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Upper Caste Liberalism with Ravikant Kisana
·1 hr 1 min·6 clips
Ravi Kant argues that Savarna modernity is 'cosplaying'—a knowledge-performing culture, not a knowledge-producing one.
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A sharp conversation about caste, savarna academia, and how dissent gets folded back in.
Ajanta Subramanian and Ravi Kant Kisanath have a sharp, unsparing conversation about caste, academia, and family privilege. The strongest passages follow Kisanath's point that performance-oriented savarna academia can miss caste's deeper structure, and that youthful dissent,…
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For a serious caste conversation that tracks rebellion back into family power.
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