For An Informed Ambedkar Age
Misritha Arvapally The recent mass sterilisation drive in Dhar district of Madhya Pradesh has again revealed the enduring continuities between the family-planning tradition of India and the long history of forced population control in this country. Almost 180 Adivasi women, their children, and other family members were called to a camp in the Bagh Community …
Dr Neeraj Bunkar, Mahesh Admankar The Movement’s Origins — and What We Didn’t Know The Cockroach Janta Party emerged as a satirical response to a controversial remark attributed to Chief Justice of India Surya Kant Sharma, who, during a court hearing on May 15, 2026, compared unemployed youth involved in social media, journalism, or RTI …
Subhasree Nayak One early morning in the …
Anusha Racheti “Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy.” – B. R. Ambedkar, Speech to the Constituent Assembly, 25 November 1949. This warning by Ambedkar reminds us that democracy is not just about institutions or elections, but about whether people can truly speak and be heard. In many …
Somnath Das The Special Intensive Revision of the state’s voter list left Bangladeshi immigrants in acute panic in a Purba Bardhaman hamlet, and those working in cities were unsure about whether their identity documents were adequate and whether they might be forced to move again. ‘Will they say we have to leave India?’ Immigrants from …
Abhishek Kumar Singh Iconoclast by Anand Teltumbde is a timely book that has arrived when political jostling for Ambedkar’s legacy has become a feature of Indian politics. This book analyses Ambedkar’s life and presents him as a pragmatist rather than a sanctified figure. Meticulously researched, detailed, and yet accessible to all readers, the book offers …
Jatin Mathur Recently, the UGC mandated protective guidelines against caste discrimination in higher educational institutions. These regulations stem from a 2019 petition in the Apex Court filed by the mothers of Payal Tadvi and Rohith Vemula, which raised concerns over the 2012 equity regulations. Unlike the 2012 regulations—which were advisory, did not address action against …
Dr B Karthik Navayan The Communist Party of India (Maoist) has always presented itself as the fiercest enemy of caste oppression. Its programme promises to annihilate caste through a protracted people’s war. Yet, as Operation Kagar (launched 21 April 2025) races toward the March 2026 deadline to wipe out Left-Wing Extremism, the party is collapsing …
Shruti Botre Anthropological accounts of tribal communities have largely provided working definitions of the term’ tribe,’ which have often been specific to their site of study. Given that tribes differ considerably in terms of their population size, mode of livelihood and level of integration within the capitalist economy, there is huge differentiation, for example, in …