Sanjay Jothe रहस्य रोमांच के बहाने मनोरंजन की तलाश करते समाजों या लोगों पर कभी गौर कीजिये गजब के परिणाम हाथ लगेंगे। रहस्य और चमत्कार तो खैर अतिरंजित बाते हैं, सामान्य मनोरंजन के चुनाव की प्रवृत्ति भी पूरे समाज के मनोविज्ञान को नंगा करने के लिए काफी है। किस तरह के टीवी सीरियल्स और …
The Republic at a crossroads
Deepak Kumar On 26th January 1950, India became a sovereign, socialist, secular and democratic republic. On that day, the Constitution of India was enacted, adopted and given to the Indian people i.e., “we the people of India”. The birth of the Republic on the twenty sixth of January 1950 was a moment of equal, …
Brahminical Patriarchy and Social Media
Bhagyesha Kurane Social media has become an integral part of our lives these days. There are various notions prevalent about whether one should use social media, and if at all it is to be used, then how. Some people view social media only as a tool to pass their time and beyond a certain limit, …
Caste of a Mirror: Caste in Hindi Cinema
Manish Gautam As the old adage goes, cinema is the mirror of society, but one can delve much deeper into this question: does cinema merely reflect what is visible (or not visible) in society or does it extend far and wide and deeper into that parallel world consisting of the people who are writing …
Presenting Angela Davis, the Savarna Style
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 …
What’s in a surname? Reflections on Adivasis’ history of Northern Chhattisgarh
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 …
एक भीमपुत्री की इंसाफ की लड़ाई
भंवर मेघवंशी एक दलित शिक्षिका का सुलगता सवाल: क्या हम अपनी बेटियों के साथ बलात्कार होने का इन्तजार करें ? यह जलता हुआ सवाल राजस्थान के पाली जिले की एक दलित शिक्षिका का है, जो कस्तूरबा गाँधी आवासीय विद्यालय सोजत सिटी की संस्था प्रधान है | शोभा चौहान नामकी यह सरकारी अध्यापिका एक बहादुर सैनिक …
सामाजिक आंदोलन व् स्त्री शिक्षा: डॉ अम्बेडकर और उनकी दृष्टि
रितेश सिंह तोमर (Ritesh Singh Tomer) आधुनिक भारत के संविधान की प्रारूप समिति के अध्यक्ष व् सम्पूर्ण संविधान के निर्माण का हिस्सा रहे भारत रत्न भीम राव अम्बेडकर राजनैतिक व् सामाजिक हलकों में अपने कई अविस्मरणीय योगदानों के लिए स्मरण किये जाते हैं । लोकतांत्रिक राष्ट्र की स्थापना हेतु आधुनिक व् प्रकर्ति में पंथ …
Rise of BSP and Dalit Politics in U.P.
Saquib Salim “In 1962-63, when I got the opportunity to read Ambedkar’s book, Annihilation of Caste, then I also felt that it is perhaps possible to eradicate casteism from the society. But, later on when I studied caste system and its behaviour in depth gradually there was a modification in my thoughts. I have …