For An Informed Ambedkar Age
Anshul Kumar If one were to attempt to comprehend Plato and Descartes’ philosophical thoughts one thing that is worth acknowledging is that religions of the world associate people with either immaterial souls or pure egos. From this perspective, people have bodies only contingently, not necessarily, so they can live after bodily death. Etymologically identity comes …
Anoop Kumar I believe every educational institution in this country, especially the so called ‘national’ ones have been deliberately designed in a way to exclude the majority of Indians and to term them as ‘non meritorious’ at the expense of a very small upper caste English speaking elite. It is a conspiracy. It is …
सुजित निकाळजे (Sujit Nikalje) “शिक्षण हे वाघिणीचे दुध आहे तो जो प्राषण करील तो गुरगुरल्या शिवाय राहणार नाही.”- डॉक्टर बाबासाहेब आंबेडकर, हि गुरगुर म्हणजे तरी काय या देशात होणाऱ्या अन्याया/अत्याचारा विरुद्ध आवाज उठवणे, स्वताच्या न्याय हक्कासाठी आवाज उठवणे, लोकांच्या ज्वलंत प्रश्नांवर बोलणे त्याच्यावर आवाज उठवणे, लोकांच्या स्वातंत्र्य, समता, बंधुभाव आणि सामाजिक न्याय मिळविण्यासाठी प्रयत्न …
BAPSA BAPSA’s President, Bhupali Vitthal Magare and two other BAPSA activists, Rahul Sonpimple and Praveen Thallapelli have been academically suspended and debarred from hostels by the JNU VC/Admin along with other students, Dawa Sherpa, Dillip Yadav, Mulayam Singh, Dillip Kumar, Virendra, Sakeel Anjum, Prashant Nihal, for organising protest outside Academic Council (AC) Meeting on …
Dharmaraj Kumar Remembering Vidrohiji on his first death anniversary, I write this piece as a memoir. There are layers of memories, but it unfolds on the horizon of reminiscence through several repetitions of certain events. Vidrohiji may not have been remembered by many, but for many his absence is sorely missed. Just being one …
Gerard Baared [The long exit from Hinduism/Brahmanism for the ‘untouchables’ is naturally an ongoing movement, given the scale of the task, the multiple levels of responsibilities to understand, process and communicate people’s aspirations regarding their rights, and the complex logistic factors to be dealt with. The term exit predicates an imagined or real inclusion, …
Vinod Kumar The world is moving in a new direction in its political spectrum. Most of the old, developed democracies have come under the influence of the right wing forces with populist images where people are drawn towards personalities and emotions rather than facts and good policies. Recently, this changing political dimension has been …
Sukanya Shantha On Friday, a friend and I walked into a movie hall to watch an American romantic musical, La La Land. Enticed by the cinematic beauty and the dreamy two hours spent in the cinema hall, I walked out feeling empathetic towards actor Ryan Gosling’s character Sebastian, a white American, who among several …
Akash Poyam When I was first enrolled in school my parents named me ‘Akash Kumar’, this remained until middle school when it was changed to ‘Akash Kumar Prasad’ and it had since then continued. After using ‘Poyam’ for almost a year on social media, I finally decided to officially change it. I belong …