For An Informed Ambedkar Age
Grasim Soni I was in the admin office when I first saw it. There it was in all its glory, a letter of recommendation. Printed on crisp university letterhead, carefully worded and full of praise for her commitment to social justice issues and her work around caste and religion in South Asia. The candidate that …
Neeraj Bunkar Phule—a film directed by Ananth Mahadevan faced significant opposition from Brahmanical ideologues. The film chronicles the revolutionary lives of Jyotiba and Savitribai Phule, whose fight against caste oppression and gender inequality remains strikingly relevant. A Historical Canvas with Contemporary Resonance The film opens in 1897, Poona, during the bubonic plague, with an elderly …
Ruth Chawngthu 2024 was quite a year, to say the least! We witnessed multiple genocides and chaos fuelled by capitalistic demands being broadcast on social media. On our phones, we saw headless children in Palestine, mass graves in Congo due to the demand for “blood minerals,” brutality and deaths in Manipur, atrocities against minorities and …
Aniruddha Mahajan The month of December commemorates the death anniversaries of two leading social reformers and anti-caste crusaders in India – Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar and Sant Gadge Baba. While a considerable number of studies and discussions have examined the groundbreaking contributions of these two prominent figures in both global and regional contexts, the nature …
Ronki Ram is ICCR Chair Professor of Contemporary India Studies, Leiden University Institute for Area Studies & IIAS, Leiden University, The Netherlands.
The police firing and subsequent killing of five OBC Muslims in Bhajanpur village in Forbesganj of Araria district in Bihar on June 3, 2011 has been analyzed in most reports in the public sphere through the frame of ‘communalism’ and there has been little effort to grapple with the other dimensions that the event entails. …
The police firing and subsequent killing of five OBC Muslims in Bhajanpur village in Forbesganj of Araria district in Bihar on June 3, 2011 has been analyzed in most reports in the public sphere through the frame of ‘communalism’ and there has been little effort to grapple with the other dimensions that the event entails. …
The police firing and subsequent killing of five OBC Muslims in Bhajanpur village in Forbesganj of Araria district in Bihar on June 3, 2011 has been analyzed in most reports in the public sphere through the frame of ‘communalism’ and there has been little effort to grapple with the other dimensions that the event entails. …
The police firing and subsequent killing of five OBC Muslims in Bhajanpur village in Forbesganj of Araria district in Bihar on June 3, 2011 has been analyzed in most reports in the public sphere through the frame of ‘communalism’ and there has been little effort to grapple with the other dimensions that the event entails. …