Nikita Sonavane on caste origins of modern policing | What’s your ism?

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[@123xyzabccba]

20:15 ; “we were books with same cover but different content” - well said

[@sasentaiko]

Thank you so much for this interview. I learned so much. For example, hadn’t heard of being denotified before, and I guess I’m just taken aback at how many ways people in power will find to say that another person doesn’t deserve basic dignity. The situation in America isn’t that far ahead on the path to liberation. Nearly everything thing you discussed is regularly happening in America too, unfortunately… even in the most progressive places. Perhaps it seems rhetorically further ahead on justice and policing, but “defund the police” was so quickly vilified that police budgets actually grew, even in cities that passed laws and ballot measures to redistribute a tiny sliver of their funds. It’s an uphill battle for us all.

[@MadhuriSharma612]

Thank you, TNM for your excellent journalism and Nikita, for your inspiring efforts. Hoping that Newslaundry and TNM can make a more detailed series about this.

[@123xyzabccba]

75+ years of distorted constitutional reservations seems to have sent shiver down the spine of the beneficiaries of 3000+ years varnashram reservations ordained under manusmriti…..

[@booksquotes948]

Shiver ?? U r begging for private sector reservation

[@123xyzabccba]

@@booksquotes948 : private sector begs for sood and loans from banks which has public money and ur pvt sector is the most communal corrupt and parasitic sector which cannot compete with foreign business …without the help of cunning dronacharyas ull are zero

[@123xyzabccba]

@@booksquotes948 pvt sector is a reserved sector for varnashram viruses

[@booksquotes948]

@@123xyzabccba than Ambedkarite viruses r banned there

[@escapistreader3860]

Yes, absolutely 💯

[@alokmukherjee8160]

Thank you for this wonderful and important conversation.

[@rohanxdavis]

Nikita is spot on 👌🏾

[@ae.ron-men_ezes]

Thank you.

[@ae.ron-men_ezes]

want to read more on her research. any links?

[@akshayde]

​@@ae.ron-men_ezeslook her firm up on google, there are a bunch of things to read

[@chocochoco5186]

respect to this lady. proud marathi

[@escapistreader3860]

Wonderful😊

[@kaushikisapahia6759]

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@manutrivedi5771]

I don’t understand Nikita’s angst? She’s had the best education in school. No one discriminated against her. She still used reservation to get into Xaviers. She’s well spoken and intelligent. I am sure she will be welcome in any organisation. So why such angst? Or is she Farris to take on the world on a level playing field?

[@manutrivedi5771]

Why doesn’t the guy button his shirt. It’s so disrespectful to the audience.

[@rahulroy898]

4:08 min. It's funny how a discussion on caste starts with hailing Gandhianism( despite Gandhi having staunch casteist beliefs) and demonising Savarkar( despite him being an anti-caste figure). The appropriation of Ambedkar by the left doesn't seem to end.

[@kanishk5962]

It wasn't even hailing. He was just naming (*sigh)

[@rahulroy898]

@@kanishk5962 "great ism's of 20th century" that sounds hailing to me. I wonder if he would consider "hindutva" as a great ism. Obviously not.

[@anuragkhattak3230]

Savarkar was never Anti caste. All he wanted was non-savaranas to be foot soldiers of sangh.

[@kanishk5962]

@@anuragkhattak3230 true. He held ceremonies in which Dalits were given janeus to wear, but he praised the caste system all his life. Ambedkar once reprimanded him for his two sidedness in a letter

[@rahulroy898]

@@kanishk5962 Ambedkar's views on Savarkar predominantly comes out as positive from his writings in Janata magazine & even his books. Again not sure what are your sources for these wild assumptions. The only disagreement he had with Savarkar was on his views on hindu-muslims living under the same roof which Ambedkar thought could never happen. How about u stop cherry-picking & appropriating historical figures especially those whose views are well documented.