Dalit Lives Matter

Our worst fears are becoming real thick and fast.  Our country appears to  be fast becoming a banana republic.  We have several indicators of weakening of our judiciary, high handedness of the police, crimes against women and Dalit community, denial of crucial data, rising prices, job losses, sinking economy, our standoff with China etc., forcefully manifest that we are...

Dalit Lives are not Disposable

The horrific events in Hathras in recent days show that Uttar Pradesh in no longer Uttam Pradesh. While India is opening up everywhere from the strict lockdown, Hathras has become a Fortress that has imprisoned the 19 year old rape victims family in their own home. The imposition of section 144 has made it difficult for Media to discharge...

GREETINGS

There is an aesthetic ugliness.

But there is also an uglification that is constructed to please or delight a certain privileged group.

- Fr Victor Ferrao