Papers by Suvradeep Banerjee
The paper deals with the Dalit women of Bengal, and their literary works. It examines their place... more The paper deals with the Dalit women of Bengal, and their literary works. It examines their place in the Dalit literature and in the socio-political scenario of Bengal. It proposes a modified view of leadership, using the lens of Dalit feminism and Feminist leadership, to be inclusive of the triple-marginalized members of the society. Literature review has identified the absence of substantiate literary work by Dalit women of Bengal, compared to other regions of India. Due to a dearth of literature, as translation and part of mainstream reading, from the women of this community, there is limited understanding of their experiences on a large scale in India. It also draws from the history of Feminist movement in India, to mark the discriminatory actions meted-out against Dalit women in India and existing at present in Bengal. Within the community itself, the role of leadership has been existing with caste and patriarchal politics. The study found that social transformation will have m...
In these hard times, when the world is plunged into the nightmare of COVID – 19, it has become im... more In these hard times, when the world is plunged into the nightmare of COVID – 19, it has become important for the research fields, across the globe, to understand its different impacts and future consequences, which are inevitable in the aftermath of the situation. Research, in different fields, has been focussed on understanding the different aspects of epidemic and pandemic to revise the old strategies and frame better ones. With the idea of studying the social aspect of the present pandemic, this paper deals with the idea of ‘community’ and its emergence in such events. Its primary focus is on the ‘local’ truths within the singular nation, which do not equate to the slogan ‘stay happy, stay safe’, when the variables of class and gender are incorporated. The work also provides information to present the case of ‘toxic speech’ that leads to divisive state within this community; whereby majority experiences the community power over minority. It discusses the said binary not in terms ...
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Papers by Suvradeep Banerjee