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Literature, film, music, art, digital culture; Ambedkarite and Buddhist religious politics as caste-exit.
A paper presented at this year's ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency argues that the standard method for auditing text-to-image models for caste bias, checking one demographic category at a time, measures the wrong thing.
A Sahitya Akademi-winning Tamil writer who spent his career naming caste and land in the state's dry southern districts has died. Most of the world that knows his work at all knows it through a 2019 film. The novel underneath deserves its own reading.
A new book asks what is left over when a story about a Dalit woman is neither an atrocity report nor an inspiration reel. That question is the book's argument before a single chapter is read.
A New York exhibition space once ran a public program on an archive of Dalit Panther print material: posters, little magazines, poetry, most of it uncatalogued outside private shelves. A movement's own ephemera and a later historian's synthesis are different kinds of document, and they do not always agree.
Tamil cinema's anti-caste filmmakers built their own institutions and audiences before Mumbai noticed — calling that a 'crossover' gets the story backwards.