Kaavish Post

The last few days have been hailed as what amount to be an achievement of identity politics in India, Droupadi Murmu, a Tribal woman, was elected as the 15 th President of India. It is for the first time that a Tribal or what we can say an indigenous person has become the first person of the country. But what comes after this is an appreciation and glorification of the victimhood of the first person. The whole politics of the oppositions have been divided into many stands some stating it as tokenism, others as the emancipation of the marginalized, and rest either confused to support because of her identity or not to support because of her party. The third stand is what is needed to be explored because it is the point that always brings us to a dead end, identity pessimism. What happens here is that they neither fully accept the criticism of their politics nor can criticize when the exploiters and oppressors are from the same identity. The loop goes on and in between what they do is tr

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