Hello reader,
Welcome to the first edition of The Satyashodhak’s monthly newsletter. We plan to send this newsletter on the first day of every month so that in case you were not able to read articles published on our website due to your busy schedule, you could easily catch up. We will also recommend a few interesting articles published by other platforms in every edition of the newsletter. So let’s get started.
You don't’ wanna miss
We interviewed author, poet and translator Meena Kandasamy on her newly released translation—a novel by noted Tamil writer Salma—called Women, Dreaming. The interview was centred on the topic of translation, and Kandasamy told us about her process, the works she has translated in her career spanning almost two decades and what it has taught her.
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Poo Ko Saravanan wrote about his mother on the anniversary of his mother officially joining school as a teacher. It is a heart-felt story, a tribute to a mother from her son. One Twitter user described it as a story of grit, determination, mercy, joy, empathy and justice.
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Do also read
Open letter to BBC World Service for giving platform to Markandey Katju
‘Prashant’s crime is that he asks questions to the ruling government’—Jagisha Arora
BAPSA releases statement in solidary with students summoned by Telangana police
In case you missed
The following articles were not published in the month of October but we are listing them here because we do not want you to miss them.
Jotirao Phule founded Satyashodhak Samaj on September 24, 1873 as an organisation where Bahujan leaders, intellectuals and activists could come together and put up a unified challenge to Brahminism. On the ocassion of the anniversary of the Samaj, Sonali Kale wrote a succinct introduction to this revolutionary organisation.
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The feminist movement has made tremendous strides in the last few decades. While this has led to significant gains for women in general, the voices of upper caste women have remained dominant in the movement. Rashmir Nair shares five recommendations for Brahmin and upper-caste feminists to bridge the growing divide with feminists from marginalised groups and strengthen the feminist movement.
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The right wing groups are continuously trying to rewrite the history of India, which has led to myths such as the claim that varna system was not birth-based. The growing number of translations and scholarship on ancient texts acts as a major counter to this myth-making. Our editor Tejas Harad wades through Patrick Olivelle’s translation of four extant Dharmasutras to conclusively prove that varna system was birth-based and that Shudras were supposed to be treated as sub-human beings according to these texts.
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What we read in October
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