The warfare that torpedoed Africa saw regular people as the harshest victims. In some cases, they were the marginalised groups who were left asunder by the dominant ruling class. The African story needs a clear and non-dogmatic reading of the conflict and anthropology of social classes.
Dr. Yengde has published peer-reviewed articles in interdisciplinary journals.
He is a syndicated columnist with many publications across the world.
Dr. Yengde has published over 150 essays, articles, and book reviews in multiple languages in academic and non-academic journals in the field of caste, race, labor, and migration in the global south and, ethnicity studies.
His writings and essays have appeared in many renowned publications like Ethnic & Racial Studies, Economic & Political Weekly, Al Jazeera, BBC, and The Caravan among others.
Dr. Yengde writes fortnightly columns for The Indian Express and is a syndicated columnist at The Hindustan Times, The Hindu, The Huffington Post, The Print, The Citizen, Globe & Post, The Mexican Times and The Conversation.
Thinking Beyond Gender Binaries
01.03.2025
Binary is also the demonstration of our limitations that we are unable to explore beyond the liminal vantage. Binary is a departure from the conditioned acceptability to brave our choices.
What Does It Mean To Be In Love?
14.02.2025
To be in love is to check one’s mortality and start with the quiver of optimism. Here is an exploration of the state of being in love from Outlook’s Valentine’s Day special issue
Apart from presenting unique recipes, this book also offers a critique of food and through it, an accurate analysis of Indian society
Review: Dalithan by KK Kochu
07.12.2024
The literary critic and activist KK Kochu’s memoir, translated from the original Malayalam, shows that, despite the communist revolution in Kerala.
A Family History of Dalit Food
05.11.2024
Suraj Yengde recalls his childhood horror of mealtimes while growing up in a budget-conscious Dalit household, and how he now looks favourably on a diet that once appalled.
Review_Within Reason Sandro Galea
29.10.2024
Galea is an advocate of liberal thought, in science and rationalism that emerged from the European Enlightenment. Similar thoughts existed in the Buddhist canon too, and in the enlightenment led by subaltern caste saints and seers of medieval India.
Social Classes of Global Castes
17.10.2024
Inequality is a catchphrase for developmental and welfare economics. It has also become a rallying call for social and political justice. Inequality is not a condition, but it is a state that has been maintained by various forces who also despise inequality but embrace it partially as it benefits their goals.
We’ve spent important policy dossiers on understanding inequity through the dialectical partnership of economy and politics. What if public policy memos are themselves ingrained with retaining the biases of elite reproduction through social classes? The public portfolio of those who are responsible for articulating the understanding of society is filled with apprehensions of the historical Other.
Kenya has seemingly inspired its neighbouring nations in the region. With an aggressively pro-capitalist economy, it was an eyesore for neighbours like Tanzania, where Julius Nyerere (anti-colonial activist who later became the Prime Minister) took the socialist path.