I did an event for @HouseOfBelongg with no less a maami than Githa Hariharan, who did a classic micro-aggression by saying I was wandering off, and that writers did not have to talk about their ideological moorings (this was a panel on political fiction). (1/2)

Now I find the talk uploaded, with my response edited out. Pls get the guts to publish the whole video incl my response so that younger writers from Dalit, Bahujan, Adivasi, trans and marginalised backgrounds know what it takes to operate in Brahmin dominated literary fields.

Or take down the fucking damn thing off YouTube. You cannot sanitise Brahminism, the micro-hatred it displays when a marginalised intercaste women writer speaks about being a child of a migrant landless orphan, or about translating a Dalit Panther leader. These are as legitimate

As whatever knowledge that you learnt from your books, or your networks of power, or your aghragarams. We are discussing freedom of expression, we are talking about right to say things---and when I countered her, that bit alone goes missing from a video. How fucking shameful!

There were more than a 100 participants, and you are displaying nothing but casteism and cowardice in editing out my portions of speech just because they call out an older Brahmin writer for invalidating my discussion and inputs on why I write political fiction.

If you were someone who participated in that discussion and witnessed what happened, please amplify this thread. @HouseOfBelongg must not react this in horrible, shameful manner. Yes, women like me took part in street protests, our writing comes from a raw place not a living room

I am not here to be edited.

I am not here to be sanitised and co-opted by Brahminism.

I am not here to wear masks of politeness and less it slip when my influences (VCK, Ambedkar, Communism, my father's poverty) are labelled as "wandering off"

My personal is fucking political