to cope with the trauma of disability. Act one introduced us to the conjoined twins, Tara and Chandan and their parents, Bharati and Patel. Act two brings out the characters’ inner conflict, repressions and past secrets.                              Act two begins with Tara returning home after kidney transplantation. She finds out that her mother isn’t home and is currently admitted at the hospital due to her mental c

ANIME: SURPASSING THE BOUNDARIES                                   -Sreenanda Naduvalath Why is anime so widely loved?       I’ve been asked this question many times. I’ve asked this question to myself many times. How can some 2D drawings impact our lives so much?     The answer is simple: Because it’s completely different from everything else. Anime was something I just started on a whim, but now it has become a part of my everyday life. In Japan, ‘Anime’ is a term that refers to all kinds of animation. But outside Japan, it has become a catch-all term for animation from Japan. ‘Anime’ is the animated version of mangas, graphic novels drawn in black and white. For decades, anime was not noticed by the world. It was a product solely produced by and for Japan. But over the last few years, anime has become a global phenomenon, surpassing the boundaries of nations and literature, and capturing the hearts of many viewers. Whether it is a heartwarming and simple anime like

            TARA BY  MAHESH DATTANI                                                 -Aysha Sherin Mahesh Dattani is an Indian director, actor, playwright and writer. Dattani was born in 1958 in Bangalore and was educated at Baldwin’s  Boys High School and then went on to graduate from St.Joseph College , Bangalore.  He worked as a copywriter for an advertising firm before starting his career as an actor and a playwright. His first play ‘Where There’s a Will’ was published in 1986.  Since then he has written numerous plays such as Final Solutions, Dance Like a Man, Thirty Days In September, On a Muggy Night in Mumbai, etc. He is the first playwright in English to be awarded the Sahitya Akademi award. His plays address social issues especially prejudices and problems that the society is usually conditioned to turn away from. His plays deals with themes like gender discrimination , gender identity , communal tensions, child abuse ,etc. The play ’Thirty Days in September’

       "EDUCATE,AGITATE AND ORGANIZE!" Hola! It's me again...Today I'm here to resume our discussion on Baba Saheb's political struggle and personal achievements.Having acquired an awe-inspiring academic record to his credit,Dr.Ambedkar returned to India to emancipate his brethren from the clutches of the 'monster' named Caste which had been tormenting them for centuries.This Visionary was always alone...the solitude every exemplar encounters in this mediocre world.In all his efforts,Ambedkar was opposed by his contemporaries who should have been working with him shoulder to shoulder in those endeavours.The sad part of it was that the educated,progressive and the Anglicized intellectuals denied a helping hand to this Atlas who was carrying the burden of an entire community on his back.It was a time when India was in the midst of political turmoil where everyone born an Indian struggled to thwart the Colonial Forces and liberate Mother India.At