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Anil Khadse breaking barriers, inspiring change

MAHARASHTRA: Anil Khadse, the first person from the Mang community in Vidarbha region, a Scheduled Caste, to crack the civil services exams, now serves as the deputy director in the Income Tax Department in Nagpur. The Mang or Matang community traditionally engaged in occupations such as rope and broom-making, cattle castration, and leather work, has long faced social and economic …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

How to cook chicken liver from Marathwada’s Dalit kitchens

Live Mint

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 …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

‘Why do we know so little about Dalit food?’: A Wknd interview with author Shahu Patole

Hindustan Times

If we are what we eat, then shouldn’t eating sattvic make one sanatan like a Brahmin, asks Shahu Patole. Amid the rise of urban living and migration to cities, Patole says he represents the last generation that remembers the days when the community subsisted on “tamasic” food. Patole hopes the book will encourage people from other Dalit and non-Dalit communities …

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5 months, 1 week ago

‘Our future generations should know what we (Dalits) ate... and the treatment we received in society,’ says Shahu Patole

The Hindu

When the coriander plants flowered, a strong aroma would linger in the air that reminded everyone of meat curries. There are many explanations like this in Dalit Kitchens of Marathwada, the English version of Shahu Patole’s Anna He Apoorna Brahma, translated from the Marathi by Bhushan Korgaonkar. No one ever talks about our food culture, which is why I had …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

An escape, a shot in the dark, a legacy: Here is Olympian Lilia Vu

New York Times

Around 1980, near the small village of Cần Giuộc in southern Vietnam, a single glass of water was centered on a table. Her family escaped when she was 3, and she recalls growing up with a stigma that was assigned to the older generations and inherited by the younger — the persistent idea that being a boat refugee meant “being …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Fears of escalation after Myanmar air raids near India border

Al Jazeera

Five people were killed in the attacks, which targeted the headquarters of the Chin National Front, an ethnic armed group. Shona Loong, a lecturer at the University of Zurich who specialises in the political geography of armed conflict, told Al Jazeera that the military’s bombing of Camp Victoria illustrates an approach it has used for decades to try to quell …

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2 years ago

What Germany’s coal miners can teach America about medical debt

Salon

PÜTTLINGEN, Germany — Almost every day, Dr. Eckart Rolshoven sees the long shadow of coal mining in his clinic near the big brownstone church that dominates this small town in Germany's Saarland. "It's a huge problem here," said Jessica Ice, executive director of West Virginians for Affordable Health Care. "Access to medical care with minimal costs for patients has been …

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2 years ago

Hansika Motwani, Katrina Kaif and Deepika Padukone: Actors who chose the traditional red for their wedding day

Hindustan Times

Hansika Motwani tied the knot with her long-time boyfriend, Sohael Kathuriya, on December 4. The actor chose a heavily-embroidered gold and red lehenga set paired with a matching embellished zari dupatta, kaleere, bangles, a choker necklace, nath, mang tika and earrings. Hansika Motwani, Katrina Kaif, Deepika Padukone and other actors who chose the red hue for their wedding. Katrina Kaif …

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2 years, 6 months ago

A grain of truth

China Daily

Children learn to plant rice seedlings in a paddy field in Bijie, Guizhou province, on May 29. After xiao man, or "grain buds", it's time for mang zhong, or "grain in ear", a Chinese solar term for summer. The beginning of mang zhong means the grains are mature and waiting to be harvested, so like other solar terms, it also …

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4 years, 4 months ago

Can A Book Club Fight Racism?

Huff Post

This summer, as Black Lives Matter protesters dodged rubber bullets fired by police and Black and brown communities were hit hard by COVID-19, book clubs sprang into being, and into action. Though “white anti-racists have a very important role to play in promoting anti-racist change,” she told HuffPost, “If your antiracist reading group or your antiracist initiative is not centering …

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