![]() ![]() ![]() More than a decade since, Hussain and others from his community have found a way to take the derogatory term Miya and subvert it.ĭespite the low levels of literacy prevalent in the community – the most recent government survey in 2003 found that the average literacy rate on the chars was 19 percent, compared with the state average of 54 percent – a growing number of younger people from Hussain’s community are pursing higher education in English and working in academia, NGOs, medicine and law. “I realised there was a divide between us and other Assamese.” ![]() These kind of informal evictions happen often, but it was the first time I saw one,” he says. “The Assamese students at Cotton College participated very actively in forcefully evicting them. “In 2005, the annual floods displaced many people from the chars and they started settling in temporary shelters on the pavements of Guwahati,” he recalls, sitting cross-legged on a thin mattress in his sparsely furnished two-room flat in Delhi’s Muslim-majority residential area of Zakir Nagar, close to Jamia Millia Islamia University, where he is pursuing a PhD in English literature. But at the prestigious Cotton College in the state capital of Guwahati, where his relatively well-to-do parents had sent him for higher education, he quickly learned how many in Assam see his community. Growing up on one of Assam’s more than 2,000 chars, or river islands, where 85 percent of the population consists of Muslims of Bengali origin, Hussain felt safe. The prejudice against Muslims of Bengali origin, a community which remains largely impoverished, has led not only to abusive language but recurring communal violence as well. Send us feedback about these examples.WATCH: Strife in India’s Assam rooted in poverty (2:39) These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'subvert.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. 2023 With the Senate now joining the House in the rejection, and Biden presumably set to finish the task, the rule of a government overseeing 700,000 residents has been wholly subverted by the federal government. 2023 Rashid riffs on colonial printmaking and Toranzo Jaeger subverts the symbolism of the car - but both engage historical forms to imagine fantastical futures. Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, For a gentler take on subverting familiar romance forms, try the first volume in Liana De la Rosa’s new historical series, ANA MARÍA AND THE FOX (Berkley, 352 pp., paperback, $17). Jacqui Palumbo, CNN, The unscripted series launched in 2021 after filming in a pandemic-era bubble on the Cayman Islands and was filled with twists amid the team’s goal to subvert reality audience expectations. ![]() Kenny Herzog, Vulture, 2 June 2023 An incomplete legacy The decade following Axell’s death saw the emergence of a number of women artists who unabashedly expressed female sexuality, painting and photographing their own bodies, and subverting erotic or pornographic imagery. Brian Steinberg, Variety, 6 June 2023 Contented as a character actor and always game to subvert his beefcake stature, Marino excels at playing mostly likable putzes who teeter precariously between sympathetic earnestness and manic self-absorption. Cj Blair, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 June 2023 Producers were eager to bring forth a project that subverts many themes often utilized when chronicling people with disabilities, who are often portrayed in inspirational storylines. Recent Examples on the Web Though Congress was scheduled to open a section for Black swimmers, Southern lawmakers subverted this plan by closing the beach altogether in 1925. ![]()
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