Archive - Featuring Dalits

Dispatches from the NYC Mayoral Trail: Kensington Brooklyn and DRUM Beats

Third part of the series on reports from New York's South Asian neighborhoods

Jun 20 •

May 2025

The Summer of George Floyd's Murder and The Season of Anti-Caste Politics in the United States

An in-depth essay of where we stand five years since the 'moment of racial reckoning'

May 30 •

Dispatches from NYC Mayoral Election Trail: Turbans, Kirpans and Vaisakhi Celebrations at the NYPD Police Academy

Second part of the series on reports from New York's South Asian neighborhoods

May 24 •

Dispatches from NYC Mayoral Election Trail: Woodside, the Ravidassia Sikh Temple and Jackson Heights

An account of my reporting on the NYC Democratic Primaries

May 17 •

Zohran Mamdani's South Asianness doesn't scream from the rooftops

But it was playing on the loudspeakers at his first major campaign rally in Brooklyn

May 12 •

Notes on Shame, Bisexuality and Dalit Queerness

An excerpt from the first all-Dalit Women panel on Caste, Gender and Sexuality at Columbia SIPA, April 4, 2024

May 10 •

October 2024

The heartless cruelty that comes with being a Dalit woman

Prof. Shailaja Paik became the first Dalit scholar to receive the prestigious McArthur Fellowship. And also the target of vitriol from dominant caste…

Oct 17, 2024 •

September 2024

In Honor of the latest Hollywood Reporter India Cover Story

A year since 'Made in Heaven', how caste has continued shaping the Indian film and television space

Sep 25, 2024 •

March 2022

This is Featuring Dalits, a newsletter about Everything that's shaping Dalit Narratives This Month.

Mar 3, 2022 •

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