For An Informed Ambedkar Age
S Kumar Rohith Chakravarti Vemula (30 January 1989 – 18 January 2016) was a PhD student at the Central University of Hyderabad and his suicide on 18 Jan 2016 sparked an outrage throughout India, highlighting the cases of systemic discrimination in educational campuses across India. Many cases of caste atrocities have been reported recently. …
Essay series on ‘What Babasaheb Ambedkar Means to me’ Madhura Raut It was neither my family nor my school that introduced Ambedkar to me. It was because of my friends, either classmates or facebook friends that I got introduced to Babasaheb Ambedkar. It is a fact that I never felt a strong connection with Babasaheb, …
Naveed Ahmad Lone Introduction Some are born great; some have greatness thrust upon them, and some achieve greatness. Dr Ambedkar best fits in the third category. Dr Baba Saheb Bhimrao Ambedkar is among the most outstanding intellectuals of India in the twentieth century. The work in economics by his good self is noteworthy. Dr …
Pranav Kuttaiah Caste is not a Rumour: The Online Diary of Rohith Vemula (Ed. Nikhila Henry, Juggernaut Books, 2016) In a speech delivered at Nalgonda in Telangana not so long ago, noted intellectual K.Y. Ratnam said that what Rohith Vemula wrote was not a suicide note, but an introduction to Dr. Ambedkar’s classic ‘Annihilation …
Payal Rama Nagpur is the winter capital and the third largest city in the state of Maharashtra. It is also one of the prominent cities in Central India. Before the formation of the state of Maharashtra, Nagpur was part of the state of Madhya Pradesh. Under the British rule, it was one of the …
BAPSA JNU, New Delhi Remembering Dharti Aba Birsa Munda on 15th Nov Remembering the Foundation Day of BAPSA Intensifying Struggle of Justice for Najeeb The class was going on as usual in the German Mission School at Burj, Chaibasa. A teacher named Dr Nottrott repeatedly uttered derogatory words against the Mundas. A boy left …
Gurram Seetaramulu Nationalism is a hymn which is being chanted often by the modern societies. Especially in India, after the demolition of Babri Masjid such a notion has gained currency. At the same time, some groups have been trying to monopolise nationalism. In such a situation, nationalism has turned into an abstract thought called …
आशा सिंह कई दिनों से देख रही हूँ कि हमारे दलित-बहुजन साथी लीना यादव की फिल्म Parched की तारीफ कर रहे हैं। मेरे इस आलेख का आधार इस फिल्म की विषयवस्तु और इसके निर्देशक का साक्षात्कार है (देखें National Dastak, You Tube)।i फिल्म लज्जो, बिजली, रानी नामक तीन तथाकथित ‘ग्रामीण’ महिला किरदारों की कहानी है। लज्जो ‘बाँझ’ है, …
पुष्पेंद्र जौहर सितम्बर 2010 में कश्मीर के रहने वाले एक ख़ास मित्र मुझसे हिजबुल मुजाहिदीन जैसे स्थानीय मिलिटेंट संघठनो द्वारा युवा कश्मीरियों की हाल में की गयी भर्ती के नतीजों पर चर्चा कर रहे थे। शुरूआती दिनों से लेकर 1990 में अपनी पराकाष्ठा तक पहुंची मिलिटेंसी की पृष्ठभूमि में हो रही उस …