Organized byCentre for Social Justice and Governance, TISS, MumbaiInsight Foundation, Delhi&Dalit & Tribal Social Work International CollectiveLibrary Conference Hall, TISS, Mumbai15th -16th February, 2013
Why EFLU has gone back on Delivering Social Justice?
[Via Shanker Sampangi] Caste signifies social deprivation in the society and disability signifies physical and psychological deprivation. The condition of disability is prone to double oppression in the case of socially deprived sections including women. The layers of oppression need to be seriously understood and enough care should be taken to provide appropriate provisions …
The question of casteism still remains
K. Satyanarayana The controversy around Ashis Nandy’s casual remarks at the Jaipur Literature Festival did not address a number of important questions of public concern. The frenzied ‘Save Nandy’ campaign that followed has actually foreclosed any productive discussion. His supporters have been trying to explain and contextualise Professor Nandy’s flippant remarks through references to …
Caste Violence against Women
via Rupali Bansode National Workshop on Caste Violence Against Women: Voices of Victimhood and Voices of Resistance: Jan 25th – 26th
The cold glint of saffron madness is upon us
Dr. Sylvia Karpagam (Please read an earlier article in Round Table India by Gee Ameena Suleiman for background information on the brutal eviction of poor residents from EWS quarters in Ejipura, Bengaluru, by the government) The day before yesterday, women and activists screamed as the bulldozers advanced. The intent was single-minded – to raze …
Appeal for support for EWS group facing eviction in Ejipura, Bangalore
Gee Ameena Suleiman Urban Deprived Communities in Bangalore: Rally to EWS quarters to claim their share in the city and challenge the Corporate Land Grab! Please stand by our brothers and sisters in Ejipura’s EWS quarters in their critical hour of need. In a single day, today, hundreds of their homes have been razed to the ground …
Ambedkar Memorial Lecture – 2013
Ambedkar Memorial Lecture – 2013 On ‘Exhumation of Society and Culture in Ancient India’ Speaker: Prof. Nandu Ram (Former Dean, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University) 13th January, Sunday, 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm Convention Centre, Naoroji Campus, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar had a deep sense of …
Students burn Manusmriti on Manusmriti Dahan Diwas in University of Hyderabad
[Via Anji Vikarabad] On December 25th, 2012, students in University of Hyderabad, led by the Ambedkar Students’ Association (ASA), burnt a copy of the Manusmriti in the campus, which they called the ‘most notorious’, ‘barbaric’ religious text ever produced. 25th December is an auspicious day in the history of Dalitbahujan struggles because it was on …
Condemn this Ram’s Rajya: Dalit-Bahujan Scholars, University of Hyderabad
Dalit-Bahujan Scholars The Vice Chancellor, University of Hyderabad, Prof. Ramakrishna Ramaswamy has signed and forwarded the “expert” recommendations – that tacitly fiddles with the existing norms governing the recruitment and promotion policies of faculty in the Department of Communication, S.N. School – to the UGC. These suggestions, when passed by the UGC and if …