For An Informed Ambedkar Age
Charan Mahananda Based on the author’s experience, this article describes what happens when caste discrimination occurs within Scheduled Caste families in the Ganda and Ghasi communities. There are social ranks, and as a consequence, some people are shut out, and their burial is postponed; special purity ceremonies are held, and the community sometimes punishes intercaste …
Kangsa Manlong There’s a pain that doesn’t just live inside your bones—it lives in your tongue, in your name, in the way you look at your land and no longer recognize it. I write this with the full weight of that pain. Not just mine, but of so many who have been silenced, mocked, erased—not …
Karthik Navayan To, Complaint Procedure Unit – Human Rights Council Branch OHCHR – Palais Wilson United Nations Office at Geneva CH-1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland, Email: cp@ohchr.org @UN_HRC @IndiaUNNewYork @UN Subject: Stop Extrajudicial Killings in Operation Kagar: Urge UN Investigation into Adivasi Deaths in India 1. The Indian government’s Operation Kagar, launched in January 2024 …
Lokesh Bag A pattern appears almost every time someone from a marginalized community raises their voice. It doesn’t matter how deep the pain is or how much evidence they carry; if the tone is not soft enough, it gets rejected. It becomes more pronounced when the person is a Dalit. This is tone policing—silencing disguised …
Vaibhav Kharat The pensive protest at the Mahabodhi Temple in Bodhgaya reveals the extensive structural discrepancies in India’s religious and media outlook. While Buddhists rightfully demand legitimate control over one of their holiest space, the dominant mainstream media, including television channels, newspapers, radio news, and even widely followed independent digital YouTube, Podcast, audio-video broadcasting platforms …
Milind X Before the reader gets on with this essay, I have to say, that I have been admitted to the RINPAS (Ranchi Institute of Neuro-Psychiatry and Allied Sciences) wards a total of 4 times over the years. So the reader must assume they’re reading something by a somewhat “sane” person. Additionally, they should ignore …
Monseng Borborua I am Ahom. I am a practitioner of Phuralung, the religion of my ancestors. I was stupid enough to be Hindu before, but I did my “ghar wapsi”, and I hope my Tai brothers would soon too, do a ghar wapsi, back into their original religion instead of following an imported religion. In …
Irshad Ali Naharwad I am writing this on 17th April 2024 when the UPSC CSE final results were announced. The Indian administrative services is my childhood dream, it is the most prestigious job in India with last year’s selection ratio of 0.07%. I left my pre-medical preparation for it, switched from sciences to humanities, and …
Kuldip Chand Dobhetta The day-by-day deteriorating conditions of Dalits living in India, who have been given the names Ati-Shudra, Untouchable, Ad-Dharmi, Moolnivasi, etc. have become a matter of concern. Dalits were identified as oppressed groups during British rule and have been classified as Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes in the Indian Constitution. According to the Manuvadi system, …