Dalit Camera: Through Un-Touchable Eyes Dalit Camera interviewed Munavath Sriramulu, an Adivasi student in the German department of, EFLU, on the persecution he had been subjected to by the university administration for nearly two years. You’ll find an earlier interview of Sriramulu, conducted right after the tragic death of Mudasir Kamran, in the second part …
Raju Pulyala’s martyrdom: Ambedkar Students Association appeals to all students
[Via Prashant Kamla] Ambedkar Students Association (ASA), University of Hyderabad, appeals to all SC, ST, OBC and Minorities students and Dalit students organisations in various universities all over the India to condemn and show their resentment against this systemic killing of Scheduled Caste students in University of Hyderabad. Till what point of time they …
First ever poetry collection on lives of Dalit women launched in Delhi
Rajeev R Singh A unique collection of Hindi poetry was launched in Delhi. It’s the 1st ever collection of poetry about the lives and struggles of Dalit & Adivasi women – by 65 young poets of the democratic tradition. (Editors: Anita Bharti & Bajrang Bihari Tiwari). There was a different kind of excitement and …
An open letter to the EFL Community from Teachers’ Front for Justice and Democracy
We write this to clarify certain positions regarding the formation of TFJD. While it is not our intention to target individuals or make polemical statements we want to express our views on the recent issues on campus. The Teacher’s Association’s Involvement in the current Academic and Administrative Deadlock on Campus * A general body meeting …
Fact Finding Report on Mudasir Kamran Mallah’s Death: Bahujan Intellectual’s Collective
We Demand Proctor Harish Vijra Must Be Immediately Arrested and Prosecuted A team of Bahujan Intellectual’s Collective and other forums formed a Fact Finding Team and visited the English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU) campus on March 5, to enquire into the suicide of a Ph.D. scholar Mudasir Kamran on March 2. This is …
Statement in support of the struggle for justice for Mudasir Kamran
[Via Ravi Chandran] March 11, 2013. We express our solidarity with the ongoing struggle of the students of the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad following the unfortunate suicide of Mudasir Kamran, a PhD student at the University, on March 02, 2013. We are dismayed at the insensitivity with which the University administration has handled the situations that …
First as Tragedy, Then as Farce: The color of Kashmiri Blood in a Hyderabad Campus
Achuth Ajit & Ria De English, the language of a united collective; but also a language that found itself wanting today, as if unable to express the most basic of needs, the most just of demands. Of all days today English was at its banal best. As if clichés had eaten into it, gnawed the …
British Asians Rally to Outlaw Caste Based Discrimination in the UK
British Asians Rally to Outlaw Caste Based Discrimination in the UK In Parliament Square, Westminster, London, SW1P 3AA On Monday, 4th March, 2013 Background
She is not Nirbhaya from Delhi..
Joshua Isaac On 3rd January, 2013, Kalki, a I year Intermediate student of Vanur village, Villupuram district, Tamil Nadu, left her house at 3 pm to attend to nature’s call in a nearby casuarina grove.