Dalit || Writer || Anti-Caste || Cinema || Politics || Author at American Kahani, Roundtable India
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1. The dialogues are preachy and fail to resemble natural conversations among villagers. The writing feels lazy, as the Brahmin writers try too hard to put progressive dialogues into the movie that don’t fit the characters or setting. The movie compensates for it by relying heavily on drama and manipulative music.
On August 4, 1923, SK Bole, a social reformer, proposed a resolution in the Bombay Legislative Council. The resolution stated: 
Family of Jabya ( Dalit) lives on the outskirts of a village. To make ends meet, the family chases away pigs and also kills them to prevent them from creating nuisance in the village—a task assigned to the Dalit family since upper-caste families consider it unhygienic & impure. 
He aggressively promoted his flawed philosophy relying on unfounded assumptions and fallacies. 
It is argued that the inclusion of these two words were not necessary as the constitution of India already encompassed their essence. 2/5 🧵 
Manual scavengers engage in their occupation due to the oppressive imposition of rigid caste-based roles within society, which deprives them of any viable alternative employment opportunities. Numerous case studies have revealed that those who attempted to break free from this… https://t.co/05GIU9fiGUtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
The film begins with an animated explanation of the significance of land in human civilization. Humans transformed forest land into agricultural land for sustenance. This land became their deity, a religious and caste ritual. It represented power, leading to battles both in myths… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 
At The time when the moneylenders were imposing an interest rate between 24-36%, this event took place.
1/16 "Gandhi's vision was for a system of decentralized governance, with the central government exercising only limited powers. He proposed that villages should be governed through their traditional leaders, such as sarpanches and panchas (village chiefs and councillors)."
1. Gulamgiri (Slavery) - Mahatma Jotiba Phule 
He (born in march 13, 1970) spent his childhood and youth in a remote village Rainguda in Odisha's Kalahandi district. His father was a schoolteacher and his mother was an educated housewife. It was a lower-middle-class family, which did not have to struggle for food, clothes,… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
The poem's opening line, 'Chewing trotters in the badlands,' alludes to the harsh living conditions and distinct culture of Dalits.
Around 1950, when first batch of Dalit youths graduated from Siddharth College, Ghanashyam Talwatkar and others set up a literary society called Siddharth Sahitya Sangh. Dalit writers and activists had planned to have the first Dalit writers' conference in December 1956, which… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
According to UNICEF, one in three malnourished children in the world is Indian. Malnutrition is also a social and economic problem too that can hinder national development.
