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Category: Issues

Issues

On Goa Files

Posted on March 22, 2022 by kaustubh / 0 Comment

There’s new research on conversions to Christianity in early modern Goa and it focuses on the eager uptake of Christianity among upper-caste natives. I am not s...

Issues/Theatre

The Howlround Marathon note

Posted on July 20, 2021 by kaustubh / 0 Comment

Hello. My name is Kaustubh Naik. I am a playwright and doctoral student from India, currently based in Philadelphia, USA. I would like to thank the Segal Centre...

Issues/Life

Aaj Bazaar Mein

Posted on July 6, 2021 by kaustubh / 0 Comment

Rakht-e-dil baandh lo, Dil figaaron chalo Phir hum hi qatl ho aaye yaaro, chalo Aaj Bazaar mein, pa bajolaan chalo – Faiz Ahmed Faiz A few days ago, Manan...

Issues/Life

Periyar and the Politics of Resentment

Posted on September 19, 2020 by kaustubh / 0 Comment

What does it mean to grow up watching systemic oppression unfold onto people around you and not having a vocabulary to denounce/counter/ridicule it? This is wha...

Issues

On the New Education Policy 2020

Posted on September 3, 2020 by kaustubh / 0 Comment

Last month, I spoke at a webinar organised by Pinnacle, a discussion club put together by the current and ex students of Dept of Political Science at the Goa Un...

Issues/Music/The Goan Column

The Myth of ‘Unity in Diversity’

Posted on June 21, 2016 by kaustubh / 0 Comment

This campaign emphasizes unity among all Indians by employing a rhetorical strategy that erodes the contradictions in imagining India as a singular nation. The ...

Issues/The Goan Column

Dayanand Bandodkar, Ambedkar and Nehru

Posted on October 29, 2015 by kaustubh / 0 Comment

Bandodkar’s politics show the potential of Dr. Ambedkar’s vision, but also the limits of the Nehruvian model of governance. In his essay titled ‘A Warning to Un...

Issues/The Goan Column

FORCE and Bahujan aspirations

Posted on August 16, 2015 by kaustubh / 0 Comment

FORCE is a collective of parents of schoolchildren in Goa who want the state government to formalise the grants to English medium primary schools through an act...

Issues/Performance Studies/Theatre

Theatre, Spectacle and Politics of “Indian” imagination

Posted on August 16, 2015 by kaustubh / 0 Comment

Attempts to rewrite, and often overwrite, historical narratives have to be always critically examined. This critical examination is especially important in time...

Diary/Issues/Life

Privilege, Equality and Caste

Posted on November 16, 2014 by kaustubh / 2 Comments

You cannot help but to upset people when you write about Caste. The reactions to my post on Rajdeep are really interesting and just a reminder that we need to c...

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