For An Informed Ambedkar Age
AIISCA Statement on the Defeat of Ambedkarite Dalit Parties in the 2024 General Elections Alongside economic injustice, unemployment, and the conventional Hindu-Muslim binary, the 2024 general elections were primarily fought around the ‘Social Justice’ narrative. The opposition alliance (INDIA alliance) led by Congress campaigned on the narrative that “if the BJP came to power with …
Book Review: “Babasaheb My Life with Dr. Ambedkar” by Dr. Savita Ambedkar translated from the Marathi by Nadeem Khan Rajesh Chandra Kumar & Vinay Damodar Dr. Savita Ambedkar, formerly known as Dr. Sharada Kabir, was born into a middle-class Saraswat Brahmin family and met Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar while he was a patient suffering from a …
Chanchal Kumar Leaving Delhi. Won’t start by saying it was bad. It was good, in that I survived. Delhi is like a festering wound that stops to plug. Every time I have to visit it, I hope it will be better than the last time. But no. Anyway, Delhi could be slightly better if: Water …
Round Table India Maruthi N is pursuing BA, LLB in Bhaskar Law College, Moinabad, Telangana. He is a Dalit student belonging to a Scheduled Caste. Due to financial constraints he is being deprived of an opportunity of becoming a law graduate which he had secured through long years of hard work. Our humble request is …
Anjali Shreshth In April 2010, the Dalit members of Banka, a remote village in the Lakhimpur Kheri district of Uttar Pradesh in northern India, inaugurated a unique temple. The temple was symbolic not because of a mythical history attached to it but rather because it was symbolic of the reclaiming of agency—social and political—by the …
Naveen Prasad Alex Who is a Chrisanghi Chrisanghis is a term that recently came into use for Syrian Christians who share with sections from other religious groups the common hatred of Muslims, predominantly in Kerala. Efforts by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to increase their stake in Kerala’s legislative …
~ Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man A Touch Your ancestors Forced my ancestors, To drag their dead animals, To skin them and cut them, Eat the dead animal meat, Cheap protein they would say — Animals which were fed Milk, ghee, curd and buttermilk. Your ancestors For years, became ‘impure’ after death. Your ancestors Won’t touch …
Round Table India Govathoti Sudhitha is a student of BSc (Nutrition and Dietetics) at St. Francis College, Hyderabad. She completed her undergraduate studies in the same Course with a CGPA of 7.9. She’s currently pursuing MSc in Nutrition and Dietetics in the same college and and has completed her first year. Her father’s ambition is …
Abdul Najeeb Noorul Ameen The American philosopher Abi Doukhan makes an interesting observation in her book on the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas. She states that the word ethics is derived from the Greek word ethos. The ethos pertains to the customs and principles of a society. The concept of the ethical refers to those actions …