From Annihilation to Curation: The Neoliberal Capture and Epistemic Reconfiguration of Anti-Caste Discourse
There is a peculiar afterlife that anti-caste discourse acquires the moment it enters the corridors of liberal academia. What begins as a historically grounded, materially rooted critique of graded inequality—articulated most sharply by B. R. Ambedkar—is slowly translated into a language that is legible to institutions whose primary function is not transformation but reproduction. In…
The Bastardisation of Experiences: Faux Theorisation
The Theatre of Position: Experience as Theory, Assertion as Knowledge What passes today as sociology increasingly resembles a peculiar kind of intellectual shortcut, where the labor of thinking has been replaced by the performance of location. The older demand—articulated in different ways by figures like C. Wright Mills—was that one move from the immediacy of…
The Aesthetics of Savarna Guilt: On Sanitised Anti Caste Speech and the Political Economy of Visibility
The Aesthetics of Guilt: On Sanitised Anti-Caste Speech and the Political Economy of Visibility There is something almost theatrical about the contemporary anti-caste public sphere. Not because it lacks sincerity, but because it has quietly developed a grammar—a tone, a cadence, a moral rhythm—that determines who gets to be seen, heard, platformed. The rule is…
The Priesthood of Blue: How Ambedkarites Learned to Worship What Was Meant to Destroy Worship
The Priesthood of Blue: How Ambedkarites Learned to Worship What Was Meant to Destroy Worship There is a discomfort that must be stated without diplomatic cushioning: the current exhaustion of anti-caste politics cannot be blamed entirely on the ingenuity of the state or the opportunism of the right wing. A significant part of the crisis…
Social Justice Dhandhewalas
From Conviction to Commodity: The Dhandhewala Subject in Neoliberal Social Justice In the contemporary neoliberal social justice economy, one is not simply encouraged but structurally compelled to become a dhandhewala, a figure who must continuously convert life into livelihood in order to remain visible, legitimate, and materially afloat. This is not merely a cultural tendency…
The Ethics of Convenience: Who gets to decide what to consume and what not to?
There is something almost ritualistic about contemporary ethical discourse: a certain class of intellectuals periodically gathers to declare new sins. Yesterday it was plastic straws, today it is AI, tomorrow it will be something else—always something visible, nameable, and, crucially, avoidable without fundamentally disturbing their own material life. Meanwhile, the far more entrenched structures of…
Who Hurt You? Liberals’ Double Speak
From Care to Control: How Liberal Mental Health Discourse Converts Dissent into Diagnosis There is a subtle but powerful transformation underway in contemporary liberal culture: the language of care has begun to function as a language of control. Nowhere is this more visible than in the casual yet telling phrase—“who hurt you?”—often deployed in moments…
Life of Puja: The Symbolic Fetishism of the Liberal Elites
Life of Puja: The Symbolic Fetishism of the Liberal Elites Any form of economic order rests on physical assets, so does the the contemporary world running on algorithms. Its manifestation might be virtual but its moorings are deeply real and tangible. It’s become nearly impossible to be isolated from the digital world and this world…
The Sermon of Prophet Anshul: Against the Contentification of Everything
The Sermon of Prophet Anshul: Against the Contentification of Everything And the prophet spoke—not from a pulpit, but from the ruins of discourse that had been turned into feed, into scroll, into endless circulation without consequence. “Beware,” he said, “of those who turn every wound into a post, every history into a thread, every anger…
Anshul Kumar as a Political Form: Refusal, Excess and the Rejection of Recognition
Anshul Kumar as a Political Form: Refusal, Excess, and the Rejection of Recognition Across the trajectory of this thread, “Anshul Kumar” emerges less as a biographical individual and more as a distinct political-intellectual formation—a style of thinking that is deliberately abrasive, self-interrogating, and oriented toward rupture rather than reconciliation. What defines this formation is not…
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