Status Updates From Republic of Caste: Thinking...

Tough read as someone who doesn’t know too much about the history or current state of caste in India but so eye opening and disturbing.

"The swamp that is electoral politics has sucked in scores of well-meaning people, turning them into custodians of the very system they were trying to upend."

"It is one thing to acquire political power through people's struggle and quite another to get it by allying with the existing powers. The former is an earning while the latter is alms."

Loving the analysis in here, feels so applicable in many contexts: "isms tend to be premised on something that worked in the past. They are of questionable value in an era characterized by rapid change."

So excited to finally make time to read this! Just from the introduction alone my brain is on fire