Author: Dr.Vaishali Vilas Sonavane
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Survival as Inheritance: The Historical Life of Dalit Women and the Making of Generational Scarcity
(This article examines historically produced survival regimes among Dalit women. Dalit women who have broken these structures and are thriving beyond them will be taken up in a subsequent article.) By Dr. Vaishali Sonavane Abstract This article examines how survival among Dalit women is historically produced, relationally transmitted, and structurally enforced, creating intergenerational patterns of…
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Integrated Theoretical and Methodological FrameworkPositioning Caste-Based Survival Within Contemporary Trauma Theory
Abstract Contemporary trauma frameworks, such as complex trauma, Disorders of Extreme Stress Not Otherwise Specified (DESNOS), and Cumulative Trauma Disorder (CTD), have established that psychological distress may arise from prolonged and repeated exposure to harm rather than discrete events. However, these models remain insufficiently theorised in relation to social structures that systematically organise exposure to…
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When Rejection Becomes Self‑Betrayal
Unpacking the Trauma Trigger and the Path to Alchemical Healing If this feels familiar, you are not broken When someone hates, ridicules, neglects, rejects, demotivates, devalues, disrespects, disconnects, withdraws, becomes difficult, or punishes you for no visible reason, the pain is not only interpersonal. Something deeper happens inside. You don’t just feel hurt — you…
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The Dalit Brain: How Caste Rewires the Mind, Body, and Future
By Dr. Vaishali Vilas Sonavane Abstract Caste is often framed as a social, cultural, or political system, but emerging neurobiological research reveals that long-term oppression fundamentally reshapes the human nervous system. For Dalits, centuries of humiliation, forced labor, threat of sexual violence, segregation, and caste terror have produced neurobiological adaptations that prioritize survival over safety.…
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The Loop Where We Know Better — But Still Do What Hurts
A compassionate guide to the state where insight exists, but freedom feels out of reach There is a quiet, tender kind of suffering that many people struggle to put into words. This is not the pain of not knowing, but the ache of knowing clearly—and still finding yourself drawn back into the very things you…
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Ease: A Revolutionary Inheritance
A Poem by Dr. Vaishali Sonavane For the Ease Revolution of the Marginalised A Return to What Was Taken Ease is not a privilege — it is a birthright systematically denied to our people. For generations, Dalit communities have been conditioned into relentless labor, survival-mode urgency, and the belief that rest must be earned. This…