Stranded in the Present

Sunday, September 14, 2025

Debating Charlie: Absolutism, Rhetoric, and the Problem of Asymmetry

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I had never heard of Charlie Kirk until his assassination. My curiosity was piqued when I saw that many people credited him with encouraging...
Saturday, January 14, 2023

Rationale for Caste Reservations - notes

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  Therefore, the tendency to point out a well-to-do Dalit (or any other marginalised position), while pointing out an economically unfortuna...
Monday, May 31, 2021

Original Father of Dravidian Speakers - VIII

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 Original Dravidian :   mother: aayi  Now found mostly among central Indian Dravidian tribes and Marathis and Konkanis. Among Marathis and K...
Sunday, May 23, 2021

Ab ke hum bichray he... by Ahmad Faraz / Mehdi Hassan

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  After we say good-bye this time, we may only meet in dreams... Quite like dried up flowers sometimes turn up in books...   Go,...
Sunday, March 21, 2021

Hum Dekhenge... By Faiz Ahmed Faiz (A translation)

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  We shall see, I’m certain that we will see…. We shall see, I’m certain that we will see….   What promise tomorrow brings, we will se...
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Sunday, February 14, 2021

Betrayal of Malayali Muslims

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 My first encounter with communalism was after the demolition of the Babri Mosque. The stories I was hearing was how my relatives or Malayal...
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Thursday, October 01, 2020

Marx on Religion and Caste

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Past few months have demonstrated that the people can have delusional happiness by not only consuming narcotics but also consuming news abou...
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Friday, September 18, 2020

OBC Illusion of Caste Liberation

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 One of my relatives is against reservations and the term 'OBC' in general. According to him, we should be allowed to get on with ou...
Wednesday, May 20, 2020

OBCs and Affirmative Action - v

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I always felt the lack of a collective identity of OBCs was the biggest reason why they, as a group, were regularly fooled by Hindutva. Pla...
Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Creating Diversionary Gods

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In one place, Hindutva is trying to create a god out of Ambedkar by continuously shouting that the Congress committed blasphemy against him...
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