For An Informed Ambedkar Age
Sumit Jambhulkar “The cultivation of the mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence”, remarked the father of the Constitution of India, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar. The community library can be a place of liberation, where a students come and cultivate his mind as well as enhance his intellectual knowledge and develop his personality. Community …
Ankit Ramteke Raja Rao wrote Kanthapura in the 1930s when he was a twenty-one-year-old, living “in a 13th-century old castle in the French Alps belonging to the Dauphins of France” (Naik 60). It was first published in 1938, and since then, starting from E.M. Forster’s famous remark — that it was one of the finest …
Dr. Aniruddha Babar From Blind Idolization to Active Engagement: Ambedkar’s Call for Individual Agency In Democracy’s realm, Ambedkar’s voice resounds, Hero-worship challenged, new paths it bounds. Critical eyes unveil leaders’ true intent, Empowering minds, societal dissent. Injustice crumbles, equality takes flight, Individual agency, shining bright. Ambedkar’s teachings guide the way we tread, A Hero within, …
Subash Barik Karl Marx’s call for workers of the world to unite and break the chains of slavery has failed to excite the workers of the Indian subcontinent to unite. Babasaheb has explained casteism as a state of mind and a notion which builds some invisible walls between groups of men, and even within the …
Anshul Kumar Why is it that popular anti-caste circles and their savarna allies keep on pandering to the idea that inter-caste marriage is a solid step in the direction of breaking (read annihilating) caste structures? This argument is often traced back to Ambedkar and he is cited as a radical who espoused inter-caste marriage as …
Snehashish Das There has been a new shift in Hindi cinema recently. It is not just to acknowledge caste in their films, but in featuring Dalit characters, as cops. Back-to-back, two films and a web series, Bheed, Kathal and Dahaad – released in cinemas (Bheed), on Netflix (Kathal), and on Amazon Prime (Dahaad)- have Dalit …
Ankush Uttam Helode Despite 76 years of independence, India is still facing caste-based problems and discrimination, In rural areas especially small villages, untouchability is still in practice. The mode of caste based discrimination in the urban spaces is changing, however villages are the cesspools in which caste grows in many dimensions. Public places like drinking …
Dr. Abhijit Shahaji Khandkar Poem 1: (Original poem in Marathi) English Translation – Poem 2: Original Poem in Marathi English Translation – ~~~ Dr. Abhijit Shahaji Khandkar is a pathologist and writer with a keen interest in translation. He observes the microcosm world under the lens of his microscope and macrocosm of society with his …
donna Competing ‘merit’ is cultural violence- ‘Merit as pus’[1] On March 29, 2023, the Union Minister of State for Education shared with the Rajya Sabha the number of dropouts among SC, ST, and OBC students in the educational institutions of India. The debate still revolves around the kind of schemes offered and the funds/fee waivers …