Project Work/s
The genesis of my interdisciplinary projects lies in lived experiences, the weight of history, and a profound reckoning with the structures that govern our world. They emerge from the silent moments of alienation that lingered in classrooms where caste was footnoted but never spoken, where decolonisation was a trend rather than an ethical commitment, and where voices like mine were expected to translate pain but not theorise.
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These projects are not merely academic pursuits but acts of reclamation and resistance, anti-caste interventions that challenge the deeply entrenched hierarchies shaping knowledge and society. They unfold across varied formats, research work, artistic expressions, talks, workshops, and interactive sessions, each embodying an insistence to rupture the neat packaging of knowledge into 'acceptable' forms. Through this plurality, I aim to dismantle the brahmanical scaffolding of what we consider valid knowledge while amplifying the whispers of histories too inconvenient to archive.
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I began these initiatives not as a scholar with all the answers but as someone seeking to hold space for questions—questions that challenge the unmarked privileges of caste, the violent nationalism that erases difference, and the colonised gaze that lingers in our minds and curricula. The intent is not to merely critique but to construct: to foster reflective, decolonised, and anti-caste understandings of the present by recognising its entanglements with the past.
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My motivation stems from the urgent need to counter erasure, to interrogate the silences that surround caste and nationalism in academic, social, and cultural spaces. This is not just about 'diversifying' the narrative but about exposing how power weaponises the singular, the universal, and the objective. It is about insisting on multiplicity, on the complexity of being, and on the refusal to be complicit.
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In this work, I weave the personal with the political, the historical with the contemporary, acknowledging that to engage with caste and nationalism is to bear witness to both the profound resilience of marginalised communities and the tenacity of the structures that oppress them. My hope is that through these anti-caste and decolonial endeavours, we can begin to imagine—and create—a world where knowledge serves not as a tool of domination but as a catalyst for liberation
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Jai Bhimजय à¤à¥€à¤® !
