If anything has lived, we will eat it," my father once boasted. We could make choices that, as Shahu Patole indicates in his book, Dalit Kitchens of Marathwada, were not available to people like him at the bottom of Hindu society. Patole’s book deals primarily with the lowest of Dalit subcastes in the Maharashtra region of Marathwada: the Mahar and …
Days after Shraddha Walkar’s brutal murder, another case of humiliation in an interfaith relationship surfaced in Maharashtra on 18th November 2022. After that, we had this love affair, Sana lured me into marriage and said, ‘I want to marry you, you embrace Islam, recite namaz, read the Quran’.” Dipak Sonawane further wrote in his complaint, “I told this to her …
